Roman Women In Ancient Rome By Helen E Wieand

During the period of ancient Rome women comprised of limited virtues and lived within a system designed by men; operated by men, directed to benefit men. According to historians far too little is known about women during this time period and due to that circumstance, detailing their everyday lives and endeavors is a troublesome task. Some spectacles have been preserved over the centuries of poems, or letters by noblewomen with upper class status and virtues. However those noblewomen scarcely represented the population of women living in ancient Rome. Generalizing from the artifacts preserved that the majority of women wrote poems, had access to an education, or simply spoke formal Latin would be a disservice. Therefore, knowledge of the routines and practices of the average women in ancient Rome are biased towards the upper class. …show more content…
When the comparison is made about the life of women in ancient Roma author Gillian Clark’s description of Roman Women far outweighs those made, by Helen E. Wieand, due to the process of informing her audience. Clark, introduces’ the very first stages of what it meant to be a women in ancient Rome from the early years of life, to their midlife, and lastly the average age of expectancy. While Wieand describes the roman women with a sense of bias since only women involved with the upper class or high marital status are mentioned throughout her article. Therefore Gillian Clark’s article, “Roman Women” better depicts the struggles of being inferior due to a mere basis of gender, to the socially and political endeavors that degraded women during ancient