The wedding ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl"s transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire (from ca. 200 BC to 200 AD), Karen Hersch shows how the Roman wedding expressed the ideals and norms of an ancient people. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity (Karen K. Hersch)