Women exiles in Rome during principatus era

Exile is a punitive practice that symbolizes the expulsion of the crimes that are not accepted in the political and social order from society by removing the offender from society. Considering the strong connection between the political precession of the city of Rome and its social ties, it can be said that the exile meant political and social destruction on behalf of its addressee. Moral regulations have an important place in Augustus' political and social transformation on the Roman state, the method of judging a Roman woman within the family in case of leaving the moral framework attributed to her by society since Romulus, transferred to the state courts since the punitive equivalents of these immoralities are determined by the Augustan laws. So, such crimes have become public crimes. From the point of view of the crime, it is similar to the guilt of a criminal of immorality, regardless of social class. However, it is seen that moral regulations and their examples in practice aim for upper-class women. On this basis, the exile which stipulated for women in the laws was being used to prevent Roman women who were involved in politics through princeps or in other political formations in which they were involved. In this context, it can be said that the practice of exile has turned into a threat tool in order to protect the political power in the hands of the ruler. The aim of this thesis is to identify the basic principles of the Roman exile system and to present the political and social transformation that took place in Rome with the period of the Principate, together with its effects on Roman women, on this basis, under which conditions and reasons exile was applied to women, by evaluating the examples that were passed to the sources during the Principate Period (BC 27- AD 284) to reveal.