A Woman to Know: Fulvia
Antony himself was ready to put upon Fulvia the blame for whatever was charged against himself. — Plutarch
(image via Wikimedia Commons)
Wife to three politically powerful Romans (including Marc Antony, before Cleopatra), enemy to Cicero (supposedly piercing his corpse's tongue with her own golden hairpins), alleged mob organizer (hence her vast wealth), the most powerful female figure in Rome during the Perusine War in 41 BC and, most significantly of all, the first non-mythological woman to appear on Roman currency.
Add to your library list:
The Women Who Influenced the History of Rome (Paul Chrystal)
The Death of Caesar (Barry Strauss)
Women and Politics in Ancient Rome (Richard A. Bauman)
Read more:
When in Rome (The New Yorker)
The Public Voice of Women (The London Review of Books)
The New Tens Two-Body Problem (The New Yorker)
Unsexing Fulvia (The Dangerous Women Project)
The Role of Women in the Roman World (Ancient)
Listen more:
Gender: From Greece to Rome (The Historical Association)
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