CLAS 1P92 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5 and 8: Contubernium, Roman Citizenship, Concubinage
Document Summary
Records literary evidence only for the upper class great social pressure to bury and commemorate the dead so those reflect wider populations: best sets of evidence fort he family life of the non-elite. Terms, concepts and shapes of the roman family familia is members of household under the legal power of the patria potestas/paterfamilias paterfamilias was the eldest free male in the household. Very complex in large houses: marital relationships for the good of the broader family, to produce legitimate offspring, concordia was keeping the peace between spouses. Implies uncomplaining attitude and lack of arguing in place of emotional warmth. Also suggests mutually respective attitudes between partners: divorce was not uncommon and that and death left a lot of women who remarried for financial stability. Roman ideal of univira, having only married once was not really in full force until later christian period. Intent was important for the legitimacy of a marriage.