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When reading about the family in ancient Rome, it is important to realize the Roman family was in some ways very different from modern families. ... The Roman family was called familia, from which Latin word 'family' is derived. The familia could include the triad with which we are familiar, two parents and children...
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Definition: Pater familias was master of the house, the father of the family, including blood relatives and slaves. For more on the role of the pater familias, see this the Roman Family article. ... Alternate Spellings: paterfamilias, pater familiae...
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Roman society was based on paterfamilias (="father of the family"): ... only husband could initiate divorce ... girls governed by paterfamilias unless his power transmitted to a husband through manus marriage...
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www.roebuckclasses.com/101/resources/Rome/paterfamilias...
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The Roman hierarchy designated certain leaders as the [paterfamilias] (dammit) of individual groups. The father was the paterfamilias of his family, the king was the paterfamilias of state (later the Pontifex Maximus shared this distinction at the state level), and Jupiter was the paterfamilias of all creation.
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Until recently, descriptions of the Roman family routinely attributed to the head of household the right of life and death over his wife, children of any age, and slaves, and assumed he exercised it.
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To become a paterfamilias a Roman man had to a) be a citizen; and b) his father had to die. Until a father, died he exercised patriapotestas (paternal power) over his sons unless he formally chose to free them of his authority by an arcane legal ritual that resembled the ritual for manumission of slaves.
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www.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/pater.htm
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Augustus is arguably the single most important figure in Roman history. In the course of his long and spectacular career, he put an end to the advancing decay of the Republic and established a new basis for Roman government that was to stand for three centuries.
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www.roman-emperors.org/auggie.htm
www.roman-emperors.org/auggie.htm
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[[23]] Constantine was now the sole and undisputed master of the Roman world. ... Hunt, E. D. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire AD 312-460 (Oxford 1982), Chapters 1-2. ... Wightman, Edith Mary. Roman Trier and the Treveri. London 1970.
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www.roman-emperors.org/conniei.htm
www.roman-emperors.org/conniei.htm
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Roman Society, Roman Life ... Every five years, each male Roman citizen had to register in Rome for the census. In this he had to declare his family, wife, children, slaves and riches. Should he fail to do this, his possessions would be confiscated and he would be sold into slavery.
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www.roman-empire.net/society/society.html
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