HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Women stood as the heads of the household, or domus, which was the one place where she could exercise a lot of power.
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A woman’s role in the domus depended on many different things, like age and wealth, but usually she was under the control of the pater familias.
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A woman’s role in the domus only changed when the pater familias went to war, leaving her in charge of the family’s wealth.
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Women were only allowed to engage in household chores and responsibilities once they were married to another family’s pater familias.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement best describes the role of the pater / paterfamilia in the Roman family? He had complete authority over his wife and children. What is an established religion?
Detailed explanation-2: -Roman women had a very limited role in public life. They could not attend, speak in, or vote at political assemblies and they could not hold any position of political responsibility.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result, the materfamilias (mother of the family) was usually much younger than her husband.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Roman Empire elite patrona, middle-class freedwomen and working-class women were honored by art images reflecting a range of statues with the same social ambition as Roman men. These women commissioned architecture, monuments and public and private portraits.