ABSTRACT
After a series of Roman civil wars in the first century BCE that rocked the republic, one of the newly established imperial government’s goals was to redefine itself as a community that was characterized by domestic values. The household was to be the central institution, around which Roman civic life was to be built. Augustus constantly focused on traditional family values-marriage, child raising, and women’s domestic work-in speeches, in legislation, and in public art, bringing what was considered the private sphere into public discussion and legislation (Milnor 2005: 4, 27).
