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The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient NovelEdited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 16–41
This chapter provides an overview of the situation of women in the field of Roman private law. It deals with the various situations in which women are placed, whether as married women, divorced women, concubines, mothers or widows, or as daughters subject to parental authority. Other related issues such as the tutela mulierum or the SC Velleianum are also studied.