Roman Women and the Oppian Law
‘We have not kept our women individually under control, we now dread them collectively’, said Cato the Elder, as Rome’s women took to the streets to protest the unfair lex Oppia.
The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest in 195 BC. It was a striking manifestation of their power in what was a rigidly patriarchal society.
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