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FEMININE SOCIAL STATUS IN ANCIENT ROME
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The Roman Ancient culture makes no exception from the long line of humanity's empires, which have not paid attention to femininity in its beauty and goodness, instruction and education. The Roman woman represented, both during the Empire and in the Republic, a controversial subject and treated most often differently. While common women only received elementary skills (writing and reading), upper and middle-class women had the right to a selected education, granted by the family's position. Ever since birth, the status of a woman was to ensure the unity of the family by perpetuating the name and assuring a social and financial position to her descendants, a status at least equal to that of her family. The role of matrons in Roman Ancient society is quite clearly established by laws and norms, i.e. daughter, wife and mother, with high behavioural. Everything the woman does inside the household configures her on the outside of her household, becoming the image of her husband and family. The Roman Ancient women are the first to earn social rights (throughout the male intermediary, i.e. Tutela mulierum perpetua) and enjoy a relative "freedom" in the pre-Christian world. Although the Roman Ancient woman is dependent on her husband and father, she enjoys consideration and freedom as only contemporary society offers today's women an equal status, at least formally, relative to the man.
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