The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity,9780521196109

The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780521196109
ISBN10: 0521196108
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-24
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire (from ca. 200 BC to AD 200), Karen Hersch shows how the Roman wedding expressed the ideals and norms of an ancient people. Her book is an invaluable tool for Roman social historians interested in how ideas of gender, law, religion, and tradition are interwoven into the wedding ceremony of every culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The laws of humans and gods
At the house of the bride
To the groom's house
Gods of the Roman wedding
Conclusion
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