Tuesday, May 16, 2006

 
The Roman Family


-Male dominated society
-More freedom for women than in Greek society



-Marriage: for love?


-in manu

-sine manu

-divorce

-Ideal of the large household: frugal and moral; strict paterfamilias



-Soranus: how to recognize an infant worth rearing


-raising up of the infant

-dies lustricus (day of purification)

--bulla

-registration of birth



-wet nurse, paidagogus, grammaticus


-puberty ritual: toga praetexta into toga virilis

-girls married; boys began military training




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