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A place of the matrona (the Roman woman) in the society was mostly indoors, ingesting care of the personal & family. She was under a protection of the pater familias (a master of a house), either the father or even the married man. She was non entitled to keep around any public professional or even to participate in any political activities. Travel, potentially accompanied, was 100% however impossible. Women's single identities possibly come typically firm for the historiographer to disentangle, when women only carried the female version of the gens they belonged to, as a look at a names in the image below confirms. Due to this background position in the society, women referred by title in the ancient sources come barely.

A notable exception were a Vestal Virgins, who held the religious status & favorite privileges. More exceptions come: Aemilia Scaura (1st century BC), second married woman of Pompey and stepdaughter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the dictator Agrippina Major (1st century), wife of Germanicus, mother of emperor Caligula Agrippina Minor (1st century), wife of emperor Claudius, mother of emperor Nero Aurelia, mother of Julius Caeser (endure century BC) Caecilia Metella, the women of the Caecilius Metellus family Claudia Julia (1st century AD), sister-in-law of Caligula Clodia (1st century BC), Catullus's Lesbia Cornelia Africana (2nd century BC), mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus Cornelia Cinna (1st century BC), wife of Julius Caesar Cornelia Metella (1st century BC), fifth wife of Pompey Cornelia Sulla, daughter of Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, number one cousin to Julius Caesar & mother of Pompeia Sulla Domitia Longina (1st century), wife of Domitian Fulvia (1st century BC), wife of Publius Clodius Pulcher and Mark Antony Galla Placidia, (5th century) Julia Caesaris, the women of the Julii Caesarii family Julia Domna (3rd century AD), wife of Septimius Severus Julia Maesa (3rd century AD), grandmother of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus Livia Drusilla (1st century BC), wife of Augustus Caesar Livilla (1st century AD), granddaughter of Livia Messalina, Emperor Claudius' wife Mucia Tertia (1st century BC), wife of Pompey Octavia, the women of the Octavii family Plautia Urgulanilla, Emperor Claudius' first wife Pompeia Sulla, granddaughter of the Dictator Sulla and second married woman of Julius Caesar Servilia Caepionis (1st century BC), Julius Caesar mistress, mother of Brutus

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