War Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

<p>J.K. Evans' pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social economic and legal condition of Roman women which it is argued were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. J.K. Evans' investigation ranges from Cicero's wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall.</p>