Roman men have a kind of ambivalent attitude towards women in their families. A patter familiar has power of life and death over all his family, including the women. So there's no matriarchy in Rome. Women have important roles to play in the dynastic politics that is the fabric of the way that the republic had functioned.
At its peak, the Roman Empire was perhaps the greatest civilisation in history. But like so many cultures before and after it, it declined and finally ended.
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