Women… do we need them…

Unfortunately, Roman history is all about males and politics. It's about what they do and how they do it. If you don't do anything interesting or if you're a female, writers and/or historians are usually not interested in you. This attitude is visible in the next quote from Valerius Maximus: "What business has a woman with a public meeting? If ancestral custom be observed, none. But when domestic quiet is stirred by the waves of sedition, the authority of ancient usage is subverted and compulsion of violence has greater force than persuasion and precept of restraint." [Valerius Maximus III.8.6] So besides our 25 male Scipiones, there are only 13 Scipionic female known: seven of them are daughters and six are wives.