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Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us?
Venus Maritima - Pompeii
Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome
Agenda
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Recap and Update
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“Pan-Mediterranean Thesis”
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Some History
Roman S&G 101
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Macro-Regional-Historical Continities?
Background
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Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum
Social History, Cultural Values
Oral Presentation
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Williams on Homoeroticism in a Roman Context
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Recap and Update
Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum
5/25/2017
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“Pan-Mediterranean Thesis”
Macro-Regional-Historical
Continities?
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quote…
Mediterranean World
Background
Some History…
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Basilica of Maxentius
Arch of Constantine
Capitoline Wolf
Augustus
Ancient Italy
Roman Empire
Timeline
753-510 BCE
Regal period
Ruled by kings.
510-27 BCE
Republic
Mixed constitution: oligarchic, quasi-democratic.
27 BCE-293 CE Principate (Early Empire)
De facto monarchy (imperātor, Caesar, princeps)
Roman S&G 101
Social History, Cultural Values
5/25/2017
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Virtus romana
virtus
“manliness / courage / virtue”
mos maiorum
“way of the ancestors”
pietas
“filial devotion”
gravitas
“seriousness”
severitas
“uncompromising moral austerity”
pudicitia
“sexual continence”
Bust of Roman aristocrat, late
Republic (1st cent. BCE)
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Women: Athenian v. Roman…
Athenian women
 elite
 emphasis on marriage,
procreation
 legal minors
 non-propertied (mostly)
 non-educated (??)
 non-political
 domestic
 sexually-socially restricted
 non-elite
 employed outside home
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Roman women
 elite
 emphasis on marriage,
procreation
 also legal minors (with
certain freedoms)
 propertied
 educated
 politically influential
 prominent outside house
 socially-sexually less
restricted
 non-elite
 involved in trades
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Sex-Gender-Status-Dichotomies
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senior v. junior
 active v. passive
 vir v.
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femina
puer
cinaedus
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virgo
meretrix
ingenuus/ingenua v.
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matrona v.
servus/serva
libertus/liberta
patronus v. cliens
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Stuprum versus pudicitia
stuprum
 debauchery
 lewdness
 violation
pudicitia
 modesty
 chastity
 virtue
from Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary
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Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid”
SUBJECT
ACTION-LOCUS
vagina anus
Active
futuere pedicare
vir
fututor pedicator/pedico
Passive
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pedicari
male (cinaedus)
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pathicus
female (femina/puella) futui
pathica
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mouth
irrumare
irrumator
fellare
fellator
fellatrix
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