CLA233H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Terentia, Potestas, Pater Familias
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Cicero on duties: country and our parents, our children and our whole household, our relatives who are well disposed to us. Women would divorce their husbands and marry into higher families to go up in societal rankings. Conubium legal capacity to marry and to have legitimate offspring: had to be roman citizens, be of a legal age, 14 for men, 12 for women, not too closely related. Paterfamilias of woman determines style of marriage. Marriage sine manu (without the hand: patria potestas of her father religion family"s gods inheritance from father tutor guardian (after father"s death, divorce needs father"s approval father may also instigate divorce on her behalf. Cato the younger (based on plutarch"s accounts) influential statesman a questor a tribune of the plebs. Cato does not want to marry porcia to horentensius so he divorces his wife to marry her to hortensius, marcia remarries cato once hortensius dies. Ran the business and household: e. g.
