The law sided with the wife and children if a husband acted against their interests. Her property remained hers it was not to be squandered by a wastrel husband. Until the time an ex-wife’s dowry was returned, she was entitled to be lodged in the house of her choice. They enjoyed the right to divorce and to be supported after a divorce. Married women did not submit to their husbands’ control. They inherited equally and held property independently. Over time their liberties had increased, to levels unprecedented in the ancient world. Well before her and centuries before the arrival of the Ptolemies, Egyptian women enjoyed the right to make their own marriages.
“Cleopatra moreover came of age in a country that entertained a singular definition of women’s roles.
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