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Women’s Life in Ancient Rome

Women’s Life in Ancient Rome. This PowerPoint presentation accompanies Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3 Women’s Life in Ancient Rome 200 BCE – 250 CE. We are looking at the city of Rome. Hi! I am Mundo!. Is anything missing?. 2. Shouldn’t we add some people?. Some soldiers?.

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Women’s Life in Ancient Rome

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  1. Women’s Life in Ancient Rome This PowerPoint presentation accompanies Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3 Women’s Life in Ancient Rome 200 BCE – 250 CE

  2. We are looking at the city of Rome. Hi! I am Mundo! Is anything missing? 2

  3. Shouldn’t we add some people? Some soldiers?

  4. How about more people? Some senators?

  5. How about gladiators and charioteers?

  6. Wait! What about women?

  7. That’s better! You cannot leave out half of the population!

  8. What did women in Rome do? Young girls from elite families went to school and learned to read and write and to do math. Lege (Read): Xenophon Demosthenes

  9. They played with dolls. Some entered into the service of the goddess Vesta and remained there for 30 years.

  10. When elite girls grew up they ran their household and supervised their slaves. Do you like the kitchen?

  11. They participated in religious rites and ceremonies. They wrote poetry and letters.

  12. Hello. I am Julia Domna. Ancient writers say I helped Septimius Severus rule the empire. And if the elite woman was the wife or mother of the emperor, she could give political advice!

  13. What about the many women who did not belong to the elite? They did not go to school when they were young. Instead, they started working, just like their parents. Many children started working when they were as young as five.

  14. Some women owned their own shops.

  15. Non-elite women could also take part in religious rites and festivals. This is the goddess Minerva … but you already knew that!

  16. And slave women always had to work for their masters.

  17. Yes, they were allowed to participate in some of them. Did slaves participate in religious rites and festivals? And they got a break from work during certain holidays!

  18. If they were rich they lived in a big house. Women in Rome got married and had kids. The poor were not so lucky … 18

  19. When they died they were sometimes commemorated. A baking oven, huh? That is unusual … Some tombs were unusual!

  20. The End This PowerPoint presentation accompanies World History for Us All Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3 Women’s Life in Ancient Rome 100 BCE – 450 CE

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