Questions to think about after reading about these "superwomen":

• Why did these women act the way that they did?
• Do you think that they had a choice in their actions, whether they chose "wisely" or not?
• Could there be a correlation between the time periods in which these women flourished and their respective actions?
• Do these actions indicate the effectiveness of the Augustan regime?

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Corbier, Mireille. "Male Power and Legitimacy through Women: The
    domus  Augusta under the Julio-Claudians." Women in Antiquity: New
    Assessments. Eds. Richard Hawley & Barbara Levick. London: Routledge,
    1995.

OCD: Oxford Classical Dictionary. Eds. Simon Hornblower & Antony
    Spawforth. 3rd ed. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.