1. Birth:
Acceptance or rejection by father
Less of a concern by 1st c. BC

2. Education (Early Republic):
At home until c. 7, then at home (girls)
or with father (boys)
c. 15 toga virilis, friend of father
c. 17 military service, older mentor

3. 3rd-2nd c. BC Hellenisation of Roman
educational system
By end 1st c. BC Primary schools (ludi
literarii)

4. c. 12-15 Division of sexes vis-à-vis education
c. 14 Girls often married off at this age
Boys continuing education at secondary school
under grammaticus (teacher of grammar
and literature)
Young men subsequently learning rhetoric from
rhetor (master of rhetoric)
Early 1st c. BC movement aiming to establish
course in Latin rhetoric. Banned by censors
in 92 BC. Ban later lifted by Julius Caesar

5. Marriage: Arranged, contractual relationship.
Celebrated with sacrifices, ceremonies, party!

6. Women in Late Republic:
Involvement in politics (e.g. Porcia,
wife of Brutus; Hortensia in 42 BC)
Respect for talents (e.g. Cornelia, wife
of Pompey)
Dynastic marriages

7. Women in Late Republic:
Accusations of sexual misconduct
Lower class women: slaves, freedwomen,
poor freeborn women
Prostitution: fornices (archways)

8. Leges Juliae (18 BC):
To regulate morality and family life, incl:
Punishments for adultery
Forbidding certain types of sexual
activity
Concern to encourage production of
legitimate offspring by citizens

9. Death: Funerals of the poor and rich