Women of Ancient Rome (To Survive under the Patriarchy)

The women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the "Mos maiorum," the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the "Confarreatio," which put a wife under the absolute power of her husband. She could not divorce him, but he could divorce her.

According to legend, Rome was a settlement of warlike young men, from Alba, an area in the Alban Hills just southeast of Rome.

When they settled there, they inaugurated the earliest of Rome’s traditions, including the relationship between men and women. Any woman who lapsed from the required level of "spectacular" virtue was fiercely punished, and the failings of women would often be the center of Rome’s legends, such as the battle between the Horatii in Rome and the Curiattii in Alba in the seventh century BC.

Women of Ancient Rome describes how early austerities gradually eased, yet retained the authority of the Paterfamilias in family life, also how the differing classes reacted to each other, exploring religion and "outsiders" such as soldiers’ wives, slaves, prostitutes and how the poor coped with a world giving them few personal choices.

With chapters on family and the importance of stoicism over affection, marriage and motherhood, priestesses, slaves and prostitutes, old age and death, Lynda Telford analyzes the struggle for survival of women from all classes under one of the oldest codified patriarchal systems devised.

This book title, Women of Ancient Rome (To Survive under the Patriarchy), ISBN: 9781398106994, by Lynda Telford, published by Amberley Publishing (July 11, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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