young women Flashcards
who was an Athenian girl under the control of
Her Kyrios
what happened in an Athenian Wedding ceremony
First day: bride shared a feast with all female friends and relatives, made sacrifices to Artemis (goddess of childhood and virginity)
Second day: ritual bath for the bride to enhance fertility, dressed in fine clothing and jewellery and veiled. Wedding procession and then the torch light procession where the bride would be dragged away from her mother and put in a cart to take to the grooms house.
second day night: couple would consummate the marriage as their friends banged on the door to ward off evil spirits.
third day morning: people waited outside, bride would be given presents for her new life.
.Fruit and flowers were thrown for good fertility.
what was a Syssition
communal mess hall where Spartan warriors dined
what would a Spartan bride do on her wedding night
.cut hair short and wear men’s clothing
.she would lie on the floor of her bedroom
.her husband would eat dinner in the Syssition and go to bed in barracks
.he’d sneak out an fuck then return to sleep with his fellow soldiers
what age would Spartan men retire
thirty
what was a bulla
lucky charm to ward of evil spirits
what did Cum Manu marriage entail
Wife legally transferring to her husbands family she could inherit from her husband but not her father anymore
what did a Sine Manu entail and why was it more popular in rich families
wife is under the control of her father/paterfamilias. It was preferred this as they could inherit from their fathers and keep the money within the family.
what did a coemption ceremony entail
bride was symbolically sold to her husband
.bride and groom made offerings to Jupiter
what was a Confarreatio
Patrician wedding in a Cum Manu marriage
what was an Usus
no formal wedding ceremony in a Sine Manu marriage
what was the Lares
Roman families household gods
