8auman delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements.

The study of women in the societies of antiquity has assumed a fresh significance in recent years. This book delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements. Professor Bauman's investigation covers the period from C350 BC to AD 68, and thus embraces the Middle and Late Republic and the Early Principate. It is demonstrated that the story of Roman women over that period is one of cohesion and continuity, of the steady expansion of women's roles in public affairs. That paced expansion, and the means by which it was achieved, such as the acquisition and use of legal knowledge and the influence of women's movements, is the central theme of this book. Bauman's treatment is principally chronological, stressing sequential development, concluding with the great ladies of the Emperor's House.

Preface
I Introduction
II Women in the Conflict of the Orders
III Women in the second punic war
IV The Politics of Protest
V Women in Gracchan Politics
VI The Political Strategists of the Late Republic
VII The Triumviral Period: Diplomacy, Oratory and Leadership
VIII The Foothills of the Principate
IX Women in the Augustan Principate
X Tiberius, Livia and Agrippina
XI Caligula's Sisters
XII Messalina, Agrippina and Claudius
XIII Agrippina, Nero and the Domus
XIV In Retrospect