The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture

162 THE ROMAN EMPIRE had to tolerate their interference in a decision about marriage (a quarter of aristocratic men, who married ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 163 his lifetime? Was the hostility between the generations as intense as the stories of parricide have led ...

164 THE ROMAN EMPIRE apparently did not use, was for the aging father to retire and turn over his land to his son in return for ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 165 children of the family increasingly preserved the memory of both father’s and mother’s domus by taking ...

166 THE ROMAN EMPIRE (15b, ed. O. Hense) suggests that even wealthy families resorted to infant exposure to restrict the number ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 167 cementing relationships between unrelated Romans is considered in the next chapter. These features of R ...

168 THE ROMAN EMPIRE grades of kinship in order to identify the nearest kin for purposes of inheritance and guardianship. The La ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 169 The provision of a dowry for a kinswoman was another common form of support (Pliny, Ep. 2.4, FIRA III, ...

170 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Addendum The original edition of this book was published at a moment when the study of Roman families and h ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 171 been underscored by Vuolanto (2002), McGinn (2008) and Huebner and Ratzan (2009). For broader studies o ...

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The place of a Roman in society was a function of his position in the social hierarchy, membership of a family, and involvement ...

174 THE ROMAN EMPIRE in time of the benefactor’s need ( Ben. 6.43.3), and the language of debt and repayment regularly appeared ...

SOCIAL RELATIONS 175 and the right of tapping the water supply. The norms guiding the distribution of these goods and services w ...

176 THE ROMAN EMPIRE of the lower classes in the city of Rome. The salutatio and other Republican customs characteristic of patr ...

SOCIAL RELATIONS 177 a sealskin and jewellery ( CIL XIII 3162).^11 The advertisement of all these details on a public monument d ...

178 THE ROMAN EMPIRE The question of how to categorize these relationships is more than a quibble over words, insofar as it draw ...

SOCIAL RELATIONS 179 ranging from an estate and an apartment in the city to an offi cial salaried appointment, money, clothing a ...

180 THE ROMAN EMPIRE The custom of distributing large bequests to valued friends helps us to understand why forensic oratory con ...

SOCIAL RELATIONS 181 with the rich, because they were thought to have nothing to contribute to a reciprocal exchange relationshi ...