Talk:Adoption in ancient Rome

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In paragraph one: "The six sons and daughters of Appius Claudius Pulcher" is ambiguous. It might be better to say "six children" or "twelve children" (which ever is appropriate). Malcohol 11:40, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Too bad it's pretty much completely irrelevant(?), but it's amusing to note the parallels between this entire concept and the Simpsons episode Burns' Heir... Krupo 04:48, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Why not? A lot of articles have a "references in pop culture" section. Simon A. 08:08, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've once read that a good deal of male upper-class romans suffered from impotence, suspected to be caused by lead poisoning -- because lower-class people got their water from the public fountains at the ends of the aquaeducts (built of stone) while rich people used lead pipes to move on the water to their houses. And as we know today, but they didn't, the low, but steady lead intake can cause poisoning, with impotence being one of the prime symptoms. This, of course, would have forced them to adopt children. So, is there truth to this claim? But I can't remember where I read it.) Simon A. 08:08, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Rich families adopted children produced by other rich families, so probably not. Markalexander100 09:36, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

well, actually, we know plenty of the hazards of lead, and other toxic chemicals, but we routinely let it into our drinking water supplies, food, etc, because right wingers and anti-environmentalists and business lobbyists and all sorts of other entrenched interests do not want the system to change. maybe the romans did know, perhaps they, like us, just had other priorities in their society besides pollution. for example if you are constantly killing barbarians and defending against terrorist attacks, who has time for penny-anny stuff like the environmental wackos telling you about poisonous drinking pipes. do you know how much it would cost to replace all the drinking pipes? like today, imagine we discover that pvc in water supplies is bad (well it is to an extent). nobody is going to go and change all that stuff just because its poisoning us. instead they are going to hire sham doctors and scientists to spend millions of dollars proving that its 'not that bad for you'.


Somebody changed the words Rome for Afganistan and placed Taliban for another.

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Would it be better to rename this to 'Adoption in Ancient Rome'? I read this as a link off of Adoption, before it was a featured article, and expected to read something about present-day Rome. Saforrest 15:57, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

what about the slaves? what about adopting female kids?

Renaming to Adoption in Ancient Rome seems a good idea to me. Renaming to Adoption of white upper-class males in Ancient Rome would perhaps be excessive. Markalexander100 01:55, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Well, Rome didn't have a concept of the white race, even though patricians (being descended from native families) would tend to be white by our standards. But Adoption of patrician males in ancient Rome is all that we cover right now, it's true. Anyway, Adoption in ancient Rome would be more appropriate than the current title. -- Toby Bartels 04:12, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC) Yes that actually does make sense Mr. Burns adopting Homers son as his succesor. HAHAHAHA. Wwell im only a kid ignore what i say i only contribiuted to some of the text. Its always at the bottom!

Somewhat belatedly, I'll add my support to the suggestion to rename the article to Adoption in Ancient Rome, and seeing that no one has opposed this in almost a year, I guess it is time to be bold, go ahead and make the move. / Alarm 22:33, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be deleted? the title is already changed to the one suggested [[User:HuGo_87|HuGo_87] 04:55, 16 August 2005 (GMT)

[edit] Ben-Hur

Is the adoption of the Judean galley slave Judah Ben-Hur by the Roman official Quintus Arrius unusual? Was Lew Wallace forcing history to match his plot?

Freedmen were sometimes adopted by patricians; Suetonius mentions it in a few places. I seriously doubt a Jewish slave could be adopted without havign to give up his religion, though; and wasn't Ben-hur fictional anyways?Kuralyov 06:56, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Yes, it was fictional, "Kuralyov," but, at that time(c. A.D. 27), he probably would not need to(I do not believe that Jews were banished from Rome until in the reign of Caesar Claudius). In addition(I hope that is not irrelevant), Judah Ben-Hur was a high-ranking nobleman before he was enslaved. I hoped that I was permitted to have answered your questions.--Anglius 00:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re-adoption?

Please excuse, gentlemen, but was a Roman patrician allowed to have been adopted twice?--Anglius 00:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)