'IN ABSENTIA LONGI ITINERIS MEI': Gendered mobility in the Roman Latin West.
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2021-06-08
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Throughout Roman literature female mobility is less elaborately described than the mobility of men. According to Roman authors this traveling behavior of elite women seems not to go alongside the order and socio-cultural hierarchy in Roman society. In literary texts the mobility of women seems to be considered a disrupting force which caused women to step out of the private domain and enter the public male domain. The literary portrayal of these mobile women and the relation towards their husbands touches upon the scholarly debate on gender and mobility in antiquity. Throughout the last century the upcoming and further development of feminism during the several feminist waves has heavily influenced scholarly literature on women and antiquity. As scholars have merely explored the possible contributions of a more detailed study on epigraphical sources, this thesis aims to contribute to the filling of this gap by a more in-depth study on mobility within funerary inscriptions.
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Faculteit der Letteren