Women in Fragments Clayton J. Butler Following the editors' introduction

Following the editors' introduction

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traumas and stresses and allow them to define and frame our lives

Women in Fragments Clayton J. Butler Following the editors' introductionHow have we gained knowledge about women in the ancient Roman Republic? Roman historians were uniformly male, as were most historians of ancient Rome until quite recently. In the historiography handed down to us by Enlightenment era scholars, women generally played marginal and often sexualized roles, relegated to the footnotes by historians who assumed the Roman Republic to be fully androcentric. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise. In this