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8 Incidental Women in the Letters of Cicero
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Published:December 2023
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The purpose of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, the author collects the “data” on women outside of Cicero’s household in his correspondence, noting who they are, where they appear, and what they seem to be doing there. Further, however, the author uses these minor figures in the correspondence to explore both the benefits and pitfalls of reading through male discourse to find the lives of ancient women. Does the information provided by Cicero in passing have greater or lesser truth value than that which appears more inflected by authorial intention? What value to history lies in the process of focusing on the backdrop rather than those who take up the centre stage in the social play? What effect does it have on our understanding of “the historical” if we embrace the idea that women appear in its narrative not just accidentally, but as representatives of a deeper anti-history, which Cicero both represents and resists in his correspondence? In this way, the chapter does not merely offer a more detailed account of the incidental women in Cicero’s letters, but also a different perspective on their role in the stories we tell about the ancient past.
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