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 |