Caesar's Gallic woman under siege

Title: Caesar's Gallic woman under siege
Creator: Bellemore, Jane
Relation: Latomus Vol. 75, Issue 4, p. 888-909
Relation: http://www.latomus.be/en/article/caesars-gallic-woman-under-siege/
Publisher: Societe d'Etudes Latines de Bruxelles
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: In his Commentaries on the Gallic War, Caesar makes few references to women. In Book One, he records the existence of a few high-ranking women, but he does so only in terms of their relationships to important Gallic or German leaders, and he does not bother to name them. Even when he specifies that certain women were captured or killed, he refers to them generically, not by name, and only rarely does he attribute any function to women outside the confines of the household. Caesar’s lack of interest in the activities of women is not surprising because his Commentarii describe events in the theatre of war. and here women had no role as actors, only as victims/ Despite this almost singular focus on men’s affairs, there are three anecdotes that centre on the actions and attitudes of Gallic women in towns under military threat from the Romans: the first at Bratuspantium, the second at Avaricum, and the third, at Gergovia.
Subject: Commentaries on the Gallic War; Caesar; Gallic women
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340252
Identifier: uon:28427
Identifier: ISSN:0023-8856
Language: eng
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