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Cleopatra’s impact on Roman women, art and architecture. Cleopatra’s uraeus (regal insignia) Cleopatra’s melon hairstyle & wisps Roman melon hairstyle & wisps. Livia and Octavia’s counterpunch: Roman pudicitia (modesty), univira (“one-man woman”) & hairstyles.
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Cleopatra’s uraeus (regal insignia) Cleopatra’s melon hairstyle & wisps Roman melon hairstyle & wisps
Livia and Octavia’s counterpunch: Roman pudicitia (modesty), univira (“one-man woman”) & hairstyles Octavia & nodus, 1stBCE:invented by Octavia Livia & nodus, Rome, 1st CE:adopted by Livia, the so-called univira (married when she and Octavian met)
Adoption of pudicitia poses by Roman women (matronae) pudicitia pose, 1st BCE nodushairstyle and pudicitia pose adopted by matronae, 1st BCE
Mother and son: Cleopatra and Caesarion, Caesareum, Alexandria
Mother and son: Portico of Livia (PorticusLiviae) with shrine to Concordia, dedicated 7 BCE by Livia and Tiberius
Mother and son: PorticusOctaviaeand Theater of Marcellus, withlibrary, school, gardens & an art collection
Temple of Rome and Augustus, Athens, Acropolis, 27 BCE: Augustus’ “Cleopatran” guise