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I am going to do my wiki page and the gender roles in Ancient Rome which will have to do with the daily chores of the men and woman, and even children of Ancient Rome. This will even go over the sexual roles such as the homosexuality and who was allowed to have random sexual relationships and who was not allowed. This will tie into the Roman discussion because its a corner stone of how things were done, and it will show how women were thought of and also shine light on the men. This also will include the roles of the family unit, which will lead into the social caste, and order.

Ok so im assuming that when he asked up to post the first sentence from article he wants it on here, so "The flood plains along the Nile constitute and important but as yet little, utilized series of laboratories for the comparitive studys of the origins and interaction of ancient civilizations.

Module 10 "Over the last twenty years, the study of women of the Greek and Roman world has experienced a boom, that if judged by the sheer output of relevant publications,dwarfs any other recent innovations and redirections in the fields of ancient history." Women in Ancient Rome were treated very much like the woman throughout most of time, men were the ones who would go out and take care of the crops and they were the ones who would go out and take care of the day to day business. But the women were to stay home and take care of the more domesticated things such as dinner and the children. Its said that the women were made by the gods to be fit for only a "seated" way of life, meaning that they were to weak to do much else.
 * =The Most Silent Women of Greece and Rome: Rural Labour and Women's Life in the Ancient World (I)=
 * Walter Scheidel
 * [|Greece & Rome], Second Series, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Oct., 1995), pp. 202-217
 * Published by: [|Cambridge University Press] on behalf of [|The Classical Association]

"Prejudice against women, avowed or covert, institututionalized or personal goes back to the very begining of western culture, to its foundations in Greece, Rome, and Israel." Women in Ancient Rome were treated very much like the woman throughout most of time, men were the ones who would go out and take care of the crops and they were the ones who would go out and take care of the day to day business. But the women were to stay home and take care of the more domesticated things such as dinner and the children. Its said that the women were made by the gods to be fit for only a "seated" way of life, meaning that they were to weak to do much else. Women were seen and said to be submissive women were recongizined for the feminism and their bodies but they were mostly just patronized,they were more or less looked at as something that had to be there and they had few things that made them useful. The women of Rome were not allowed to be in the military they were told what they could do, and they were not allowed to participate in the political aspect of Roman society. //SUNY series in classical studies// //History e-book project// ||
 * Title || Women in the ancient world: the Arethusa papers
 * Authors || [|John Peradotto], [|John Patrick Sullivan] ||
 * Editors || [|John Peradotto], [|John Patrick Sullivan] ||
 * Publisher || SUNY Press, 1984 ||
 * ISBN || 0873957725, 9780873957724 ||
 * Length || 377 pages ||

The family in ancient Rome "The nuclear family was small, but what the Romans meant by a familia could be much larger" In this article the role of the family is described, but what interested me the most was the role they showed of the children, and how if they were legitimate children then they were considered the fathers child and accepted by the fathers family and the would be given his family name, but if the child was considered a non legitimate, they were then the mothers child, and not accepted by the fathers family or the father for the most part, they were accepted by the mothers family if she had one, and also they were given the mothers name. I felt that this showed a good role of the children in Ancient Rome.


 * The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives** By Beryl Rawson
 * Paperback:** 279 pages
 * **Publisher:** Cornell University Press (July 1987)
 * **Language:** English
 * **ISBN-10:** 0801494605
 * **ISBN-13:** 978-0801494604

"The limitation on womans finacial freedom seems at variance with other legal social developments of which we know" This is one of the things that was very hard for the role of the woman in Ancient Rome they really did not have anything that they would be able to call their own they had to take basically what was given to them, they did not have any property, everything they had was owned by their husbands. Woman of Ancient Rome did not have any say in what was bought or sold they were more or less there just to take care of the house and make sure their husbands and children were fed. Woman of Ancient Rome were just another piece of property owned by their husbands.


 * The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives** By Beryl Rawson
 * Paperback:** 279 pages
 * **Publisher:** Cornell University Press (July 1987)
 * **Language:** English
 * **ISBN-10:** 0801494605
 * **ISBN-13:** 978-0801494604