ABSTRACT
Women also participated in canvassing. Although many scholars have considered their role important, it has never been systematically studied.2 My aim in this paper is to analyse in detail the electoral posters made by Pompeian women and to discuss the role of women in Pompeian municipal politics. Why did women endorse candidates publicly? What were the relationships between candidates and supporters? I work on the assumption that the women were not a homogeneous group, but differed in terms of, for example, social status. I also assume that the programmata made by women did not differ from those made by men or groups in terms of either format or motives. In this way analysis of programmata made by women can also shed light on the background and underlying motives of programmata in general.
