La parola alle matrone. Interventi femminili in sedi pubbliche nell’età tardo repubblicana

Abstract

During the age of Late Republic the women scope of action cover also the public contest, like the forum, where usually the men spent the politically life and that traditionally were the sole male enjoyment. The paper allowed to analyse if the presence of matronae in metters of res publica brings them to appropriate over time even in communicative mode indispensable to such kind of activities. Thanks to the historical sources we considered three of the most representative events, dated between 43rd and 42nd b.C.; we analyse the figures of Fulvia, Giulia and Ortensia, representatives of the Roman aristocracy in a period of innovation. Our propose it is also to study similarities and differences between these kind of facts, the evolution of female rule and the question of dependence in the late republican events and in proto and meso republican age focusing the reability of sources.