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25 Cards in this Set
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Potestas |
- Roman citizens began in the power of his or her father - remained util the fathers death - after father's death, all those in his potestas became independent and normally inherited his property |
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Right of Three Children |
- Augustus introduced this, as an incentive for parenthood - it freed free-born women with three children or freed salve-women with four from tutela
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Tutela |
- Guardianship - sagegaurd the estate after the death of a girl's father |
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Twelve Tables |
- codification and written publication of Roman Law on 12 bronze tablets posted in the Roman Forum (#108) |
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Cum manu |
- 'with the hand', wife goes wholly into husband's potestas, dowry becomes his property |
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Sine manu |
'without the hand', wife remains in potestas of her father, and control of her dowry is retained by her father |
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Stola |
A dress worn over the tunic by Roman matrons (married women)
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Toga |
Derives from the latin word ‘tegere’ meaning to cover. It was a loose outer garment without sleeves which was open from the waist upwards, worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle.
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Vestal |
- Priestesses of Vesta, goddess of hearth - They cultivated the sacred fire that was not allowed to go out. - The Vestals were freed of the usual social obligations to marry and bear children and took a vow of chastity in order to devote themselves to the study. |
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Matronalia |
A festival celebrating juno Lucina, the goddess of childbirth and of motherhood and women in general |
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Bona Dea |
- (The Good Goddess), is a Roman fertility goddess, especially worshipped by the Roman matrons
-Seems to have been connected with fostering the fertility of women. |
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Consus |
the protector of grains and storage bins, and as such was represented by a corn seed
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Consualia |
Roamn festivals in honor of Consus, a tutelary deity of the harvest and stored grain.It was held on August 18, at the tie of harvest, adn again on December 15, in conenction with grain storage; the verb Condita comes from this word
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Claudia Quinta |
Embodied the greatest virtues of Roman womanhood - chastity, piety, and fortitude |
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Clea |
Emphasis on female learning, prominent social roles, very learned |
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Sabines |
- members of ancient Italic trie - known for their religious practices and beliefs, and serval Roman institutions were said to have derived from them |
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Tarpeia |
- daughter of the commander of the Capitol in Rome during the Sabine War |
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Cloelia |
- hostage narrative, she knows how to swim, shows the agency of women |
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lucretia |
- commits suicide after rape by son of king, Tarquinius Superbus; had qualities of a perfect wife=chastity, didn’t go to parties or drink wine, instead stayed home and did wool-working; |
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Oppian Law |
wartime law saying women cannot wear nice clothing, conspicuous consumption; |
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Mother of the Gracchi |
ornelia; fidelity because she wouldn’t remarry after being widowed even after offered land and money, intelligence because she warns her younger son against his course of action; |
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Hortensia |
women protested and organized, spoke to lawmakers directly, argument forced men to reevaluate tax proposal, women+logic=more political power; |
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Turia |
amazing wife, did everything for her husband (who had been proscribed), saved his property when they tried to take it away, she offered to divorce her husband so he could have children, since she couldn’t; eulogy: funeral inscription, what the guy put on the tomb for his wife, a remarkable inscription
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Perpetua |
Christian noblewomen who at the turn of the third century, lived wiht her husband, her son, and her slave, Felicitas, in Carthage |
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Thecla
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saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. |
