marriage + education

Question 1

In the Early Republic, where did education begin?

Answer 1

Began with the mother

Question 2

What is loyalty and duty to the state called?

Answer 2

pietas

Question 3

In the Early Republic, what did the fathers do?

Answer 3

Fathers took over boys at age 6
-Taught through emulation
-learned farming and how to fight in the military
-attended debates and participated in religous ceremonies
-taught respect for authoruty, self-sacrifice, and self-control

Question 4

What are the household gods that sat on a shelf in the atrium?

Answer 4

Lares

Question 5

In the Late Republic, who took over the duties of the mother?

Answer 5

Slaves

Question 6

What problems did school bring?

Answer 6

-Individual thinking
-Rebelling against old traditions and values

Question 7

Who taught students at the elementary school?

Answer 7

litterator

Question 8

Who accompanied students to school?

Answer 8

paedogogus

Question 9

When did the school year begin?

Answer 9

March 24

Question 10

What is the payment a teaching slave would receive?

Answer 10

peculium

Question 11

What are the wax tablets that students wrote on called?

Answer 11

tabula

Question 12

What was their form of a pencil

Answer 12

stylus

Question 13

Who taught students at High School

Answer 13

grammaticus

Question 14

Who taught students at college

Answer 14

rhetors

Question 15

What was the one major in college

Answer 15

rhetoric

Question 16

What are the three things in rhetoric

Answer 16

ethos, pathos, logos

Question 17

What was the arrangement of public speeches?

Answer 17

Prooemium - Prologue used to catch interest or goodwill
Narrative - Set out facts of the case
Confirmation - Argued the speaker’s point of view
Refutation - Disproves the argument of the opponent
Epilogue - Summarize and provoke an emotional reaction

Question 18

What kind of marriage was Roman marriage

Answer 18

monogamous

Question 19

Where do the marriages get their roots from?

Answer 19

The Rape of the Sabines

Question 20

What are the purposes for Roman marriage

Answer 20

-property
-citizenship
-children
-politics

Question 21

What did Roman marriage have to be

Answer 21

consensual

Question 22

Both parties needed whose permission to marry

Answer 22

the father’s

Question 23

What was the dad being the head of the family called

Answer 23

pater familias

Question 24

What was the authority the father had called?

Answer 24

patria postestas

Question 25

What was the Roman age of consent?

Answer 25

12 for girls 14 for boys

Question 26

What are the two classes of marriage?

Answer 26

cum manu - Early Republic sine manu - Later Republic and Empire

Question 27

What is the main difference between the two types of marriage?

Answer 27

property rights

Question 28

What are the three types of cum manu marriage?

Answer 28

confarreatio coemptio usus

Question 29

What is confarreatio marriage?

Answer 29

-only for patricians -required the prescence of 10 witnesses; including the Pontifex Maximus -huge sacrifice to Jupiter -the most sacred of the marriages -no divorce allowed -spouses required to remain faithful even if one dies -bride and groom shared a spelt cake

Question 30

What is Coemptio marriage?

Answer 30

-"by purchase" -one of 2 plebeian marriages -involved a fake "sale" of bride to groom -require 5 witnesses to sign the contract -a ceremonial 'price' would be paid to the father by the groom

Question 31

What is Usus marriage?

Answer 31

-habitual cohabitation -the same as our common law marriages -only required a statement from the husband to marry -bride and groom then just lived together -after a year, they were considered married -wife could cancel the agreement by remaining away for 3 consecutive nights

Question 32

In cum manu, who becomes part of whose family?

Answer 32

women became part of the husband's family

Question 33

What could be recovered upon divorce?

Answer 33

dos (dowry)

Question 34

What is a dowry

Answer 34

a gift (often money) given to the groom by the father of the bride upon marriage

Question 35

In sine manu, what did the wife remain as?

Answer 35

legally remained a member of her father's family

Question 36

What are all the days that were unlucky?

Answer 36

-the Kalends, Nones, or Ides and the days after each of these -the entire monthe of May -Feb 13-21 -March 1-20 -June 5-15 -the days the Underworld were supposedly open: August 24th, October 5th, November 8th -the days the Romans had suffered defeats in battle: July 8th and August 2nd

Question 37

What is a formal engagement?

Answer 37

sponsa

Question 38

What is the engagement party called?

Answer 38

Sponsalia

Question 39

What is the "protective amulet" that the woman would place on the altar on the eve of the wedding

Answer 39

bulla

Question 40

What is the white, ankle-length tunic that the bride wears?

Answer 40

tunica recta

Question 41

What is the bright orange silk veil?

Answer 41

flammueum

Question 42

What is the name of the boy who would walk behind the woman and carry her childhood toys?

Answer 42

camilus

Question 43

What would people shout at the bride and groom that basically meant "good luck"

Answer 43

talassio

Question 44

What was the title of the bride's mother?

Answer 44

pronuba

Question 45

What did the bride say to the groom?

Answer 45

"Ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia" (where you are, I am)

Question 46

Upon the death of her husband, how long was the woman expected to be in a state of mourning?

Answer 46

10 months