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569: Shiny Happy Certainty & How Women Led in the Early Church with Nijay Gupta

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The Role of Women in Roman Society

On paper, you might say Rome was a patriarchal society and men were that. But what we ignore is the overlay of economic class or social class upon that. If she's a high ranking woman, she has greater authority than men who are lower ranking men. And all kinds of men will submit to their authority because they have more wealth or status or power.

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