Verkannte Weiblichkeit? – Fulvia in der Erfüllung sozialer Rollen einer matrona Romana.
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Fulvia held an outstanding position among the women of thelate Republic. Th is position was based partially on her family status andpartially on her successive marriages with three important politicians:P. Clodius Pulcher, C. Scribonius Curio and M. Antonius. Even hercontemporaries accused her of having a negative character image,stylizing her as a mannish woman. Only recently modern researchershave begun to weaken this distorted picture. Yet, they continued tocompletely ignore Fulvia as a female role model. A revaluation shows,however, that Fulvia could indeed meet the ideal of a matrona Romana.As fi lia familia she was able to produce a respectable family background,considerable assets and an adequate education. Furthermore, sinceshe gave birth to fi ve children, raised and protected them, as well asuncompromisingly supported her husbands, she was also considereda respectable mater familias. Ultimately, her rigorous stance duringthe Perusian War of 41/40 B.C. has to be valued as a demonstrationof unconditional pietas, even though by doing so she violated theboundaries of traditional womanhood once and for all.
Author: Sandra Kaden
Language: Spanish
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1719769170