World History › Section F · Life in the Roman Empire › Topic F.1
Daily life in a Roman family
For a Roman, the family was a business, a religious community and a ladder to status all at once. This topic looks inside the household: who held power, how marriage and childhood worked, and what Roman houses reveal about daily life.
In this topic
- The household as Rome's basic unit
- The paterfamilias and his power
- Marriage, dowry and divorce
- Women's work and authority
- Childhood and education
- Houses: the domus, the insula and the villa
- Worked example: reading a Pompeian house as evidence
- Patrons, clients and the state as family
- Ancestors and the way of the elders
- Worked example: was the Roman father a tyrant?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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