A Rome of One's Own: Putting Women back into Roman History

Roman historian Emma Southon explores the lesser-known stories of a few women from a vast empire, revealing changes in women’s lives across time and class lines.
Learn more about the lives of women in ancient Rome in this interview with Emma Southon:
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This program was presented Online on Friday, March 8, 2024, www.getty.edu/visit/cal/event....
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[@rutiliusrufus5637]

Emma, 15 years on youtube through varied topics from Astronomy to Paleontology and ths would have to be one of the best, most informative, inspiring talks I've Heard. Kudos.

[@samizdatbroadcasts7654]

So it isn't just men who think about the Roman Empire on a daily basis. That's good to know.

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Just added it to my cart

[@yolokorea7557]

Never heard as Rome being described as having "filled the whole world with the domination of its own virtue" LOL, wow, the mind of the colonizer never changes. Thanks for these wonderful insights

[@assia3135]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this with the public
P.S. I wouldn't call the way men wrote about Perpetua "stripping her from her humanity" because it implies something which isn't true. They wrote about her the way they would about any man they admired, making her superhuman and less relatable true, but not stripped of humanity in the sense she was less than a human. All accounts of saints, regardless of gender, sound like this, it isn't a male vs female thing, but divine vs human. Don't think it's fair to equate this with other contexts where men wrote about women as less than human or they didn't write about them at all.

[@Semper_Iratus]

As they should be.