| We have achieved fruitful results in foreign countries in the study of ancientRoman women and a number of representative works have occurred. Domesticstudies in the history of ancient Rome women started later and focused on women’smarriage and family, religion and culture, the legal status and so on. Up until now, thestudy of the marriage life and political status about the Roman Empire Royal womenof this special group was less. This article will carry out a serious investigation in thisregard. I hope this article will be contribute to the study of the history of women inancient Rome.Time involved in this article is from44BC when Caesar was stabbed to68whenNero committed suicide. This article will focus on the description of the Royalwomen’s marriage life and their political experience in Roman Empire Julia-Claudiadynasty. This article will in detail sort out and analyze the works of classical writers,especially Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius etc and use many achievements ofmodern scholars home and abroad. This article will Comb out the basic history andget rid of the bias of the traditional historians and will from multiple angles discussand evaluate the Royal women’s life, marriage and political life in Julia-Claudiadynasty. About some of the seemingly absurd activities of some Royal women, thisarticle will have an analysis of the text and a reasonable inference, excluding theprejudices of ancient male writers, trying to give the Royal women an evaluationrelatively fair, objective and in line with the facts, so that the domestic academia willhave a more in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Roman aristocraticwomen’s social status and political role.The whole text contains three-parts: introduction, body and conclusion.The introduction is to introduce the studying background of Roman Royalwomen, the main object of study, the used method and historical resources as well asthe significance of this article.The body consists of three chapters. Chapter1briefly describes the aristocraticwomen’s social status and political tradition in ancient Rome. Chapter2describes andanalyzes the marriage and political life of main Royal women in early Julia-Claudiadynasty. Chapter3introduces and analyzes the marriage and political life of mainRoyal women in late Julia-Claudia dynasty.Conclusion summarizes the conditions, ways and motivations of Royal women’sparticipation in politics of Julia-Claudia dynasty, and analyzes the underlying causesof their failure. |
