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Latin 7 |Roman Life V: "Patria Potestas"

Following Chapter 8 of Ecce Romani | | |

|Nomen________________________ |Datum_________________________ |

|   "A Roman father enjoyed absolute legal control over the lives of his children. He had the legal right to expose a newborn child; |

|he arranged marriages for his children and could force them to divorce spouses they loved; he could disown a child, sell a child into|

|slavery, or even kill a child whose behavior displeased him. How strictly or severely an individual father wielded this power |

|depended very much on his personality and temperament as well as on the responses of other family members and the community. For |

|example, arranged marriages were common in Roman society, but the execution of an adult son by his father was rare." |

|   "Although most fathers were concerned about the well-being of their offspring, they greeted the birth of an infant boy with more |

|joy than the birth of an infant girl. Daughters often married at a very tender age to men chosen by their fathers; it was not |

|uncommon for girls to be engaged at twelve and married at thirteen, and few were asked their opinions about prospective bridegrooms. |

|Yet it would be wrong to conclude that Roman fathers did not love their daughters. Cicero was greatly distressed at the death of his |

|daughter Tullia, from complications arising from childbirth, when she was about 30 years old." |

|   "Mothers did not have the legal control over their children that fathers did. When her husband died, a widow might find herself at|

|the mercy of her children unless she had inherited enough money to remain independent." |

|-- From As the Romans Did by Jo-Ann Shelton |

|Read "PATRIA POTESTAS" (Father's Power) |

|on pp. 59-61 of Ecce Romani and |

|answer the following questions. |

|_________________________ is the Latin term for a Roman father as supreme head. |

|The Roman "familia" consisted of: |

|_______________________________________________ |

|_______________________________________________ |

|_______________________________________________ |

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|The Latin word for "Master" is __________________________. |

|Marriage with '_____________________' was a marriage that transferred "potestas" from a woman's father to her husband. |

|____________________ was the first Roman king to give a father absolute power over a son. |

|For or through their children Roman parents were expected to provide: |

|____________________________________________________ |

|____________________________________________________ |

|____________________________________________________ |

|Rome's first consul, Brutus, ordered the _____________________ of his own sons for plotting treason. |

|Give the Latin phrase and then translate Cicero's description of parental love: |

|________________________________________________________ |

|________________________________________________________ |

|When did a father's "patria potestas" usually cease? |

|________________________________________________________ |

|________________________________________________________ |

|Could an adult son ever assume "patria potestas" while his father lived? |

|________________________________________________________ |

|________________________________________________________ |

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