The law is that “Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians.” (Pg.120) This law gives us a better understanding to how valued class division was to Roman’s people and how they wanted to strongly keep the royal bloodline pure and also can show that marriage was not always about love but more for gaining power and/or a political negotiations. Another law for the Twelve Tables that can gives us a better inside look into Rome’s living and surrounding areas is in the law of discarding a corpse and the law goes “None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city.” (Pg.120) this law shows us a little into the system Rome has placed on cleanliness and avoidance to spreading diseases. This also gives the impression that the Romans seemed to know that corpse were not healthy for the people living in the city and to avoid any more diseases to spread, bodies were to be discarded away from the populated city
The law is that “Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians.” (Pg.120) This law gives us a better understanding to how valued class division was to Roman’s people and how they wanted to strongly keep the royal bloodline pure and also can show that marriage was not always about love but more for gaining power and/or a political negotiations. Another law for the Twelve Tables that can gives us a better inside look into Rome’s living and surrounding areas is in the law of discarding a corpse and the law goes “None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city.” (Pg.120) this law shows us a little into the system Rome has placed on cleanliness and avoidance to spreading diseases. This also gives the impression that the Romans seemed to know that corpse were not healthy for the people living in the city and to avoid any more diseases to spread, bodies were to be discarded away from the populated city