The Virtuous Roman Woman

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The Virtuous Roman Woman

• Francesca DAmico
• Jennifer Gourley
• Tanya Segota

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Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea

• Forbade marriage of a senator or a senators
  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

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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 (remedyadoption)

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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

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Primary Sources

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• Lewis, Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold, eds.
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• Iuuenalis, Decimus Iunius. The Satires.
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