Women from Roman legend (often as illustrated in later art) and how their stories reveal male expectations of their womenfolk. historical women worthy of attention under ‘the Republic’, such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, the ‘unorthodox’ Clodia, Terentia (wife of Cicero), Fulvia (some-time wife of Mark Antony), and Cleopatra. the women folk of the household of Augustus (the first ‘emperor') [Livia, Julia, Antonia the Younger, Octavia, Agrippina the Elder] and of the households of the Julio-Claudian rulers [the sisters of ‘Caligula’, the wives of Claudius, and Nero’s overbearing mother, Agrippina the Younger]. the Flavian Dynasty – few women but a loyal mistress. the compliant women of the households of the ‘adoptive’ emperors (AD 98-180): wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, great-nieces – a ‘new breed’. and the assertive women of the Severan Dynasty, with a grandmother and mother actually ruling ‘the Empire’. A modest charge for ‘transcripts’ of the illustrated talks.