What does patria potestas mean?What are the legal constraints on women within Roman marriage? How can women escape these constraints?
What are grounds for divorce?
How do Vestal Virgins differ legally from other women?
How do women feature in the legends of early Rome? How do their roles differ from those of women in Herodotus' Histories?
In your reading so far, what do you see as the major differences for women between the Greek and Roman cultures?