The role of women in political and social spheres was strongly reinforced throughout the 1st century BC. From the privacy of their homes they were able to influence politicians and thus participate, although indirectly, at specific moments in the political history of that time. The article analyzes the different ways in which women, through men, intervened in the essentially masculine world of politics and the reactions of their contemporaries.

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