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Article: Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
- Author:
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Susan Treggiari's long-awaited book on Roman marriage is a major contribution to scholarship that confirms the author's standing as a leading contemporary historian of Roman society. Its subject, the ideology and practical conventions of marriage in the central epoch of Rome's history - what Treggiari calls "the Roman experience of marriage" - is of fundamental importance for understanding the nature of Roman society at large. Treggiari's coverage is accordingly comprehensive, taking in the ways marriage in Rome was brought into being how society conceived of ideal conjugal behavior and success in marriage, the lived reality of married life (to the extent that it can be ...