Harry N. Abrams A Rome of Ones Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "the Doing of Important Things,? and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that.