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Materfamilias (1898) is a
novel by
Australian writer Ada Cambridge. The
novel is a first-person
narrative that
follows the life of a woman, Mary Braye...
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known as
capitis diminutio minima,
conferred on the wife the
title of
materfamilias. The wife in a **** manu
marriage held no
proprietary capacity, meaning...
- BC, the rape of a
freeborn male (ingenuus) is
equated with that of a
materfamilias as a
capital crime. The Lex
Julia de vi publica,
recorded in the early...
- actress-turned-courtesan, to
occupy the seat of
honour reserved for the
family materfamilias. In the
context of
Augustan poetry,
Richard Frank sees
Cytheris as an...
- a "child" or minor;
muliebria are the
garments that
characterize a
materfamilias; communia,
those that are "common", that is, worn by
either ****; and...
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contributed to the
perception of the household's respectability. The
materfamilias in
particular was
judged by her
female slaves' ****ual behavior, which...
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domestic Lares, and one to her husband. If the
marriage made her a
materfamilias, she took
joint responsibility with her
husband for
aspects of household...
- 6th and
early 5th
century BCE was a
hairstyle worn
primarily by the
materfamilias, the
mother of the family. It
remained in
constant use even when fashion...
- wife
became a part of her husband's
family and
gained the
title of
materfamilias, or "mother of a household". A wife held the same
property rights as...
- debate. The
historian Kate
Cooper sees Mary as a courageous,
intelligent materfamilias.
Clark and
Hatch write that
Proba stresses Mary's
maternity by omitting...
