- Cicero, Pro Cluentio
- Vergil: Aeneid V.779-798
- Livy I.8-13: The Rape of the Sabine Women
- Livy I. 57-60: The Rape of Lucretia and the End of the Monarchy
- Livy II.13: Cloelia
- Ovid: Metamorphoses VIII.51-66
- Pliny the Elder 34.25-31: Statues of Women
- Quintilian I.1.6: On Women’s Eloquence
- Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam
- Cornelius Nepos Frag. 59: The Letters of Cornelia
- Sulpicia: Opera omnia
- Claudia Severa
- Selected Inscriptions (from Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae )
- Pliny the Younger
- 3.16: Arria
- 7.5: To his wife
- Pliny Epistulae 7.24