Women and Gender in the Forum Romanum

This article explores the evidence for women and gender in the Forum Romanum, investigating (primarily through literary sources) women's use of this space, and (primarily archaeologically) historical women's signification there by images and structures. The illustrated analysis proceeds ch...

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Published inTransactions of the American Philological Association (1974) Vol. 141; no. 1; pp. 105 - 141
Main Author BOATWRIGHT, MARY T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2011
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Archaeology
Atriums
Emperors
Funerals
Gender roles
Ideology
Men
Patronage
Processions
Religion
Roman civilization
Sculpture
Statues
Suet
Temples
Upper houses
Women
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Summary:This article explores the evidence for women and gender in the Forum Romanum, investigating (primarily through literary sources) women's use of this space, and (primarily archaeologically) historical women's signification there by images and structures. The illustrated analysis proceeds chronologically from the Republic to the early third century CE. Authors report women's presence in the civic Forum as abnormal, even transgressive through the Julio-Claudian period. The paucity of women's depictions and patronage here until the second century CE. echoes constructs of Livy, Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, and others. The mid-imperial Forum, however, marks changes in Roman ideology as well as topography.
ISSN:0360-5949
1533-0699
2575-7180
1533-0699
2575-7199
DOI:10.1353/apa.2011.0007