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Marriage and Family in Ancient Rome
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Bibliography
- D’Ambra, Eve. Roman Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Shaw, Brent D. "The Age of Roman Girls at Marriage: Some Reconsiderations." The Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987): 30. Web.
- Hersch, Karen K. The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.
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- In death:
- Women mourn 10 months
- Men can remarry immediately
- Univiria / matrona
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- Lost love or fidelity
- Children go to men usually
- Division of valuables
- Not much effect on social standing
Fig. 5
- Bride arrives and performs ritual act
- Announces consent
- Couple grasp right hands
- Marriage only completed at birth of first child
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- Introduction of couple to the community
- Bride adorned + veiled at home
- Seeks omens
- Leaves for groom's home
- Crime and shame
- Favored men
- Moral reform over time
Fig. 3
Marriage and Family in Ancient Rome
- Legal heirs only if legal marriage
- matrimonium iustum
- 3 requirements
- Citizens
- Age/Physical maturity
- No close relation
- Implicit requirements
- At least 12
- Virgin
- Life-changing
- At least 14
- Sexually experienced
- Not nearly as life-changing as for a woman
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- Boys study as members of the State
- Sports and athletics
- Entrance into military
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- Girls study to be good wives
- Dolls meant to represent perfect wife
- Reminiscent of Barbie
- Kept under close supervision of parents
- 3 types of Non-legal marriage
- matrimonium iniustum
- concubinatus
- contubernium
- Consent
- Independent
- Patria Potestate
- Manus
- Usus
- Coemptio
- Confarreatio
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- Famous example = Nero
- Controversial
- Legal, but upset concept of marriage
- Couldn't reproduce
- Women see marriage as a vocation
- Men see marriage as a duty
- Patriarchal
- Wife has similar power as the daughter