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Contents 1 Tag 1.1 Rich Women 1.2 Time Period 1.3 Women taking husband's name

[edit] Tag

This whole article seems very biased... And what's up with the women can't even travel even if accompanied thing? If so, then why were there women outside/in the streets of Rome (the civilization, not the city)? Bayerischermann 03:54, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

• I suspect that might be a bit overstated, but it is entirely true that women had little clout of their own (with some of these notable exceptions) until the Imperial Family took over after Augustus (and outside the Vestals). Travel would have happened within Italy, certainly, or to promagisterial commands in the provinces, but these women would be accompanied by their husbands or tutores. One shouldn't forget the commonplace nature of brigandage along the roads and piracy on the seas even during the pax Romana, especially in the 2nd century (see, for example, Hellenistic romances or Apuleius' Golden Ass).--CaesarGJ 02:43, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rich Women

It was typically rich women who had (or were at least expected) to be escorted, not all women. Ryan 04:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Frankly, it's an accurate article. We were just learning about this in History. The roles of women in Rome were little to none, and it was a bisexual society. The men would have the women usually only to bear sons and to keep the home, and they would spend long amounts of time away from the home to be with other men, discussing history, poetry, etcetcetc. It wasn't uncommon for the men to have both female and male lovers. And this is coming from a woman, who is fairly feminist. But this society was better with women than in many societies. At least here the women could influence the men. Such as "the woman behind the man," in public figures. --JulieRaven, http://julieraven.deviantart.com, Oct. 25th, 2005 12:58 PM CST\

[edit] Time Period

This article doesn't specify a specific time period...Does this mean that the information here applies to Rome over the whole course of its history??? Just as another note, this stub is pretty sparse on sources.

--Unnamed, 4 Jan 2006, 4:38 PM

• I agree, the introduction is lacking a lot of sources, The whole this is filled with "citation needed" and such. Could someone try to fix this? Jezzamon (talk) 09:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Women taking husband's name

Didn't women in Rome, once married, often take a form of their husband's name? (ie, Julius' wife becomes Julia, Herod's wife becomes Herodias) If this is true, it deserves a mention, here and possbly under Slave name . 75.111.217.14 20:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)anonymous