RCCHU Ancient History International Seminars: VII. Panel of Imperial Rome

Oro vos faciatis... Elections and Canvassing in Roman Towns (c. I BC – II AC) 

The municipal elections as well as those of Rome itself in Republican times were annual, unlike the four-year interval which exists nowadays. Fortunately, we have a good knowledge of the regulations and the functioning of the elections in the colonies and municipalities of the Roman West, thanks to the municipal laws from Baetica and the electoral graffiti preserved from Pompeii. 

Speaker: Víctor Andrés Torres González (University of Seville, Spain)

A Case of Female Mobility in Roman Times: the Presence of Women in Procuratorial Praetoria (c. I – III AC) 

As is widely known, during Roman imperial times women were barred from holding public officia. However, they could freely move within the private sphere. Nevertheless, when their male relatives, as members of the equestrian order, had to travel due to a procuratorial appointment in cities far away from their birthplaces or hometowns, were women allowed to follow them? If so, where did they stay? My paper focuses on the women related to Roman procurators, examining on the one hand legal texts specifying the moments at which they could accompany their fathers or husbands. Then, on the other hand, I also scrutinise the literary texts and epigraphic sources alluding to the female kin of procurators to better depict their public and private activities in their temporary homes. 

Speaker: Anthony Álvarez Melero (University of Seville, Spain)

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Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University)

Sponsors: University of Seville, Spain; Harvard University; RCCHU