Women in ancient Rome
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In ancient Rome, freeborn women were citizens, but could not vote or hold political office. Because of their limited public role, women are named less frequently than men by Roman historians. But whil
The educated and well-traveled Vibia Sabina (c. 136 AD) was a grand-niece of the emperor Trajan and became the wife of his successor Hadrian.
Roman girls playing a game
Bronze statuette of the 1st century depicting a girl reading
Bust of a Roman girl, early 3rd century
Fulvia
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Fulvia was an aristocratic Roman woman who lived during the late Roman Republic. Fulvia's birth into an important political dynasty facilitated her relationships and, later on, marriages to Publius Cl
Portrait of Fulvia on an 18 mm leaded bronze coin from the city Eumeneia (renamed Fulvia) of Phrygia. Obverse: Fulvia, reverse: Athena. Legend: ΦΟΥΛΟVΙΑΝΩΝ ΖΜΕΡΤΟΡΙΓΟΣ ΦΙΛΩΝΙΔΟΥ (Phoulovianoon Zmertorigos Philoonidou, the town magistrate). Around 41/40 BC.
Fulvia from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Fulvia With the Head of Cicero by Pavel Svedomsky
The vengeance of Fulvia by Francisco Maura Y Montaner, 1888 depicting Fulvia inspecting the severed head of Cicero