Ancient Roman FAQs
Crispinus Hardy
Writing
Family
Roman parents are definitively different from the parent you and I have today. For one thing the mothers are always at home teaching the children. The females never really went to a tutor. The father is very different because he takes care of the sons trades and arranges his marriage until he is around 25.
Names are also very different in roman times vs. modern times. The names of roman times sometimes had 2 or 3 first names unlike the one we have today. They have a praenomen which is like a prefix, a nomen which is their name, and a nomina that is like a suffix at the end of the name. These name also had a more profound meaning then our names today.
Men's Clothing
Women's clothing
Citations
"Writing and Language." World Eras. Ed. John T. Kirby. Vol. 3: Roman Republic and Empire, 264 B.C.E.- 476 C.E. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 170-172. World History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2015.
"Family." The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome. Don Nardo. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. 153-155. World History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2015.
"Names." The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome. Don Nardo. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. 181-182. World History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2015
Tortora, Phyllis. "Toga." Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Ed. Valerie Steele. Vol. 3. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. 329-331. World History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2015.
McManus, Barbara F. "Roman Clothing, Part I." Roman Clothing, Part I. VROMA, Aug. 2003. Web. 14 Sept. 2015.
"The Dress of Roman Women." Arts and Humanities Through the Eras. Ed. Edward I. Bleiberg, et al. Vol. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.C.E.-476 C.E. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 106-109. World History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2015.