This Ted-Ed video focuses on Roman girls. Their lives seem very limited to us. However, there was quite a bit of subversion of "the rules." Sometimes it was enabled by the love of fathers, mothers, husbands, brothers, sisters, lovers and female friends; sometimes it was because women became clever (and therefore often criticized) for manipulating the system. Both this video and the preceding one about Roman boys focus on upper class women. If you were not upper class you had limited resources, but often more freedom.
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