The Woman in Cornelius Nepos
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Cornelius Nepos, woman, moral valuesAbstract
The references compatible with the theme of women disseminated in the surviving works and fragments of Cornelius Nepos refer mainly to foreign women and women of high status. The analysis addresses issues of gender, terminology and visibility, marriage, dowry and women’s roles, endogamy and exogamy, interethnic and interclass marriages, choice of partners and mediators, female civic intervention, and the learned woman. The analysis allowed us to draw some conclusions: enormous wealth of information; absence of misogyny; existence of women who transgress the norm; naturalness and neutrality regarding the specific customs of Romans or foreigners, preferring general and timeless characters and behaviors; greater visibility of Roman women; consolidation of a new feminine ideal in the time of Cornelius Nepos.
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