Roman Wives, Roman Widows Karen M. Evans Written by a veteran

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Roman Wives, Roman Widows Karen M. Evans Written by a veteranIn Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A. D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire a woman whose provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle contrasted starkly with the decorum of the traditional married woman. What a woman chose to wear came to identify her as either "new" or "modest." Augustus legislated against the "new" woman.