For a variety of reasons, it is often presumed that the ancient Mediterranean world of Roman Corinth was a culture of near universal marriage. Peter Laslett, for example, classified household composition in traditional Europe into four broad categories based on geographical region: the West, the West/central, the Mediterranean, and the East.1 The Mediterranean household in Laslett’s typology (including Greece and what was Roman Corinth) was characterized by high proportions of both male and female marrying and a low proportion of solitary households.2 From her extensive analysis of Roman sources, Susan Treggiari also has concluded that there was a strong cultural disposition toward marriage and it was rare for a man to reach age sixty without having married, at least among the propertied classes.3 The case has been further bolstered by later studies and some demographic modelling from the same period.4