Women of Ancient Rome: To Survive under the Patriarchy

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The women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the `Mos maiorum`, the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the `Confarreatio`, which put a wife under the absolute power of her husband. She could not divorce him, but he could divorce her.

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