This was another excellent read and made me happily remember my year of Roman Law at uni. :) Among Augustan policies I would have perhaps added a mention to the ius trium liberorum, which granted women power over their own assets after the birth of the third child, certainly a good reward for complying with the fertility aims desired by the regime after the demographic depletion of the Civil Wars.
Also, I would like to add the most moving example (for me) of the marital tombstone inscription, which is the Turia inscription. This is a very long funerary encomium by a Augustan widower to his deceased wife Turia where he tells, among other anecdotes of their life in common, the story of how she fought to get him pardoned by Augustus after the Civil Wars, and how the childless couple stayed together in the face of Augustan natalist penalties even though Turia offered to divorce her husband so that he could sire a child with a younger wife. There is a wonderful study of this inscription by Josiah Osgood published by the Oxford University Press.
Thank you for your very kind words. They mean the world to me!
I could write several articles on Augustan morality laws alone, and who is to say I won't!? He did like that sort of thing, the old bugger.
I am saving up lots of amazing funerary inscriptions for a special occasion post, so I might include 'In Praise of Turia" in there as well. The 'Turia' (or Curia) identification is no longer accepted, by the way. The two people remain unknown.
Thanks for letting me know! I always look forward to your posts, they are very well researched and serve as very good quality summaries for specific topics.
This was another excellent read and made me happily remember my year of Roman Law at uni. :) Among Augustan policies I would have perhaps added a mention to the ius trium liberorum, which granted women power over their own assets after the birth of the third child, certainly a good reward for complying with the fertility aims desired by the regime after the demographic depletion of the Civil Wars.
Also, I would like to add the most moving example (for me) of the marital tombstone inscription, which is the Turia inscription. This is a very long funerary encomium by a Augustan widower to his deceased wife Turia where he tells, among other anecdotes of their life in common, the story of how she fought to get him pardoned by Augustus after the Civil Wars, and how the childless couple stayed together in the face of Augustan natalist penalties even though Turia offered to divorce her husband so that he could sire a child with a younger wife. There is a wonderful study of this inscription by Josiah Osgood published by the Oxford University Press.
Thank you for your very kind words. They mean the world to me!
I could write several articles on Augustan morality laws alone, and who is to say I won't!? He did like that sort of thing, the old bugger.
I am saving up lots of amazing funerary inscriptions for a special occasion post, so I might include 'In Praise of Turia" in there as well. The 'Turia' (or Curia) identification is no longer accepted, by the way. The two people remain unknown.
Thanks for letting me know! I always look forward to your posts, they are very well researched and serve as very good quality summaries for specific topics.