women in the home (rome)

Question 1

what was the matrona expected to do

Answer 1

produce children

Question 2

why were they supposed to produuce children

Answer 2

to ensure the continuatuon of the house hold and so that the children might advance t status and the wealth of the household

Question 3

most roman mothers would do what to their babies

Answer 3

breastfeed

Question 4

would fathers make time with their wifes when breast feeding

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

where would roman women give birth

Answer 5

in the home

Question 6

are the men allowed to be in the room while the women ig giving birth

Answer 6

no

Question 7

what can you do if you are a wealthy matrona

Question 8

patronagve

Answer 8

a semi-formal association between a richer more influential roman partron and a poorer, less influential client,whereby the patron would provide social contacts, advice and perhaps financial support, and in return the client would support, and in return, the client would support the patron in their business or political endeavours

Question 9

what was one of the responsibility of the matrona

Answer 9

• organise dinner parties for her husband

Question 10

what could she do at these dinner parties

Answer 10

attend party and she could help to boost the reputation of the family by representing herself worl.these were important to the roman system of patronage.

Question 11

what would the husband do when he was away

Answer 11

consul and buissness

Question 12

vilica

Answer 12

a female slave resposnible for managing a household

Question 13

lararium

Answer 13

shrine for the household gods

Question 14

conturberium

Answer 14

parterships for couples who were enslaved as marriage not permitted d

Question 15

what is matrona

Answer 15

married roman woman

Question 16

what would boys do to earn money

Answer 16

work

Question 17

what would boys from wealthy familes do

Answer 17

earn the family status by excelling in areas such as the law,
politics or the military.

Question 18

why would girls be useful

Answer 18

could be given in marriage to allies
or business partners, and so solidify relationships between
families.

Question 19

what did grave markers show

Answer 19

many women died in their teens and
early twenties, either in childbirth or shortly after as a result of
infections.

Question 20

what was a matrona also expected to do

Answer 20

take an active role in raising her
children, and were well respected for doing so.

Question 21

what would women in poor familes in the house

Answer 21

cooking and cleaning, spinning and weaving wool and looking after any children. She might also work a job
to bring money into the household.

Question 22

what does a wealthy roman women do

Answer 22

oversees the running of house and would get the vilica to do them for her
hostingdinnner parties because her husband is a patron and it supposed to talk about philosphyand literature
if she has children she would be helping to raise them
she mosyly hangs out with her friends and lives a life of leisure because she deliagates

Question 23

what does a poor roman women do

Answer 23

• running the house hold herself
• making clothes her self
• raising her children herself
• can’t read and perhaps do maths
• doesn’t host dinner parties because her husband is proberly a client
• can’t afford in slaved people

Question 24

what does a wealthy athenian women do

Answer 24

• she weaves which is modest
• stays on the house in the gynkieon is on the first floor because she can’t leave because the mans room is on the ground floor
• not allowed to go to the andron for symposia but she has to organise it
• can’t leave without a male escort

Question 25

what is poorer athenian women do

Answer 25

• can’t afford enslaved people
• has to work
• had more freedom
• still has to live in the gynakeion but isn’tstuck in there
• has to run the house herself