ROMAN MARRIAGE AND RELATED MATTERS

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ROMAN MARRIAGEAND RELATED MATTERS

• Romantic Love or Social Control?

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Pompeian Husband and Wife (70s CE), Naples Museum
(ARTstor image)
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Agenda

• Honor-Shame Syndrome
• A Roman Thing?
• Surprise!
• Falzone, Singer, Pilkati on Williams on Roman
  Sexuality (cont.)
• Marriage and the Emperor
• The Augustan Legislation, the Ideals/Ideologies
  of Marriage

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Honor-Shame Syndrome

• A Roman Thing?

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Pan-Mediterranean Hypothesis
AKA honor-shame syndrome (McGinn)
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Social Status (Imperial Period)

• Honestiores
• including
• senatorial order
• equestrian order
• decurionate

• Humiliores
• including
• infames
• actors
• gladiators
• prostitutes
• meretrices, lupae (female)
• scorta (female/male)
• pimps/procuresses
• lenones
• lenae

McGinn, Thomas A. Prostitution, Sexuality, and
the Law in Ancient Rome. New York and Oxford
Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Surprise!

• Falzone, Singer, Pilkati on Williams on Roman
  Sexuality (cont.)

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Marriage and the Emperor

• The Augustan Legislation, the Ideals/Ideologies
  of Marriage

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Roman Marriage

• matrimonium
• conubium
• maritalis affectio
• cum manu
• usus
• coemptio
• confarreatio
• sine manu
• concubinatus
• contubernium

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The Augustan Legislation

• lex iulia et papia (18 BCE, 9 CE)

• lex iulia de adulteriis coercendis (18 BCE)