The Age of Marriage in Ancient RomeThis work provides a review of the research done and various views held since the late-19th century on the age of marriage in ancient Roman society. It offers an hypothesis that explains the apparent discrepancy between the literary and epigraphic evidence. |
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The Evidence and Other Preliminary Considerations 13 2 2 5 | 13 |
Early Rome up to the End of the Second Century BC | 29 |
The Period of the Late Republic and the Empire | 57 |
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AAFMs Africanus age of marriage Age of Roman Agrippina Agrippina the Elder ancient Antonia Antonia Minor assumed Augustus Aurelius average age birth born bride Caecilia Attica Caesar Cato Christian Cicero classical Claudius commemorators Constantius Constantius II Cornelius daughter death demographic Discussion and sources divorce dowry Drusus early AAFMs early marriages eighteen epigraphical evidence epitaphs father female AAFMs fifteen Flavius fourteen Friedländer funerary Germanicus Gracchus Greek Hist Hopkins husband inscriptions Italy Iulia Iulius Julia large numbers late teens later Licinia Eudoxia Marc married military service Münzer Nero nineteen Octavian offspring parents patria potestas Patriarchy pattern Pederasty Plut population Pulcheria quaestor Roman Girls Roman males Roman society Rome Saller and Shaw Scipio Aemilianus second century BC Seeck senatorial seventeen sixteen social Stilicho Suet Theodosius Tiberius toga virilis Tullius twelve twenty University Press upper classes Verus virilis wife women young younger