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Reading assignment: Jeffers 237-257; Course Reader 34-40 (deSilva 178-183; Torjesen 55-59;
Leftkowitz 96, 102).
I.
Roman Household a producing and consuming unit (deSilva 179) home based
business. Called a patrimony by Veyne a household (oikos) under the management of
the father (141).
A.
B.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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exogamous marriages (outside ones clan) for strategic alliances (deSilva 174-177).
Marriages were normally arranged by parents.
1.
Marriage age 12-18 for Roman girls, minimum age for boys 14, but many
men married as late as 30.
2.
3.
4.
c)
d)
e)
f)
5.
2.
3.
4.
Although a man was master of his home (paterfamilias), wife had same
degree of authority in the home (materfamilias) (deSilva 182).
5.
Torjesen emphasizes women who were heads of households and the same
authority they wielded as male heads of households including that all in
the household shared the religion of the materfamilias, e.g. Lydia in Acts 10
& 16 (54-55).
6.
D.
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Education
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References
Aristotle, Pol. 1.12-13.
Clement of Rome, I Clement 21:6-8.
deSilva, David. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2000, 33-34,
174-183.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities 2.25.5. Loeb Classical Library.
Jeffers, James. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity
Press, 1999, 237-257.
Lefkowitz, Mary R. and Maureen Fant. Womens Life in Greece & Rome. Baltimore, MD: John
Hopkins University Press, 1992, 96, 102.
Long, George. Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea, in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Edited by
William Smith. London: John Murray, 1875: 691-692.
Philo, On the Special Laws 2.29.
Plutarch, Advice on Marriage 16, 31, 32.
Smith, William, Domus, in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Edited by William Smith.
London: John Murray, 1875: 426-432.
Torjesen, Karen. When Women Were Priests. New York: Harper-San Francisco, 1995, 55-59.
Veyne, Paul, ed. From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. A History of Private
Life, vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987, 33-41, 139159.
Xenophon, Oeconomicus 3.10-15; 9.14-15.