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Roman Women [753BC - AD476] Include changes; developments; main influences…

- - - - could inherit, but not control or dispose of their property without the approval of their guardianship
- - - - illustrated by Claudius offered the privileges granted to mothers of three children to freedwomen who invested in the grain market for the feeding of Rome
    - - shown to have extensive business interests
      - was the patroness of the fullers, who reward her with a statue of herself as priestess for her subsidies to public buildings
  - - - was given the title Augusta and worshipped as a goddess in the provinces
      - gained status and was able in her own right to finance major public-building projects
    - - was austere and arrogant in public
      - complete obedience was accorded to women
      - was immoral, disreputable and violent
      - Nero attempted to have her murdered
      - employed severity and menaces
      - could give Nero the empire, but could not endure him as an emperor
- - - - their pleas fell on deaf ears
      - resorted to male tactic of holding a protest meeting outside the Senate house, where Hortensia daughter of Hortensius addressed the crowd
      - female collective activity ceased and so did Hortensia's political career