Murder in the Roman World
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Horrors of Being a Woman in the Ancient Rumor World
The rates of femicide and domestic murder must have just been off the sudden chart. There's a lot more which you can get from a pigraphy where people have put on their tombstones like this woman was murdered by her husband. But that's possibly the only justice that they ever got, naming him as a murderer. Anything that happened to women, it happens within a sphere which is not written about.
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