{"id":50985,"date":"2019-06-09T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/entering-the-world-of-adult-romans\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:58:17","slug":"entering-the-world-of-adult-romans","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/entering-the-world-of-adult-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering the world of adult Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ritual of maturing a young Roman consisted of shaving a beard and removing his bulla, an amulet worn to protect him from evil spirits. The young man dedicated a bull to the house deities, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/lares\/\">Lares<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then he founded a toga, the so-called <em>toga virilis<\/em> (&#8220;toga masculinity&#8221;), was registered as a citizen for census and began his military service. The whole ceremony took place during the Liberaliensis (17th of March), a festival in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/honor\/\">honor<\/a> of the god <em>Liber Pater<\/em>, which embodied political and sexual freedom. Sometimes, however, the date was chosen individually.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Roman women, in turn, compared to the Greeks, did not have such rich rituals of transition into the adult world. The mature <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/roman-woman\/\">Roman woman<\/a> sacrificed her doll to Artemis, the goddess of girlhood, or Aphrodite, when she was marring. During the rite of transition to the adult world, the girl worn <em>recta tunica<\/em> (&#8220;vertical tunic&#8221;), which she usually spooled herself.<\/p>\n<p>Romans were obliged by Roman tradition to remain virgins until <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/marriage-and-love-life-in-ancient-rome\/\">marriage<\/a>. Men, on the other hand, were very often deliberately taken to the lupanary, so that they could lose their virtue with a trained concubine there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36219,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-50985","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\/50985","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\/50985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=50985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}