On the occasion of the presentation of the book, Women in Augustan times. Realidad social e imposición legal (Tirant 2016), the Museum is organising a round table discussion on different aspects related to women in this period of Ancient Rome.

On the occasion of the international commemoration of the bimillenary of the death of Augustus in 2014, various activities were held that took as a common thread the interdisciplinary treatment of women in the saeculum augustum. This monograph is forged in that specific context; thus, from the fields of Roman Law, History of Law, Literature, Ancient and Medieval History, Archaeology and History of Art, it brings together various research works on real women in the temporal and political frontier where two centuries, two systems of power converge: the Republic and the Empire, and two models of morality.

Roman women, admired, reviled or forgotten, spanning practically the span of a century, with the common denominator of their strong personalities and high cultural level; women who, according to the terminology of gender discourse, felt “empowered”.

Collection: Multimedia

Project: 8. Women and the change for gender equality in Europe.

Chronology: -

Scope: Secondary Education

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdO_OwnldA4&feature=emb_logo

Resource type: Video

Format: Multimedia

Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)

Abstract: On the occasion of the presentation of the book, Women in Augustan times. Realidad social e imposición legal (Tirant 2016), the Museum is organising a round table discussion on different aspects related to women in this period of Ancient Rome. On the occasion of the international commemoration of the bimillenary of the death of Augustus in 2014, various activities were held that took as a common thread the interdisciplinary treatment of women in the saeculum augustum. This monograph is forged in that specific context; thus, from the fields of Roman Law, History of Law, Literature, Ancient and Medieval History, Archaeology and History of Art, it brings together various research works on real women in the temporal and political frontier where two centuries, two systems of power converge: the Republic and the Empire, and two models of morality. Roman women, admired, reviled or forgotten, spanning practically the span of a century, with the common denominator of their strong personalities and high cultural level; women who, according to the terminology of gender discourse, felt "empowered".