The Dangers of Powerful Women? Rome and Britain in the time of Nero

Roman writers contrast the masculine rule of their Empire with the dangerously powerful role of women such as Boudicca amongst some of their barbarian subjects. What role did women have in the power structures of the Roman Empire? Professor Catharine Edwards is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London and presenter of BBC4’s Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000131?id=EVENT459712