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| Para. | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| 1 | free and freely dissolvable | marriage,
definition |
Marriage,
Roman |
marriage,
expectations of marriage, definition of |
ideal
marriage lifetime commitment |
marriage,
forms of marriage, expectations |
| 2 | no civil ceremony first marriage of elite couples, revelry Catullus' poems ribald jokes nut scattering | marriage,
definition |
Civil
ceremony, Marriage, Roman, civil ceremony, Catullus, Wedding celebration, Upper class weddings |
marriage
agreement first marriage ceremonies Catullus' poems |
wedding
ceremonies wedding celebrations |
marriage
agreement ceremonies Catullus, poem describing marriage |
| 3 | girl, early teens young boy Catullus' poem girl unloved by parents until married | first
marriage celebration |
Brides, Women, status of , Married women, status of, Catullus | bride, age of
Catullus |
status
conferred through marriage parental approval |
age at time
of marriage status of married women |
| 4 | girl less hateful to parents Catullus' poem | bride,
respect earned as |
Catullus, on
status of women |
Catullus |
status
conferred through marriage |
Catullus,
poem describing marriage status of married women |
| 5 | girl gaining
affection of parents eulogy, Murdia, arranged marriage |
bride, age of |
Girls,
relationship to parents, Parents, attitude toward
daughters, Arranged marriages, Marriage, Roman arranged |
Murdia, a Roman woman benefits of marriage for girls | benefits of
marriage euology citing benefits of marriage |
Murdia status
of married women |
| 6 | network of
family members social status dowry |
bride,
respect earned as |
Benefits of
marriage, Marriage, Roman, benefits, Brides, benefits of
marriage, Grooms, benefits of marriage, Dowry, Upper
class political campaigns, Political campaigns, Pliny the
Younger, _Letters_, Matrona, |
benefits of
marriage for men benefits of marriage for women dowry
Treggiari Pliny the Younger |
extended
family dowry family support for political office |
benefits of
marriage extended family formed by marriage social status
property of married women political benefits to husband |
| 7 | "Matrona"
epitaphs Murdia |
social
status, through marriage |
Married
women, status of , Mothers, status of, Married women,
responsibilities, Mothers, responsibilities, Married
women, role in public worship, Mothers, role in public
worship, Homemakers, Married women, homemakers |
married
women, status of married women, responsbilities of
mothers, status of mothers, responsibilites of Matrona |
status
conferred through marriage responsibilities of wife
epitaphs in praise of married women |
status of
married women responsibility for household role in
religion Murdia |
| 8 | Murdia
(inferred) |
dowry |
epitaphs in
praise of married women |
? (same as
for 7) |
||
| 9 | Cornelia
Arria |
social
status, husband |
Women, famous
role models, Cornelia (mother of Tiberius Gracchus), role
model, Arria (wife of Caecina Paetus), role model,
Married women, loyalty to husbands, Plutarch, _Life of
Tiberius Gracchus_ Pliny the Younger, _Letters_ |
Cornelia
(mother of Grachhi) Arria (wife of Caecina Paetus) women,
role models Pliny the Younger Plutarch |
duties of
wife |
Cornelia
Grachhi (?) Arria, wife of Caecina Paetus ideal model of
wife |
| 10 | children,
increase of status by Athenodora |
social
status, wife |
Mothers,
status of |
mothers,
status of |
child bearing
and rearing epitaph listing children |
children,
importance of bearing Athenodora |
| 11 | Athenodora,
epitaph |
domestic
skills wife, goals of family size |
Mothers,
status of |
epitaph in
praise of child bearing and rearing |
? (as for 10)
|
|
| 12 | Augustan age children and release from guardianship prioirytto consul with more children | childbirth,
status of |
Mothers, as
businesswomen, Businesswomen, Slave women, freedom, Slave
women, as mothers, Dio Cassius, _Roman History_ |
motherhood,
incentives for slave women, incentives for motherhood Dio
Cassius |
child bearing
incentives guardianship, ended after child bearing |
Augustan age
children, importance of bearing incentives to bear
children slave wives |
| 13 | companionship,
common interests epitaph |
children,
importance of |
Companionship
in marriage, Marriage, Roman, social aspects, Married
women, mourned in death, Husbands, mourning death of
wives |
benefits of
marriage |
benefits of
marriage epitaph for wife |
companionship
love |
| 14 | epitaph boy
and girl {going back to age question of paragraph 3} |
family size |
Husbands,
mourning death of wives |
benefits of
marriage epitaph for husband |
love |
|
| 15 | upper
classes, political and financial arrangements and easy
divorce companionship Pliny the Younger Calpurnia, wife
of Pliny the Younger |
commitment |
Upper class,
marriages, Romantic love, Pliny the Younger, _Letters_,
Sexual satisfaction in marriage, Marriage, Roman, sexual
satisfaction in, Pliny the Younger, _Letters_, |
divorce
romantic love Pliny the Younger Calpurnia (wife of Pliny
the Younger) sexual satisfaction in marriage infidelity
in marriage |
benefits of
marriage letter from husband to wife |
love in upper
class marriages Pliny the Younger Calpurnia, wife of
Pliny the Younger |
| 16 | production of
children, primary function children's survival Cornelia
ideal marriage of one partner for life |
commitment |
Children,
mortality, Cornelia, children of, Epitaphs, Marriage,
Roman, monogamous |
children,
mortality of Cornelia |
children,
survival of ideal marriage longevity of marriage |
children,
survival of Cornelia length of marriages |
| 17 | epitaph Pythion son of Hicesius Epicydilla daughter of Epicydes he at eighteen and she at fifteen {again, back to paragraph 3} fifty years | commitment | Epitaphs, Pythion (son of Hicesius), epitaph, | Pythion (son of Hicesius), epitath Epicydilla (wife of Pythion), epitath | longevity of marriage epitaph citing longevity of marriage | length of marriages |
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