"Rosie the Roman"
In my Augustan Literature Survey class we read the Laudatio Turiae, a funerary inscription from Rome describing the life of an exceptional woman from the days of the Civil Wars and afterwards--who ensured her murdered parents were avenged, protected her and her husband's inheritance, supported her husband when he was hiding from the proscriptions, and secured his eventual pardon.
Her heroism on the home-front inspired this bit of anachronism.
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