Published: 2019-04-17

The Ancient Roman Prohibition on Wine Drinking by Women

Jan Zabłocki
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.11

Abstract

It is generally assumed that the nature of the ban on the drinking of wine by women was customary or religious, although we cannot rule out the possibility of a mythological aetiology. Infringement was punishable, and a husband who caught his wife in the act could mete out severe retribution. In other circumstances the offending woman could be punished by her husband and relatives, probably within the framework of iudicium domesticum, or following her divorce by a judge, perhaps in a iudicium de moribus.

Keywords:

wine drinking, women, censor, judge, iudicium de moribus, iudicium domesticum.

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Zabłocki, J. (2019). The Ancient Roman Prohibition on Wine Drinking by Women. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 19(1), 189–202. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.11

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