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Women’s Life in Ancient Rome This PowerPoint presentation accompanies Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3 Women’s Life in Ancient Rome 200 BCE – 250 CE 1
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Women’s Life in Ancient Rome
This PowerPoint presentation accompanies
Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3Women’s Life in Ancient Rome
200 BCE – 250 CE
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Hi! I am Mundo!
We are looking at the city of Rome.
Is anything missing?
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Shouldn’t we add some people?
Some soldiers?
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How about more people?
Some senators?
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How about gladiators
and charioteers?
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Wait!
What about
women?
That’s better!
You cannot leave out half of the population
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What did women in Rome do?
Young girls from elite families went
to school and learned to read
and write and to do math.
Lege (Read):
XenophonDemosthenes
Some entered into the service of the goddess
Vesta and remained there for 30 years.
They played
with dolls.
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When elite girls grew up they ran their household and
supervised their slaves.
Do you like the kitchen?
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They participated in religious rites and
ceremonies.
They wrote poetry and letters.
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And if the elite
woman was the
wife or mother
of the emperor,
she could give
political advice!
Hello. I am Julia
Domna. Ancient
writers say I helped
Septimius Severus
rule the empire.
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What about the many
women who did not
belong to the elite?
They did not go to school when they
were young. Instead, they
started working, just like their
parents.
Many children started working when they were
as young as five.
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Some women
owned their
own shops.
Non-elite women could also take part
in religious rites and festivals.
This is the goddess
Minerva … but you already
knew that!
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And slave
women
always had to
work for their
masters.
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Did slaves participate in religious rites and festivals?
Yes, they were allowed to participate
in some of them.
And they got a break from work during
certain holidays!
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Women in Rome got
married and had kids.
If they were rich they lived in a
big house.
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The poor were not so lucky …
When they died they were sometimes
commemorated.
A baking oven,
huh? That is
unusual …Some tombs
were unusual!
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The End
This PowerPoint presentation accompanies
World History for Us AllCloseup Teaching Unit 4.5.3
Women’s Life in Ancient Rome100 BCE – 450 CE
