1. The paterfamilias

3. Status Name

4. Family man

6. TOGA Impress

7. Make money

8. Provider

9. “Where the head of the family has children in his power, he is allowed to appoint guardians for them by will. That is, for males while under puberty, but for females however old they are, even when they are married.” Gaius, Institutes 1.144-5

10. Educator Role model

12. Our children, the issue of a valid Roman marriage, are in our power. Whoever is born of you and your wife, that is to say, your grandson and granddaughter, are equally in your power, and your great- grandson and great-granddaughter, and so forth. But the child born of your daughter is not in your power, but in that of its own father. Justinian, Institutes

15. Romulus granted to the Roman father absolute power over his son, and this power was valid until the father’s death, whether he decided to imprison him, or whip him, to put him in chains and make him work on a farm, or even to kill him. Romulus even allowed the Roman father to sell his son into slavery. Dionysius of Halicarnassus 2.26-27

16. Responsibility

19. Pious

20. A genius was a guardian spirit representing the paterfamilias; hence the figurine is clothed in a toga with top pulled up to cover the head.

21. detail of genius (spirit) of the paterfamilias flanked by two lares

25. Client Patron

26. Salutatio