num_pages: 263
description: This study attempts to show how conflicts arising in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic led to a steady erosion of its patriarchal institutions. The results of sending so many men abroad on wars of conquest, the author argues, led to dramatic changes in social conditions.
language: English
title: War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome
titlecomplete: War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome
publisher: Routledge