Written by ONLINE via MS Teams
4 Burton Walks, LE11 4DU
Wed 20th March 2024
Free online talk by Dr Kathryn Tempest, Lecturer in Roman History at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
The advocates, defendants, witnesses and the jury that we meet in the pages of Cicero’s surviving speeches are nearly always men. Yet every now and then a woman steps into steal the limelight – and the result is rarely positive. In this lecture, Kathryn Tempest explores Cicero’s presentation of two infamous women, Clodia and Sassia, to examine why his character assassinations worked and what this information reveals about attitudes towards gender in ancient Rome.
