Vivere in villa: il ruolo delle Augustae e della liberta Atte

Aristocratic and wealthy Roman women often owned multiple homes and country estates to indicate their family’s social and political importance. Not only women of the upper classes, especially the Augustae, were expected to be rich and influent, but also favourite imperial concubines like, for example, the freedwoman Atte. The Emperor Nero indeed gave her estates and brick factories especially in Sardinia and he allowed her to be engaged in business, als is documented by inscriptions.