Roles of women
The main expectation for upperclass women after marriage
What is having legitimate children?
Roles women were depicted as suitable for
What are domestic roles
The status of women who were originally slaves
What are freedwomen?
Livia Drusilla
Who was Augustus 1st influential wife?
Priestesses of Vesta (goddess of hearth)
Who are the Vestal Virgins?
The people that assisted women with domestic duties
What are slaves?
Women were praised for this this
What is obedience
The period of time where women could be an empress.
What is Imperial Rome?
The first empress of Rome
What did Livia become when she married Augustus?
The myth where men and women were considered the same species
What is the Roman creation myth?
The types of businesses upperclass women could own/manage
What are shipping corporations and brick making factories?
The reason men believed they needed to control women
What were ambitious schemers?
The name of the lower-class citizens
What are the plebians?
Livia Drusilla and Agrippina the Younger
Who were the two most influential Julio-Claudian women?
The worshippers of the “Good Goddess”
Who were the Bona Dea?
The group where women had the most economic roles and worked the most
What is the lower class?
The reason many sources depict women unrealistically or in an exaggerated way
What is gender bias?
This specific class of women could gain titles in Imperial Rome.
What is the senatorial class?
Accused of poisoning August 1st
What was Livia Drusilla accused of doing to her husband, Augustus?
Women who kept Vesta’s sacred fire alight
What was the Vestal Virgins main role?
The period of time where women could gain temporary political roles
What is the late republic period?
Limited in their movements and subordinate to a male in their family
What were the main restrictions placed upon women in Ancient Rome?
The Julio-Claudian dynasty
At which point were women of high status at their most powerful/influential?
Her son Nero had her murdered
How did Agrippina the Younger die?
A women only cult that performed sacrifices and prayers
What was the Bona Dea cult?