Roman Wives, Roman Widows Karen M. Evans Brigid Long Night

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Roman Wives, Roman Widows Karen M. Evans Brigid Long NightIn Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A. D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire a woman whose provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle contrasted starkly with the decorum of the traditional married woman. What a woman chose to wear came to identify her as either "new" or "modest." Augustus legislated against the "new" woman.