Abstract
Abstract A pressing and persistent problem confronts work on the women of ancient Rome: a need to determine the relation between the realities of women’s lives and their representation in Latin literature. Several of the volumes on women in antiquity which appeared in the course of the 1980s exposed the methodological problems associated with any study of women in Greek and Roman literary texts.1 Twenty years later, moreover, the historian Susanne Dixon opens Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres and Real Life (2001) with the admission that she finds herself more sceptical than ever about the possibilities of extracting substantive information about Roman women from the ancient sources.2
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