Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on the political history of the Roman Republic and was Principal Investigator on the European Research Council-funded Starting Grant The Fragments of Republican Roman Orators (2012–2017). She is currently completing a monograph on the Roman Senate during the Republican period, supported by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of the Academia Europaea. Lewis Webb is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. He has published widely on women and politics in the Roman Republic. He is completing an edited volume on Women and Roman Historiography and a monograph on Senatorial Women in the Middle Republic. In 2025, he was appointed a Pro Futura Scientia XIX Fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies.

• List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Catherine Steel and Lewis Webb; Part I. Institutional Parameters: 1. Tutela mulierum in the Roman Republic Kit Morrell; 2. Women and the Census in the Roman Republic Cristina Rosillo-López; 3. Female Visibility and Regulations in Republican Rome Lewis Webb; 4. Licinnia's Dowry and Property Rights Harriet I. Flower; 5. Female Patrons during the Roman Republic Peter Keegan; Part II. Economic Power: 6. A Series of Unfortunate Events Revisited Bronwyn Hopwood; 7. Roman Matrons' Wealth between Politics and Clichés Francesca Rohr Vio and Alessandra Valentini; 8. Beyond Jewellery: Female Economic Roles in the Late Republic Giulia Vettori; 9. Sectrix proscriptionum: Women at the Proscriptions Carolyn Tobin; Part III. Prominent Women: 10. Contested Memories: Scipionic and Gracchan matronae J. Lea Beness and Tom Hillard; 11. Mucia Tertia: Resources of Matronage Christiane Kunst; 12. Octavia Minor: The Last Civil War Matron Christian Hjorth Bagger; Part IV. Women and Crisis: 13. There Will Be Blood: Fulvia and the Funeral of Clodius Carsten Hjort Lange; 14. The Gendered Physicality of Power in the Roman Republic Ash Finn; 15. Paideia and Politics: The Case of Octavia Minor Lien Van Geel; Part V. Coda: 16. Plus ça change? Women, Property and 'Western Civilization' Kathryn Welch and Carol Scott; Part VI. Afterword: 17. Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic Judith Peller Hallett; Bibliography; Index.