They often didn’t name their male sons either, this wasn’t really a sexism thing, more of a child mortality thing. They were pretty fucking awful though, the roman elite behaved like proto-incels, blaming women for all their problems while simultaneously expecting their wives to wait on them hand and foot and do everything for them.
Just throwing this on the pile: in the late Republic there was a shortage of female Romans as a result of sex-selective infanticide. Now, Rome is not the only civilization where this has happened, but it’s really telling that their response was not to outlaw the killing of baby girls, but instead to make it legal for male citizens to marry female non-citizens.
Even compared to its contemporaries. One of the stereotypes about Romans at the time was that they were incapable of loving their wives or children.
Romans are boomers confirmed.
They didn’t bother naming their daughters. Romans were on a whole fucking level
They often didn’t name their male sons either, this wasn’t really a sexism thing, more of a child mortality thing. They were pretty fucking awful though, the roman elite behaved like proto-incels, blaming women for all their problems while simultaneously expecting their wives to wait on them hand and foot and do everything for them.
Just throwing this on the pile: in the late Republic there was a shortage of female Romans as a result of sex-selective infanticide. Now, Rome is not the only civilization where this has happened, but it’s really telling that their response was not to outlaw the killing of baby girls, but instead to make it legal for male citizens to marry female non-citizens.
Male sons did get to end up with names however