Assignment task: The Rape of Lucretia" from Livy's History of Rome
"Roman Women Protest against the Oppian Law" from Livy's History of Rome
"The Ways of Women" from Juvenal's Satire VI
Compare the assigned primary sources
Q1. What was the ideal role for a Roman woman, and to what extent did this ideal change over time?
Q2. To what extent does this prescriptive behavior reflect the reality for women in the Roman civilization?