La mujer griega del Bósforo: su imagen visual y papel social a la luz de la epigrafía antigua

Abstract

In the society of the Bosphorus state, a woman was considered to be and treated as a good daughter to her parents, a respectable wife, and an honest mother to her children. Since she was free, she possessed human and socioeconomic rights. Her children's citizenship depended on her marital status. Aristocratic women had the rank of priestesses in the cult of different local female dieties they even had a right to govern the state. The history of the Bosphorus has known the reigns of Dinamia and Pifodoria, whose policy allowed them to maintain the state's autonomy, despite the Romans' great pressure in the times of Caesar and Augustus, and to prove their loyalty to those Hellenistic and Iranian principles and rules set by the preceding monarchs.