ARTICLES
Giorgos Mitropoulos
National Hellenic Research Foundation
Abstract: As part of the research program “Greek Matronae: Female Civic Presence and Self-Representation in Imperial Greece (1st – 3rd c. CE)”, financially supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (“3rd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to Support Post-Doctoral Researchers”) and kindly hosted by the National Hellenic Research Foundation – Institute of Historical Research (IHR/NHRF), this short note presents some illustrating remarks on the public actions of Regilla, a prominent woman of Roman Achaea, in two important cities of the province, Olympia and Corinth. The proper re-examination of her activities in these communities does justice in the case of this once-powerful woman who was evidently much more than just the wife of the notorious Athenian magnate Herodes Atticus.
The Lost Tale of a Powerful Woman – Regilla in the Roman Province of Achaea (pdf)