What are the various significances of the figure of Cornelia?
Are there similarities in the ways in which Clodia and Sempronia are described?
Compare the speeches of Cato, Lucius Valerius and Hortensia.
What public roles are sanctioned for women? What public roles are not approved?
What are the various relations among women, their husbands and fathers?
To what extent are women represented as part of the state?
What are the most striking differences between Greek and Roman representations of respectable women?