* Connelly, Joan Breton, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, Princeton University Press, 2007.

Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, University of Texas Press.

War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome ( London, 1991 ).

* Connelly, Joan Breton Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-691-12746-8

Valentinian I may have divorced Severa according to Roman Law, which allowed for divorce ( see Women in Ancient Rome ).

1 ): Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece.

* Laurin, Joseph R., Women of Ancient Athens, Trafford Publishing ( 2006 ).

The poem is very long despite not all of it surviving the centuries, and can be found in a copy of Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by I. M. Plant.

* Plant, I. M., Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, London: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

* Women of Ancient Egypt and the Sky Goddess Nut, by Susan Tower Hollis, The Journal of American Folklore, 1987.

Vicki Leone contrasts this in her book Uppity Women of Ancient Times, noting that the Sumerians paintings and mosaics depict a people possessing dark blue eyes.

Derek Collins ), " Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Functions ", Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

* Moya K. Mason, Ancient Roman Women: A Look at their Lives.

" Women and Marriage in Ancient Rome.

" In a 1986 article for Women of Power magazine called " Ancient Gorgons: A Face for Contemporary Women's Rage ," Emily Erwin Culpepper wrote that " The Amazon Gorgon face is female fury personified.

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome ( Routledge, 1991 )

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Functions.

* Women in Ancient Rome

* Divine and Human: Women in Ancient Mexico and Peru ( March 3, 2006 – May 28, 2006 )

* Women in Ancient India by Clarisse Bader.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt.

* 752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.

To provide his citizens with wives, Romulus invited the neighboring tribes to a festival in Rome where he abducted the young women from amongst them ( known as The Rape of the Sabine Women ).

Women were also numbered amongst his students, including Gemina, in whose house he lived during his residence in Rome, and her daughter, also Gemina ; and Amphiclea, the wife of Ariston the son of Iamblichus.

* Catilina's conspiracy and Cicero's actions as Consul figure prominently in the novel Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough as a part of her Masters of Rome series.

* 752 BC — Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.

The Sabines, who immigrated to Rome following the Rape of the Sabine Women, settled on the Capitoline.

Rape of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin, Rome, 1637 – 38 ( Louvre Museum )

* Women in Rome

Here he painted the The Rape of the Sabine Women, a vast panorama of mounted warriors carrying off the Sabine women to Rome.

* Clodius is a key player in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series books Caesar's Women and Caesar.

According to Festus, she changed her name to Gaia Caecilia ( called Gaia Cyrilla in Boccaccio's On Famous Women ) when she arrived at Rome, although some Roman historians also commonly spelled her name Caia Caecilia or Caia Cyrilla.

A scene from Leech's Comic History of Rome, depicting the Rape of the Sabine Women.

But while Roman women held no direct political power, those from wealthy or powerful families could and did exert influence through private negotiations .< ref > Kristina Milnor, " Women in Roman Historiography ," in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians ( Cambridge University Press, 2009 ), p. 278 ; Ann Ellis Hanson, " The Restructuring of Female Physiology at Rome ," in Les écoles médicales à Rome: Actes du 2 < sup > ème </ sup > Colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, Lausanne, septembre 1986 ( Université de Nantes, 1991 ), p. 256 .</ ref > Exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history range from the semi-legendary Lucretia and Claudia Quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance ; fierce Republican-era women such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image ; women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, most prominently Livia, who contributed to the formation of Imperial mores ; and the empress Helena, a driving force in establishing Christianity as the official religion of Rome.

Women priests played a prominent and crucial role in the official religion of Rome.

Women in ancient Rome took great care in their appearance, though extravagance was frowned upon.

* Women in Rome

* Women in Rome