Imperial women's coins
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i1p259-286Keywords:
Imperial Women, coins, RomeAbstract
This article aims to explore the public image of some of the women from the Late Republic/Early Empire displayed in coins dated from the Principality, established by Augustus (27 BC) until the death of Nero (68 AD). It is intended to illustrate how, during this period, these women enhanced their visibility in public life, through tasks linked to the imperial family, which led them to the Patronage and, consequently, to self-propaganda, which was a way of displaying power.
Women of that time were restricted to a private and domestic life due to the existence of the patria potestas, which was significant and marked the father's power relations within the Roman family, classifying women as unequal to the man. The conquest of women in having their names remembered, through statues, plaques, and coins was something recent at the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, established through the Patronage. The memory of the person, in this way, was something important and could reverberate for generations in the family.
Coins with representations of imperial women make it possible not only to chronologically reconstruct their existence in history, but also to demonstrate that they were active in public life.
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