HIST 3154 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Endogamy
20 Mar 2018
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Marriage was a private matter between the spouses (also between their families) both formation of marriage and its termination through divorce usually occurred without the government intervening or even being notified. Relative informality of marriage institutions in roman egypt. For women, age 12 was commonly associated with the onset of female puberty and hence considered the earliest appropriate time for female marriages. Begin to marry at or soon after the age of 12. By their late twenties, all women appear to be married or to have been married at least once. The earliest attested married male is 19 and the earliest age of paternity is 13, which maybe just an odd number as there are no further instances until age 17. By age 25 50% of males are married, implying that males were not adverse to fairly early marriage if possible. The rate of marriage slows after the age of 25.
