funeral Eulogy for Murdia
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 09-04-14 15:12
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- Funeral Eulogy for Murdia
- written in the first century BC by her first son
- shows she doesn't have a husband as it would be given by closest male relative
- Murdia had two marriages and had one son with the first husband and sons and a daughter with the second
- she made all her sons equal heirs and an endowment to her daughter
- clever and organised
- symbolical that her love is shared out amongst her children
- she left large amount of money to her husband so that he could re-marry a respectable women
- shows love and devotion to her huband
- forward thinking
- she made sure her first son was given certain property and returned to him part of her first husbands inheritance
- out of respect to her first husband not because she preferred this son
- because he should also inherit from his dad
- she was grateful
- she was determined to maintain the worthy marriages her parents had given her with obedience and propriety
- her will indicated her honourable intentions to her husbands, her fairness to her children and her sincere actions
- he praises his mother for her modesty, propriety, chastity, obedience, wool-working, industry and loyalty
- he thinks all good women have these qualities and should be praised
- these are praised even more because she showed them in times of danger
- her name isn't mentioned showing she was a respectable matron
- written in the first century BC by her first son
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