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A depiction of two lovers at a wedding. From the Aldobrandini Wedding fresco Ancient Roman bulla. Weddings in ancient Rome were a sacred ritual involving many religious practices. In order for the wedding to take place the bride and the groom or their fathers needed to consent to the wedding.
Marriage in ancient Rome ... Casa della Farnesina in Rome (c. 19 BC) A confarreatio wedding ceremony was a rare event reserved for the highest echelons of Rome's elite.
In ancient Rome, confarreatio was a traditional patrician form of marriage. [1] The ceremony involved the bride and bridegroom sharing a cake of emmer, in Latin far or panis farreus, [2] [3] hence the rite's name. (Far is often translated as "spelt", which is inaccurate as the grain used was Triticum dicoccum , not Triticum speltum. [4])
The so-called Aldobrandini Wedding (Nozze Aldobrandini) fresco is an influential Ancient Roman painting, of the second half of the 1st century BC, on display in the Vatican Museum. It depicts a wedding along with several mythological figures.
Relief showing a Roman marriage ceremony. Museo di Capodimonte. Manus (/ ˈ m eɪ n ə s / MAY-nəs; Latin:) was an Ancient Roman type of marriage, [1] of which there were two forms: cum manu and sine manu. [2] In a cum manu marriage, the wife was placed under the legal control of the husband.
The wedding ceremony was in part a rite of passage for the bride, as Rome lacked the elaborate female puberty rituals of ancient Greece. [451] On the night before the wedding, the bride bound up her hair with a yellow hairnet she had woven.
Suetonius tells the story of Nero's being the bride to a freedman named "Doryphorus". Both Tacitus and Dio Cassius mention only "Pythagoras". According to Champlin, it is improbable that a second imperial wedding occurred without being noted, and the simplest solution is that Suetonius mistook the name. [6]
Crowns became essential parts of the regalia of the Roman emperors during the Roman imperial period. [21] The laurel wreaths of a triumphator were often worn by imperial portraits, as were radiate crowns. [21] According to Pliny the Elder, the Arval Brethren, an ancient Roman priesthood, were accustomed to wear a wreath of grain sheaves. [22]