Marriage in ancient Rome

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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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description: 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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