Dr. Ulriika Vihervalli |

This paper examines the role of women in late antique urban unrest - in particular it takes a discursive approach, analysing how contemporary historians depicted a woman's place on occasions of civic violence. On the surface, women are in victimised positions: beaten, sexually abused, and killed. While these depictions are strengthening much older topoi set in particular by Livy and Tacitus, the paper argues that the late antique context exacerbated female-targeted violence, which Christian writers often sought to disguise.

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