This paper tackles the position of women in ancient society and depicts her role throught their life, from birth to death. Illustrating the role and position of women from birth, childhood, in education, marriage, death and through epitaphs. Chronicling the standard of a woman's life based on relevant literature, describing the inner workings of their societal and legal aspects of life and their stature. Clarifying the systems of virtue and the idealisation of women as wives. Bringing a description of birth from a woman's perspective through the participation of parents and midwives in the proces of birth. Depicting and explaining the presentation of children. Through childhood and education of women and the uniqueness of marriage and it's ceremonies the vital importance of the woman of the time is detailed. Respectable women, who lived according to the notions of perfection gained the status of matron and univire. In order to finalise the picture and to depict the sheer span of societal roles, death and epitaphs from tombstones are detailed. With the example of several epitaphs striving to gain a general stance of Romans towards women.