Roman wives, Roman widows the appearance
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Bruce W Winter
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Fiction
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2010;2003
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Eerdmans
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English
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In Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire - a woman whose provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle contrasted starkly with the decorum of the tra