{"id":126527,"date":"2023-08-04T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=126527"},"modified":"2023-08-06T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T08:08:14","slug":"dowry-hunters-in-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/dowry-hunters-in-roman-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowry hunters in Roman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely some of us have heard of a situation where someone married someone to take over his property. It turns out that such a wicked way of getting rich was practiced long ago, in ancient Rome. Men who commit such acts are now known as <strong>bounty hunters<\/strong>. Interestingly, this was quite common in the early centuries of our era.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Roman poet who lived in the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. <strong>Marcus Valerius Martialis <\/strong>wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\">Gemellus is a-wooing Maronilla. He is eager and insistent, begs her, gives her presents. Is she such a beauty? On the contrary, she couldn\u2019t be uglier. So what is so desirable about her, so attractive? Her cough<\/p>\n<p class=\"male3\">&#8211; <strong>Martial<\/strong>, <em>Epigrams<\/em>, I, 10<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A cough, of course, means poor health. Gemellus counts on Maronilly&#8217;s quick death to take over her fortune. This was not an isolated case. As Mr. Alberto Angela writes in his book:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\">There are a lot of fortune hunters in Roman society, circling like sharks in search of prey<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"Own translation from Polish.\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"male3\">&#8211; A. Angela, <em>Imperium<\/em>, ed. Sp\u00f3\u0142dzielnia Wydawnicza &#8220;Czytelnik&#8221; Warsaw 2019 p. 168<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As we can see, the practice of getting married in order to take over property was present a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":126521,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-126527","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/126527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/126527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=126527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}