Exhuming gender : interpreting Roman women through epithets and epitaphs
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2011
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This paper explores the definition of the female gender throughout the Roman female life course and how it was reflected in funerary epitaphs. By applying contemporary secondary research on the female life course to funerary epitaphs, this paper follows the changing definition of the female gender through females‟ life course transitions from the stage infantia, to puella, virgo, matrona, and finally to anus. Viewing these transitions through the lens of epithetic trends gives an insight into the lives of ordinary Roman females and demonstrates how a female's transition through the stages of the life course was measured in terms of gender.