Marriage & Divorce in Antiquity

Lynn and the Polygamous Hobo Discuss Matrimony and Society

“Provisions for divorce (or lack of) are another aspect of Christianity that is more Roman than preRoman European or Semitic.”

-Lynn

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This is an area I am notoriously weak in. I will simply note what I can recall of historical marriage.

Prehistoric weddings seem to have tended to informal cohabitation and survival agreements between a man and a woman, w…