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T1 Marriage in the Roman Imperial Period
A1 Mantas, Konstantinos
K1 Humanidades
K1 Humanities
K1 Historia Antigua
K1 History, Ancient
AB The subject of the aforementioned article is the new meaning which wasgiven to the institution of marriage by the Stoic philosophers of the early Romanimperial period, which was also mirrored in the legal and epigraphical texts ofthe Principate.Both the less known literary texts (i.e Artemidorus' «Oneirocritica») and theinscriptions, prívate and public, present a new ideal of marriage : it seems thatthe Roman elite wife had had the obligation to help, financially, her husband toshoulder his public burden, sharing with him religious and public offices, whereasher role as sexual partner and friend of her husband had been upgraded.The greater legal freedom which many elite women enjoyed in the Principate,due to imperial legislation, which gave privileges to mothers (starting withAugustus' grant of the ius trium liberorum), enabled wealthy women, even ifthey were of humbler descent, to become successful «bussinesswomen» andadministrators of their own property, despite the prevalence of the sexism inRoman law, whose purpose was to keep female -owned property intact, for thesake of theirs and their husbands' male kin.Widows, if they belonged to the upper echelons of society, could prosperwhereas the poor ones had to struggle in order to survive in a male- dominatedsociety. Christianity, with its ascetic ideáis, gave a new, elevated, status to widowswho refused to remarry and, also, to etemal virgins.
PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 1999
FD 1999
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5608
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5608
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 18-abr-2024