IAmCornholio

Hello; I didn't care about Rome until a political commentator I like started plugging Michael Parenti's "A People's History of Ancient Rome". Painting Caesar as betraying his class interest and fighting the sneering Cicero and Cato adds some colour to this dead civilisation that I didn't find in grade school. That leaves a massive question for me, though; I'm a very proud and vengeful person, and if my sister had an affair with a political rival, and if I thought I could get away with killing her, I think I would. Knowing that Romans could kill their children and even sell them into slavery, what laws did they have against spousal abuse, and how badly do historians think Romans treated their wives for having affairs?