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Matrons of Awesome Part XI – Trajan’s Matrons
(or: “disgustingly good women of the Adoptive Era.”) (or: “of all the PR in all the world, these women had the best that money could buy”) After the Flavians dynasty died with Domitian, elderly Nerva...
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Matrons of Awesome Part XII – Good Wives and the Gladiators
When Antoninus Pius was adopted as Hadrian’s heir, he already had a wife and daughter, both called Faustina. A condition of Antoninus’ adoption was that he in turn adopt two men chosen by Hadrian:...
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Matrons of Awesome XIII: Between the Dynasties
This one’s short. This is all we have about these three, apart from a coin or two that just confirms the below information. 38. Manlia Scantilla Wife of Didius Julianus, who came the throne suddenly...
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Matrons of Awesome Part XIV – A Surfeit of Julias
So those who have read the lead story in Love and Romanpunk know that the book has a fixation on the name ‘Julia.’ It’s not just because that name was attached to so many women of the first,...
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Matrons of Awesome Part XV – Saint Helena
I've been in this room! Check out the Flavian Lady in the background. Best room in the Musei Capitolini.The end of the Severan dynasty pretty much concludes the period of Roman history that I know...
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I, Friday Links
Kathleen Jennings’ excellent Dalek game continues apace, and she recently produced a new favourite for me – daleks rocking the romanpunk with an I, Claudius parody. An eye-opening post about the kind...
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Because Caesar Was Taken [Xena Rewatch 3.16-3.19]
3.16 – When in Rome Pompey the Magnus. Oh my yes. I was excited to see this was a Rome episode and even more excited to realise it features Crassus, a historical character who has always interested me....
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Friday Links Didn’t Burn Any Bras
Eh, I’ve been trying and failing to write an essay about how often women (fictional and otherwise) end up being shamed, dismissed or hurt in the name of feminism, but it’s tangling me up in knots, so...
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Friday Links has Great Role Models
Twelfth Planet Press is now 5 years old, and wow how far she’s come! Alisa muses on the last five years here, and also talks about how she can find positive female role models in trashy reality TV...
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Friday Links is a Little Stir Crazy
As ever, the Hobart Show Weekend has settled on one of our two favourite weather extremes: it’s been chucking it down, and one day into a four day weekend, the children are climbing the walls. Pity me!...
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