id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2944 Marriage in ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 6545 747 68 By the time of Julius Caesar, it was largely abandoned in favour of "free" marriage;[19] when a wife moved into her husband's home, she remained under her father's lawful authority; but she did not conduct her daily life under his direct scrutiny.[20] and her husband had no legal power over her.[21] This was one of the factors in the independence Roman women enjoyed, relative to those of many other ancient cultures and up to the modern period:[22] Free marriage usually involved two citizens of equal or near-equal status, or a citizen and a person who held Latin rights. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2944.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2944.txt