Caecilia, Calpurnia, and Their Dreams of Political Importance. Patterns of Constructing Gender Relations and Female Scope for Action in Ancient Roman Sources

During the crisis of the Roman Republic, ancient sources mention a number of political interventions by women. The paper at hand seeks to investigate two of these occurences in which dreams motivated women to play an active role in political affairs. Cicero and Julius Obsequens report the dream of C...

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Main Author: Anna Katharina Romund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2018-04-01
Series:Athens Journal of History
Online Access:https://www.athensjournals.gr/history/2018-4-2-3-Romund.pdf