Marriage in ancient Rome
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marriage-in-ancient-rome-161-1831860
title:
Marriage in ancient Rome
text:
Marriage in ancient Rome (conubium) was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances. The institution of Roman marriage was a practice of marital monogamy: Roman citizens could have only one spouse at a time in marriage but were allowed to divorce and remarry. This form of prescriptively monogamous marriage that co-existed with male resource polygyny in Greco-Roman civilization may have arisen from the relative egalitarianism of demo
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encyclopedia
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Social institution in the classical Roman civilization
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome
date created:
2005-11-22T09:20:32Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T03:29:02Z
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