Women in Ancient Rome
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For women in ancient Rome, the family consisted of the conjugal pair, holdings of land and properties, children, married sons and the sons children, daughters-in-law, slaves and clients (Wives). It was an assemblage of what belonged to the ascendant male. All legal rights and power belonged to the man. He had total control over the family and had power of life and death over his children; could sell his child into slavery for whatever reason whenever he wished; a daughter remained under his control unless he consented to give her in marriage; he held absolute power over his slaves and all female relatives under his guardianship; and held all rights over his wife - to punish, banish, denounce, divorce and execute her if he wished. Women had no rights in ancient Rome (Wives). However, she had considerably more freedom than her Greek counterpart. Unlike her Greek sister, she was allowed to eat with the men, and was not required
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