women in caesar, sallust and the caesarian writers’ action and narration

Tacitus and other authors of imperial age ignored or denigrated women roles in their books. But this was done because of political or moral reasons, not due to reality. Today it is hard to support their opinions. Only from an understanding view of the important role of women in Roman society, both republican and imperial one, it is possible to study mentions of women in literature or historiography. This kind of studies, as they have been already realized about imperial age sources, must be done as well with republican period sources, in order to establish continuities, precedents or disparities in the treatment of woman question in Rome. In this article, we would start with Caesar, following with the authors of the so-called «Corpus Caesarianum», and finishing with Sallust.