Aproximación a la figura de una matrona romana culta y poderosa. El caso de Julia Domna. – Approach to the figure of a cultured and powerful Roman matron. The case of Julia Domna

This work is aimed to do a synthesis of every primary source that speaks about Julia Domna – specially Dion Casio, Herodiano, Historia Augusta and Flavio Filostrato – as well as the main modern studies, with the objective of knowing the role and influence this woman might have exercised. Her role was not only based on the fact she was a midwife, but she also managed to be a wife and an emperor’s mother. Honoured with several adjectives such as Augusta, Pía, Felix or mater Augustorum and mater castrorum, her influence spread all over the Empire. Therefore, we are dealing with a figure that went out from the margins imposed to women by the Roman society.