chapter 5 Flashcards
Class
reflects your wealth
status
legal categories
ingenuus, igenua
freeborn
libertus, liberta
freed slaves
peregrini
non-citizens
praenomen
1st name, a personal name (ex. Gaius)
nomen
2nd name, family name; most important (ex. Julius)
-shows family ties and citizenship
-family name handed down through generations
cognomen
3rd name, nickname (ex. Caesar)
agnomen
sometimes 4th name (ex. Afericanus)
women’s names
come from nomen of father (ex. Julius = Julia)
-all daughters have the same name
-prima, secunda, tertia
-early empire: women start to have a second name (cognomen)
roman citizens: public rights and duties
-vote
-hold office
-serve in roman legions
-different legal treatment
-only citizens wear togas
-tria nomina (roman naming conventions)
conubium
legitimate marriage with citizen offspring
honestiores
member of senatorial, equestrian, or decurial, had greater access to the system of justice and lighter punishment then humiliores
humiliores
not part of the senatorial, equestrian, or decurial, less access to the justice system, and had harsher punishment then honestiores
patritians
-hold offices and priesthoods
-right to display wax busts in atrium
-used at funerals
