How They Did It - Growing Up Roman
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Published 2019-08-30
In this How They Did It documentary episode we bring history to life by exploring the family setting before covering the major milestones of early life. The major sections include:
Family Setting: The structure of a Roman family centered around the paterfamilias
Childbirth: How Roman mothers delivered their children
Infancy: Naming a baby an raising it properly
Childhood: Early tutelage by a nurse and pedagogues
Teenager: Going to school and attaining freedoms
Adulthood: Marriage and starting a family
Video Credits
Research: Chris Das Neves (@Celebreth on Twitter)
Script: Chris Das Neves
Art: Beverly Johnson
Editing: Invicta
Bibliography and suggested reading
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, specifically the chapter “Women in the Roman World,” eds. Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson
Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome, by Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence
Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian, by Susan Treggiari
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, by Thomas Wiedemann
Education in Ancient Rome: from the elder Cato to the younger Pliny, by Stanley Bonner
Restless Youth in Ancient Rome, by Emiel Eyben, trans. Dr. Patrick Daly
The Roman Family, by Suzanne Dixon
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All Comments (21)
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Check out our other "Growing Up" episodes! "Growing Up Carthaginian" - https://youtu.be/T8tZ2G51ST8 "Growing Up Aztec" - https://youtu.be/wsNdYD8DODo "Growing Up Viking" - https://youtu.be/TdfdVDvA3tY
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Hi, welcome to my home. This is my wife, and these are my children, Julia, Julia: The Sequel, 2 Fast 2 Julia, and Julia: The Julianing
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"[The child] was placed on the floor" - Sounds a lot like The Sims tbh
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Having a slave whose job it is to beat you... only in Rome.
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"Kids were punished for being a bit too quiet" me being the silent kid through my whole childhood chuckles "Im in danger"
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Good to know that the Older generation talking shit about "kids these days" transcends through time and its not just said today
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“Come here, Julia.” Julias 1 through 13 come in “I have made a serious mistake.”
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Imagine you just tryna buy some bread at the market and suddenly you get whipped by a naked dude running down the streets
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Imagine carrying a baby for 9 months, and then having your husband be like "Nah, I don't want it"
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Ah Puberty: The Madness that Affects all Youths until their 20s
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It’s genuinely so adorable that people would be proud that their wives made their clothes
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Baby defect: exists Romans: p e r i s h
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It's terrifying how easily young teenagers were taken advantage of by older men. Neither the boys or girls were safe in that regard.
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14 to 20's were considered to be a period of madness... You mean.. like.. puberty and common teenage rebellion?
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“They were also infected by some sort of madness which they recovered in their early 20s” Uuuh
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Rome: You kill infants for sacrifice! Carthage: You leave them out on the streets to die if you don't like them Sparta: n o o b s
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"Riding broomsticks" was an activity that the great Harrius Potternum very much enjoyed as a young boy.
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"Here's an adorable letter about a little boy learning to talk written by his grandfather" Reads letter Aww "And here's a less adorable story about how Nero had his stepson murdered for playing general and emperor" Nero what the hell man?!
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I love that the show Rome was able to provide so many pictures for this.
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It always blew my mind that the infant/toddler mortality rate was so high, but people would regularly abandon their children after one look at the kid...
