ABSTRACT
The period since the 1960s has been described as ‘that Golden Age of historiography’.1 In the historiography of ancient societies (especially Roman) there has been both a revolution and an explosion. There has been an enormous amount of new writing relevant to the study of women in antiquity. Not only has there been specific and specialised scholarship on women (new examples of which follow in this volume), but there has been much progress in related fields, e.g. in family studies and in the archaeology of domestic space. This enables the study of women to be contextualised better than it has ever been.
