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Based is based

Women in rome didn't even have a proper name

Just their family name

And boys and girls were raised very differently + patriarchs led the family

that's not accurate, women had the same naming scheme as men

a family name plus a given name and often nickname

romans typically put what we would call the surname first

probably what's confusing you

They did not

The women of a roman family had the same name

For example

Julia

Julia secunda

etc

Might've been Prima for the first one

but the daugthers all shared names

Right, Julia is the family name

So the boys would be named Julius and the girls Julia

The family would be called the Julii

The praenomen was the chosen name from the parents

Then you would have a cognomen, which is something about you- romans changed names all the time

It was common, especially among aristocrats, for a mentor to adopt an adult mentee

As a sign of respect and allegiance

And the man or woman would change their nomen

The praenoma of women came from their mothers though

Sometimes, just like first boys are sometimes named Junior, III, IV

No that was definately the norm

Sometimes

And familes would recycle their names

Yeah, for boys and girls

We do that now too

Yup

But to a larger extent

Among patricians yes

But our upper classes do it more than lower classes too

But yeah if you look at the actual names of emperors it’s like oh look another gaius Julius

Learn something new every day

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There has always been 2 genders in history

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