المرأة في البلاط الروماني بين الاستقامة و الفجور

Abstract EN

At the end of the Republic, ideally austere and virtuous, watching over the home, the Roman woman is entirely devoted to her duty of engendering and educating generations of citizens; The "matrona" must behave as a submissive wife, stay home to spin and weave the wool, an activity that symbolizes the duties but also the dignity of his function, considered as minor, remains all his life subject to a male guardianship but to from the 2nd century BC, the "patria potestas" is gradually limited; "legitimate" tutelage, weakened by the laws of Augustus and will be completely suppressed in the second century AD; in wealthy circles they participate, especially in the general relaxation of manners: they compete with men in banquets sometimes, and multiply adulteries and divorces; and in the imperial palaces one finds the woman often exemplary, sometimes intransigent, sluggish and cunning, some have an iron will, but did women really have a growing influence on the manners and politics of the Roman Empire?