Roman Family and Society

Question 1

Familia

Answer 1

Family

Question 2

Paterfamilias

Answer 2

Head of house, father

Possesses patria potestas: power over his family and their peculiar (property)

Question 3

Horatii Triplet Story

Answer 3

Livy:
3 Brothers from Rome during Tullus Hostillius’ reign had to battle the Curiatii (3 brothers from Alba Longa) - Horatii won
-Had to walk under beam = yoke of submission (looking like an ox, pulling the plow)

-First time someone condemned in Rome can appeal to the populace

Question 4

Marriage

Answer 4

Sign of concord, almost like employment

Political ties

Question 5

Divorce

Answer 5

First used only for marital faults like adultery, infertility, etc. but changed over time to be a mutual decision

Question 6

Slaves

Answer 6

• Property of the paterfamilias and had no freedom of their own
  
  • Teachers, accountants, etc. all slaves
  • Unlike Roman citizens, they could be executed, exploited, tortured
• Roman slaves could hold property (belonging to their masters), skilled/educated slaves could earn their own money and save enough for their freedom

Question 7

Freed Slave

Answer 7

• Could become Roman citizens, ‘libertas’
  
  • Freedman, client of former master (patron), paid ceremonial visits in honor to his master (salutation) - in the atrium of the family house in the morning

Question 8

Housing

Answer 8

-Typical Atrium style or Insulae (apartments)

Question 9

Funerary

Answer 9

• The dead is carried in a procession, then placed reclining. They then read the virtues/accomplishments of the person, then buried
• Dressed as they would when alive
• Consuls or praetors = gown bordered with purple
• Censors = purple robe
• Triumphed =vest embroidered with gold
• Masks were made and placed in the house preserve youth
• Polybius