Gender Roles In The Ancient Roman Republic

These gender roles also were found in the education system that was being used to assimilate the current culture into this new rebirth of a modified ancient Roman culture of the Renaissance as we saw in the letter of Peter Paul. But in looking at another letter that was written in 1405 by Leonardo Bruni to Lady Baptista Malatesta it can be seen that certain subjects are not lady like and therefore should be restricted or censored when it comes to the education of the women. These restrictions can be seen in this letter when it states, “For instance, subtleties of Arithmetic and Geometry are not worthy to absorb a cultured mind, and the same must be said of Astrology. You will be surprised to find me suggesting (though with much more hesitation) …show more content…
This realization that change was needed came mainly from upper-class writers that had been looking upon the ancient Roman Republic, because of their obsession with that culture, and saw a totally different society. They saw an education system that formed the Roman Republic’s culture along with gender roles that were opposed to the current culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This caused the upper-class writers of the time to feel obligated to act and set all that had gone wrong in society back to what they considered right. This would include the reinstitution or revitalization of the education system and reimplementation of the gender roles. These two components that had disappeared in the time between the Roman Republic and the fourteenth and fifteenth century. This would include the inclusion of Latin and Greek literature from the Roman Republic that would become known as Humanism. To be able to bring back the currently unpopular gender roles, women’s education would need to be censored and restricted. This would reaffirm the woman’s place as home caretaker, entertainer, and male support agent. This is what was considered lady like and this would be fostered by the control of their