[QUOTE=DaphneBlack]
What did a Roman matron call if she was annoyed at her daughters?
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If she had several daughters? Why, that’s easy: Prima, Secunda, Tertia… et cetera. No need to give them ‘real’ names. Numbers worked just as well.
[QUOTE=Helen’s Eidolon]
Women’s names didn’t change upon marriage - thank heavens. I can’t imagine what the nomenclature would look like after all those divorces.
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And you are absolutely right. I get so enamoured with the misogynistic culture of the Romans (to the point of not differentiating women except for their relations to men), that I conflate it with other androcentric practices in my mind.
Yeah, I was guessing something like “Juliae!”
[QUOTE=Diomedes]
If she had several daughters? Why, that’s easy: Prima, Secunda, Tertia… et cetera. No need to give them ‘real’ names. Numbers worked just as well.
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On HBO’s Rome Lucius Vorenus had two daughters, naturally both named Vorena. He simply called his older daughter, Vorena the Elder, “Eldest”.