Agripina e as outras. Redes femininas de poder nas cortes de Calígula, Cláudio e Nero

Abstract

In First Century Imperial Rome, apparently, women were politically active, although that wasn't an official way to act. To the roman Man, feminine politics was an anti-nature issue. But the fact is that ancient sources show women reacting against that standard way of living, in a more or less evident form. Agrippina the Younger is one of those examples, maybe the best known. But we know of other cases that prove this perception of the reality, such as the aristocratic Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla, Valeria Messalina, Lollia Paulina, Domitia Lepida, Claudia Octavia, Poppaea Sabina, the courtesans Calpurnia and Cleopatra, the freedwoman Acte or even Locusta. First century History must also to be studied with these women as central characters. Our paper aims to present a resume of the conclusions we have reached within a research on feminine participation in Politics in first century Rome, we have been developing.