CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Bride Kidnapping, Mos Maiorum, Pietas

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Roman adopion: a popular pracice among the romans, they would adopt adults; it was a way of compensaing for high mortality rates among children. Adrogaio: a younger man might even adopt as a son a man older then himself. Publius clodius pulcher: wanted to run for oice, was not able too run for oice, so he got himself adopted in 59 bc, so he could run for oice. Most famous adopion is related too the ides of march 44bc, just prior too the death of. Caesar, caesar had adopted a young man named gaius octavius thurinus (63-44bc) When adopted by a older man, you add your adopted fathers name in and anus at the end. This man changes his name too augustus 31bc- (julio-claudian dynasty), where he portrays himself as the father of the roman people. Much of the stability of rome was the thought of family, marriages were very important to the romans, only married once.