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Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

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How did the young, wealthy women of Ancient Rome spend their days? Meet Domitia and her sister Domitia and her sister Domitia and her sister Domitia. Ray Laurence sketches the domestic life of leisure that these young girls lived, despite little recorded information on women from this otherwise well-documented era.

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What was significant about the names of males in Ancient Rome, and why were the names of females sometimes confusing?

a

Males had rhyming names, but females had names that were made of words that were meant to mimic the names of their biological fathers

b

Males often had up to six names that told a story of their family heritage, but females were named after the attributes of their biological mothers (which often confused the characteristics specific to more than one lineage)

c

They could determine ancestry with the names of the males, but they often confused the females because the had only a single name which was the same as their female siblings

d

Names were trivial and served no purpose in Ancient Rome

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