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For further information, including about cookie settings, please read our Cookie Policy. By continuing to use this site, you consent to the use of cookies. We value your privacy. The role of women in the social life of the Roman Empire was always limited, not only by gender, but also by social class.
Reaching an unprecedented level of marginalization, they became the victims of a vicious circle in which not only they did not have legal rights, but they were not the owners of deciding or choosing their intimate relationships, reduced to being a simple entity without human attributes, mere property, and a shame to society.
But very soon Curio stepped in, who carried you off from your public trade, and, as if he had bestowed a matron's robe upon you, settled you in a steady and durable wedlock. No boy bought for the gratification of passion was ever so wholly in the power of his master as you were in Curio's ".
Cicero, 1 Philippics II Although it seems that Rome was the only society of the antiquity that granted the status of citizenship, and even freed its slaves, it is not so clear that it happened with equality for women as for men, especially when we talk about dealing with slave women, prostitutes, or both.
