Latin 7 - Quia
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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|_______________________________________________ |
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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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