Idea for an Ancient Roman Woman's rise to fame?( can be made up!)?

Answer 1

Well, she could be a courtesan and gain power that way. a woman might be able to exercise power "under the table" by influencing the man in charge of her. The reference below states that women had to be under guardianship at all times (their father, their husband, their son or other male guardian was the rule) I don't believe women were able to inherit or anything like that. Non-citizens might have had a little more leeway in accumulating power.
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Answer 2

It depends on how ancient you want your Roman woman to be. The ideal in truly ancient Rome, at the time of the Republic, was that neither her name nor her person should cross the doorstep of her house. You will have to read history to decide what Roman woman you want to imitate.

For truly ancient Roman women, read Plutarch's "Lives of the Eminent Greeks and Romans." There may be some in there. Otherwise, you may have to look for ancient stories in which ancient Roman mothers and wives urged their sons and husbands to do great things.

For Roman women who became personally famous later, read Suetonius, "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars," Tacitus's "Histories," and his "Annals."

If you go to the Eastern Roman Empire of Justinian and Theodora of the 500's in Constantinople, read Procopius, "The Secret History" available as a cheap paperback. Theodora's rise from obscurity as the daughter of a bear-trainer in the hippodrome has been done as a historical novel.

Answer 3

BECOME A COURTESAN TO THE VERY RICH AND INFLUENTIAL