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This document provides commentary on an excerpt from a Roman funerary inscription honoring a wife named Turia. The commentary discusses: 1) The genre of the inscription and how its rhetorical conventions may distort perceptions of Turia. 2) The social expectations for Roman women in Augustan Rome, including the pressure to have children and their role within the domestic sphere. 3) How the inscription depicts Turia possessing both traditional female virtues like devotion to her husband, as well as male

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Ngachung Lai

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