Roman Marriage Customs Flashcards
Betrothal
Sponsalia - woman promissed to man by pater familias or tutor
Sponsus
Betrothed man
Sponsa
Betrothed woman
Anulus
Wedding band - ring finger left hand b/c vein to the heart
Breaking of the betrothal
Done yhrough the nuntius- repuditum renuntiare
Price of repudium renuntiare
Infamia- man could not get stuff back
Female to marry
Nubere- to veil oneself / marry
Male to mary
In matrimonium ducere- to lead into marriage
Marriage hym
Hymenaeus
Matron’s dress
Stola matronalis Worn outside the house
Matronalia
1st of march- mother + woves day
Manus
Power of husband over wife - present in weddings like confarriatio
Type of wedding with manus
Cum conventione (uxoris) in manum viri
Type of wedding without manus
Sine conventione (uxoris) in manum (viri)
When was confarriatio nescissarry
For parents of flamines minores and reges scacrorum — tiberius therefor removed manua
Pleb marriage
Usus- not official no manus not iustae nuntiae woman could have property is seperatec for trinictium
Mock sale marriage
Coemptio- had 5 witnesses and required a dos
How was tunica recta woven
On an upright loom
Libripens
Sale holder in a coemptio
Bride’s hair
Divided in 6 by hasta carlibaris and tied with vettae
Wreaths in weddings
Bride gathered and made one, groom wore one
Witnessees fir confarratio
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Question in confarattio aftr dextrarum iunctio
An sibi mater/pater familias esse vellent
Utinsel basket in confarriatio
Cumera- carried by a cammillus who is patrimus et matrimus
Offerring in confarratio
Bloodless- spelt cake yo juppiter by pontifex maximus and flamen dialis
Prayer after confarratio offerring
By flamen dialis to juno, Tellus, Picumnus and Pilumnus,
What happens after confarratio ceramony part
Bride + groom show up in atrium of the bride’s paterfamilias and a feast is had in which the groom take sthe bride by froce from the mom (as a joke)
After the feast in confarriatio
Deductio- any one can join shouting feliciter goes from bride’s pater familias’ hoise to husband’s house
When do guests arrive in confarriatio
Before sunrise
Who are by the bride at conffaratio
Two patrimi et matrimi on each side and one in front wearing the taeda (torch) and spina alba (white thorn)
What is behind the wife in confarriatio
The distaff and the spindle emblems of domestic life
What were sund during deductio
The versus fescenni — named for an original senator, sung for talassius a sabine god
What are the three coins for
Lares comptiales
The dowry
The lares of the groom’s household
Doorposts in confarriatio
Wound by the bride with wool annointed with oil and fat
Why did husband carry wife over the threashold of his house in confarriatio
To avoid tripping he then says ubi tu gaua ego gaius
What does husband give to his wife after tge wedding in private
Water and fire in the atrium
What happened yo the torch’s fire adter ceremony
Held by bride in deductio then thrown to the crowd
After the deductio what does pronuba do?
Picks up wife and puts on lectus genealis in the atrium
What is the feast called
Cena nuptialis
What ended the feast
Mustaceaum - wedding cake
Repotia
Second day after marriage wife gives first offering as a matron
Required for nuptiae iustae
Pater familias must agree
Both parties must be puberes (14 and 12 at least)
No polygamy
No adfines or cognates of the fourth degree
If marriage is leagle what are kids
Legitimate, cives optimo iure
What days are bad for marriage
Kalends nones and ides and tbe next day
All of may and the first half if june
Febuary 13-24
Aug 24
Oct. 5
Nov. 8
