Presentations

The 79th International Congress of the Société Internationale Fernand de Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité invites participants to engage in a broad and rigorous reflection on the presence, role, and legal representation of women in ancient societies. Under the title Women in the Law of Antiquity, the conference seeks to explore how law, history, tradition, and collective memory shaped the position of women across the ancient world.

Ancient sources—legal, literary, epigraphic, and historiographical—provide us with very valuable information about the presence of women in the society and law of antiquity. They also reveal the existence of tensions between normative constraints and the social and legal-economic integration and inclusion of women, which allowed the opening of spaces for female initiative and the elevation of certain female figures who became universal ideological models, fundamental for the construction of contemporary political and social identities.