Condizione e ruoli della donna nella realtà agraria romana: il contributo degli <i>Scriptores rei rusticae</i>

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The paper analyses passages from Latin treatises de re rustica dedicated to woman’s role in the rural context. Based on these passages, light is shed not only on the various tasks woman is entrusted with in ancient Roman agricultural life but also on the moralistic trends and traditional paradigms characterizing the interpretation of the female figure by Latin agronomic sources as well as on the meaning of the patriarchal model of the Roman familia, which is focussed by them too.

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