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The Virtuous Roman Woman

The Virtuous Roman Woman. Francesca D’Amico Jennifer Gourley Tanya Segota. Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea. Forbade marriage of a senator or a senator’s child to a prostitute Made conditions that prevented marriage illegal (For ex. Power to inherit only if remained unmarried is not permitted)

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The Virtuous Roman Woman

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  1. The Virtuous Roman Woman Francesca D’Amico Jennifer Gourley Tanya Segota

  2. Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea • Forbade marriage of a senator or a senator’s child to a prostitute • Made conditions that prevented marriage illegal (For ex. Power to inherit only if remained unmarried is not permitted) • Penalties for celibacy • A person with more children was preferred to one who had fewer

  3. Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea • Freedmen who had a certain number of children were freed "operarum obligatione" • libertae, who had four children, were released from the tutela of their patrons • married persons who had no children could only take one half of an hereditas which was left to them (remedy:adoption)

  4. Livia: Ideal Roman Woman • Wife of Augustus • Active in administering the Empire during Augustus' absence • Built her own imperial state buildings • First Empress to be deified after death • Was also the ideal matrona, was seen spinning wool

  5. Primary Sources Lewis, Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold, eds. "Funeral Eulogy of Turia." In The Republic and the Augustan Age, vol. 1 of Roman Civilization: Selected Readings, pp. 519-522. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Lewis, Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold, eds. "Murdia." In The Empire, vol. 2 of Roman Civilization: Selected Readings, p. 350. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

  6. "Proverbs 31:10-31." New American Standard Bible. La Habra: The Lockman Foundation, 1995. Iuuenalis, Decimus Iunius. The Satires. Translated by Niall Rudd. Edited by William Barr. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 1991.

  7. Secondary Sources Dixon, Suzanne. The Roman Mother. London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Cantarella, Eva. Pandora’s Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Translated by Maureen B. Font. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987. Cross, Suzanne. Feminae Romanae: The Women of Ancient Rome. 2001-2004, http://dominae.fws1.com/Index.html (8 March 2004).

  8. Finley, M.I. “The Silent Women of Rome”. In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources. Laura K. McClure, ed., pp. 149-153. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Joshel, Sandra R. and Sheila Murnaghan, eds. “Introduction”. In Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, pp. 3-7. London: Routeledge, 1998 Parker, Holt. “Loyal Slaves and Loyal Wives: The Crisis of the Outsider within Roman Exemplium Literature”. In Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture. Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan, eds, pp. 155-160. London: Routeledge, 1998. Sebesta, Judith Lynn. “Women’s Custume and Feminine Civic Morality in Augustinian Rome.” Gender and History 9, no. 3 (1997): pp. 529-541.

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