Materfamilias (1898) is a novel by Australian writer Ada Cambridge. The novel is a first-person narrative that follows the life of a woman, Mary Braye...

BC, the rape of a freeborn male (ingenuus) is equated with that of a materfamilias as a capital crime. The Lex Julia de vi publica, recorded in the early...

actress-turned-courtesan, to occupy the seat of honour reserved for the family materfamilias. In the context of Augustan poetry, Richard Frank sees Cytheris as an...

contributed to the perception of the household's respectability. The materfamilias in particular was judged by her female slaves' sexual behavior, which...

known as capitis diminutio minima, conferred on the wife the title of materfamilias. The wife in a cum manu marriage held no proprietary capacity, meaning...

a "child" or minor; muliebria are the garments that characterize a materfamilias; communia, those that are "common", that is, worn by either sex; and...

6th and early 5th century BCE was a hairstyle worn primarily by the materfamilias, the mother of the family. It remained in constant use even when fashion...

Company, New York Publication date 1900 Publication place Australia Media type Print Pages 338pp Preceded by Materfamilias  Followed by The Devastators ...

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domestic Lares, and one to her husband. If the marriage made her a materfamilias, she took joint responsibility with her husband for aspects of household...