Quote Originally Posted by DionCaesar View Post
Just a funny thing I realised, but in reality many leaders in EB's timeframe had many wives, and divorced regularly for all kinds of reasons. Romans used to divorce to be able to forge new political alliances with other families, and even people like the Gauls are said to have done this. In the game this does never happen (I'm not asking for this feature to be added, because I'm 99% sure that it 's impossible).

Just wanted to say this, it kind of struck me that I realised it this late, after many hours of RTW / EB.

Vale amices !
Actually with the Gauls we have virtually no evidence for any of their society, archaeology can give us a guess but there is no substitute for written documentation.

That said the Romans divorced for a wide variety of reasons I will go over only a few. Remember though that Roman Law does not require a reason to divorce for most of this time period, the Roman Marriage was just an agreement between two people, a wife or husband could end his or her marriage at any point for no reason at all, there are obviously thousands of reasons lost to history.

1. "Honey I'm hopelessly in love with a much younger woman then you"
2. "Sorry but I can't afford the suspence of thinking about you in battle (Roman Law openly recommended that a wife divorce a husband called to the front)
3. People in it just couldn't get along
4. The husband handled money horribly (Cicero praises divorces on those grounds)
5. (Allegedly from Cicero) Wife handles husbands estate for the purpose of increasing her own

Those are five known reasons, there are a lot more mentioned and possibly more unmentioned. Egypt was pretty free with divorce to, although we know a lot less about that then Rome. The Greeks had divorce to, but that was just a way a husband could punish a wife and if Athens is a representative example a wife never under any circumstances had an option of divorce.