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- Title
„In domo gravissimae feminae" Politische Unterredungen im Haus der Sulpicia im Jahre 186 v. Chr.
- Authors
Flower, Harriet I.
- Abstract
This paper focusses on the houses of wealthy women in republican Rome by exploring political conversations that took place in this gendered domestic context. The case study of Sulpicia, mother-in-law of Spurius Postumius Albinus (consul 186 BCE), provides a range of suggestive insights into the independent roles played by women living in their own houses in the early second century BCE. According to Livy's narrative, several pivotal conversations that shaped the outcome of the notorious Bacchanalian affair took place in Sulpicia's house. These conversations reveal the social settings in which women interacted, networked, exchanged information, and talked politics and religion in a setting that was specifically their own.
- Subjects
ROME; LIVY, ca. 59 B.C.-17; NARRATIVES; RELIGION &; politics; SULPICIA, fl. 25 B.C.; SULPICIANS; INFORMATION sharing; POLITICAL communication; COMMUNICATION &; politics; CONSULS; REPUBLICANS; CONVERSATION
- Publication
Historische Zeitschrift, 2023, Vol 316, Issue 2, p281
- ISSN
0018-2613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/hzhz-2023-0008