Dominae and fashion: the Flavian matrons
At the end of the civil war between 68 and 69 AD, which broke out after Nero's death, the empire passed into the hands of Vespasian, who re-established the balance lost with the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. A man
Dominae and fashion: Julia Domna, the female side of Severan power
According to Cassius Dio, after Marcus Aurelius' death Rome would have passed «from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust»: indeed, after the killing of Commodus in 192 AD, it began a serious crisis, in which the