Transcript Roles of Women - missyoungsclass

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Naming Girls
 Males had 3 parts- praenomen, nomen, and
cognomen
 Females were known by father’s nomenfeminine and genitive cognomen (husband’s
or father’s)
 Praenomen and agnomen were optional
Girls VS Boys
 Girls and boys were taught until 7
 The boys would go to a teacher
 Also taught by father (occupational)
 Married early
 Boys had a coming of age celebration and discarded
the red toga
 Nothing for girls
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Girl’s Education
 Girls from poor families didn’t receive an
education
 Rich families received one at home
 Taught how to run a good household
 How to be a good wife
 Music, sewing, and running a kitchen
Marriage
 The boys had to be at least 14
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 The girls had to be 12
 Engagement not required
 The bride's family might provide slaves, clothing,
jewels, furniture
 Night before wedding- girl gives her bulla
to her father
 Wedding dress was a straight tunic
 Most important was the belt in a knot of
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 Consent had to be shown in public first by holding hands.
Consent was shown again during the wedding ceremony,
and once again at the door of her new home, before she
entered.
 Would stand before a priest, hold hands
 The bride had to consent to the marriage during the
wedding ceremony, this time by saying words of consent in
public.
 They sat on stools, facing the alter. An offering was made to
the god Jupiter, which usually consisted of cake. Once the
priest had made the offering, this cake was eaten by the
bride and groom.
Household rights
 Women took care of the household
 No rights
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 Could not even make a suggestion to husband
 Men had complete control over her actions
 When Rome became a republic, she could suggest
 Under the Empire, it became legal for women to own
land, run businesses, free slaves, make wills, inherit
wealth, and get a paid job.
Roman Women’s Clothes
Tunica and
stola
Palla
Tunica- everyday
use, normally
pale pink or blue
Stola- married
women , full
length tunic
Covered with a
long cloak to
appear more
modest
Palla- large shawl
Women’s jewelry and accessories
Fibula- a pin
Parasol- like an umbrella,
popular after the republic
All common jewelry was
popular
fibula
parasol
Roman ring
Roman necklace
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Jobs of the woman
 Un-married women only, unless helping
their husbands
 They could be priestesses, midwives, and
hair dressers
 Evidence of doctors
 Most important jobs were for men
Ideal roman woman
 The ideal roman woman was not the ideal woman of
today
 should be:
 Beautiful and Rich
 Submissive and a Good cleaner
Powerful women weren’t uncommon
 Ruled through their husbands
 Eclipsed those of lower status on record
 Men did not like that they were so free
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Famous women of Rome
Cloelia
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 For a treaty with Clusium, hostages were taken by
Porsena
 Cloelia fled the Clusian camp with a group
 She fled on horse and swam across the Tiber
 Romans returned her
 Allowed to free half of the hostages
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Famous women of Rome
Lucretia
Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus,
wanted Lucretia
At night, Sextus entered her bedroom
He gave her choices: she could submit to his sexual
advances and become his wife and future queen, or he
would kill her and one of her slaves
She submitted
She drew a dagger and stabbed herself in the heart