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Fulvia: Power, Propaganda, and the Erasure of Women in the Late Roman Republic
Michaelis, Diana
Michaelis, Diana
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Fulvia was a prominent elite woman of the late Roman Republic who transcended the limitations of her time and gender to rise to power through marriages to three tribunes of the plebs: Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio, and Mark Antony (83 BC – 30 BC), the legendary Roman general who played a leading role in the political struggles and civil wars that transformed Ancient Rome from a Republic into the imperial Roman Empire. As the old Roman Republic crumbled and the autocratic Empire began to take shape, Fulvia emerged as a formidable figure, becoming one of the most audacious, strategically influential, and rhetorically targeted women of her time. As her first biographer, Celia Schultz, puts it, “She was more daring and more visible than any of her contemporaries except Cleopatra.” Her actions, often shocking to her contemporaries, defied convention and challenged traditional norms of Roman womanhood.
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Thesis (B.A. in Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2025.
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2025
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Women, Social conditions, Fulvia, active 1st century B.C.
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Michaelis, Diana. "Fulvia: Power, Propaganda, and the Erasure of Women in the Late Roman Republic". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2025.