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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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