Women in Rome
It is said that women in Rome enjoyed much more freedom than in Greece, but to what extent is this true? Let's watch this video and make conclusions after doing the cloze activity below.
Now it's your turn
1. Attia considers Roman women dynamic and .
2. Women appear very rarely in History books because History books were written by .
3. Bruno Heller thinks that the reason why women were powerful was partly because men were always .
4. According to Servilia, women of her social class had a great influence in .
5. This influence was because of their capacity of in the back-room politics.
6. The video is about the role of women in the late .
7. On the other hand, the soldier's wife lives in a nasty with no .
8. The soldier thinks that women have to be to men.
9. His wife recognizes that in public women are subserviant, but at home they have .
10. Attia thinks that behind a great man there is a great .
11. She says that she would have been an if she had been born a man.
You should know... Cleopatra
Certainly, Cleopatra was not a Roman, but the period of the end of the Republic can't be understood without this extremely beautiful smart woman. Let's listen to what our dear History Teachers sing about her.