an alternative argument for the fact that we see these women, and only these women, killing men is that it is only these women who fit into a familiar Roman narrative and so only these women were recorded. In the same way that men who are beaten by their wives in the modern world and women who kill their husbands out of jealousy, rage, mental illness or a desire for control are all but invisible in the modern world because they do not fit our familiar narrative of domestic violence, while frightened beaten women who stab their violent husbands are a trope of popular soap operas. The appearance
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