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Claire Key What was marriage and family life like In the Roman Empire? Women were often seen as the weaker sex and thus often seen as having only two purposes in life, these are child bearing; focusing on male heirs and keeping the house suitable for their husbands to come home to. But what was life really like for all women in Roman Society. The Romans did not name their daughters at all. Their daughter was automatically given the feminine form of her father's name. In view of the later development of the patronymic into surnames it appears that Roman girls had no individual names at all. This was just the reflection of history of Roman legislation affecting women, especially guardianship, marriage and inheritance. The attitude towards the female sex created the underlying principles of Roman legal theory that all women were to be under the custody of males. Women were expected to...

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