Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century ... were independent. Other wealthy women chose to become priestesses, of which the most important were the Vestal Virgins.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

For wealthy Romans, life was good. They lived in beautiful houses – often on the hills outside Rome, away from the noise and the smell. They enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle with luxurious ...

The English woman found the slab in her garden about ... the result of Grand Tours in the late 18th and 19th century, when wealthy aristocrats would tour Europe learning about Classical art ...

A statue of a young woman depicted as the goddess Juno The Roman Empire was polytheistic - this means that people worshipped more than one god. Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion ...