| A | B |
| Cloelia | led Roman hostages |
| Clodia | accused by Cicero of many crimes |
| Neaera | freed prostitute from Corinth |
| Phano | married Phrastor |
| Phrynion | paid for Neaera's freedom |
| Theogenes | married Phano |
| Stephanus | claimed his children were Athenian |
| Apollodorus | argued against Stephanus |
| Euphiletus | killed his wife's lover |
| Eratosthenes | seduced a married woman |
| Ciron | father of woman claimed to be Athenian |
| Thesmophoria | fertility feast at which Athenian wives presided |
| phratry | kinship group that decided on legitimacy of children |
| kyrios | Greek: male guardianship of woman |
| dowry | money given by woman's family on marriage |
| Lucretia | forced to sleep with prince |
| Livy | historian 1st cent BC/AD |
| Pliny | scholar, letter-writer 1st cent AD |
| Sempronia | talented, bad woman who followed Catiline |
| Juvenal | satirical author 2nd cent AD |
| Cicero | famous orator/statesman 1st cent BC |
| Cato | spoke against repeal of Oppian Law |
| Lucius Valerius | in favor of repeal of Oppian Law |
| Calpurnia | wife of Pliny the Younger |
| Helvidiae | sistrs who died in childbirth |
| Minicia Marcella | excellent girl who died young |
| Arria | wife who urged husband to die bravely |
| Fannia | went into exile with husband |
| "Turia" | husband praised her on funeral column |
| Vestal Virgins | kept the sacred flame going |
| Sabine women | made peace between husbands and fathers |