The Lives of Ancient Roman Women

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Can you think of any other women in ancient Roman society who rose above their limitations to do extraordinary things?

[@randomcamus9445]

The Romans had to choose between their slaves who were mainly northern barbarians to have😏🤤🍆🥵.. ...

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

They didn’t even have their own first names. If a girl’s father was named Livius she would be Livia. And so would her sisters. They would then have a number after their names

[@randomcamus9445]

The Romans had to choose between their slaves who were mainly northern barbarians to have😏🤤🍆🥵....

[@Davlavi]

Informative as always.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you think so!

[@dariogutierrez6716]

Very useful when writing roman women. I think a powerful woman was Domitia Longina, survived to see nine emperors, married one, loved another and might have killed Domitian. Kept on going even in her life full of pain.

[@randomcamus9445]

The Romans had to choose between their slaves who were mainly northern barbarians to have😏🤤🍆🥵... ..

[@zandertalbot1087]

This was very insightful and well done 👏🏾

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you so much. We're glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@ROMA--AETERNA]

Great video. Curious if the legal-rights changes circa 17 BCE were during the Augustan marriage reforms (to increase the birth rate)?

[@magaliej6963]

I think so! I suppose they are talking about the Lex Julia and the Lex Papia Poppaea by Augustus, which introduced the ius liberorum (freeing women who birthed 3 children from tutela mulierum)

[@cobliticentertainment1311]

Really helping on my studies

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We're glad to hear that!

[@cobliticentertainment1311]

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[@Con_blue]

Could you make a video about the vestal virgins?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for the suggestion, we will see what we can do!

[@astriddiedame257]

I think we could make an "opening" to talk about a "trans woman", Emperor Elagabalus, who according to the Praetorian documents, he wanted to have a vagina and even married a man, and was dressed as a woman at the wedding.

[@viperstriker4728]

Yeah that ain't exactly true of Elagabalus. Here is a video that goes over those sources to say he is trans in detail. (If a trans person knew who Elagabalus was they would be very offended to be lumped in with him. So it might be a good idea for you to learn more about it before pushing historical revisionism.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/onqWdp5ul7Rrq80

[@zachfox5969]

Worthy of note is the fact that, for many thousands of years, literally everybody thought it was completely insane to "install or remove ones own sexual hardware".

[@us4damons]

​@@zachfox5969 exactly. . Cause it is

[@PSDuck216]

As bad as women had it in Rome, they we fairly free compared to Ancient Greece. There, the Greeks considered women as “deformed men”. Good presentation! Keep them coming! Cheers!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@josephbell2356]

Even the women that owned shops?

[@johnqpublic5938]

waaaaay too many ads

[@hi23nutzer21]

I would live to know about the festival of Bonna Dea but saddly there is nothing that discribed what happend on the fest or what the woman did there.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Hi! Unfortunately we don't have much on the Festival of Bona Dea, but if you do a Google search, you should be able to find out more information.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

Regulated by men? Not if you were a Vestal virgin or the priestesses of some temples. Like in any other period of history your quality of life was dependent upon certain circumstances. This is all presentism- judging history by contemporary mores. Roman society was only one of many cultures of the ancient period. Roles of women varied from culture to culture but most societies were male-centric.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@golgumbazguide...4113]

Nobel Queen chand sultahana in Deccan.

[@USA50_]

Very biased video. We cannot judge ancient times by modern standards - people didn't think the same way we do now back then. No society is perfect.

[@annemoore8089]

Hypatia

[@nazlsenay7312]

...😊

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

😊

[@sallypettet8929]

typical male dominance!

[@viperstriker4728]

Just looked up the naming convention and it is extremely bias the way it is presented here. Just a few google searches and it appears that the praenomen (first of the 3 names) was given to both boys and girls in some periods but there was a time period which it was not used for women. Since the praenomen wasn't used they they used the order of birth with terms like Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta and so on. This was called a cognomen. Male names were also very weird and formulaic like this and should be included for context. To say women didn't get a name is absurd. None of them got a name as we understand names and simplifying it to this degree only serves to misinform and anger people. And please don't take my word for this. I still have to learn how how the naming works. But just a few google searches was enough for me to disregard the info in this video entirely.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you for your feedback and for watching.

[@violetswindlehurst5555]

Nero was a terrible person. That should be mentiond.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

He is definitely a controversial figure. We do mention it elsewhere.

[@deso5889]

Not much different than today

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Well, there is some difference. Thanks for watching!

[@chipkipperly3904]

Haha I wish. Women have total power in the mating process at least in the West.

[@Bluemann023]

women have more power than men in modern world

[@deso5889]

@@Bluemann023 the average man does face competition from women in the modern world, however there is still an inequality in power as men do still run the show.

[@KD400_]

Western women have it easier than all women put together thruout history