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Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us?

Venus Maritima - Pompeii. Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome. Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us?. Agenda. Recap and Update Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum “Pan-Mediterranean Thesis” Macro-Regional-Historical Continities? Background Some History Roman S&G 101 Social History, Cultural Values

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Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us?

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  1. Venus Maritima - Pompeii Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us?

  2. Agenda • Recap and Update • Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum • “Pan-Mediterranean Thesis” • Macro-Regional-Historical Continities? • Background • Some History • Roman S&G 101 • Social History, Cultural Values • Oral Presentation • Williams on Homoeroticism in a Roman Context

  3. Recap and Update Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum

  4. “Pan-Mediterranean Thesis” Macro-Regional-Historical Continities?

  5. quote… Mediterranean World

  6. Background Some History…

  7. Basilica of Maxentius Arch of Constantine

  8. Capitoline Wolf Augustus Ancient Italy Roman Empire

  9. Timeline

  10. Roman S&G 101 Social History, Cultural Values

  11. 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)

  12. 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 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 Women: Athenian v. Roman…

  13. senior v. junior active v. passive vir v. femina puer cinaedus matrona v. virgo meretrix ingenuus/ingenua v. servus/serva libertus/liberta patronus v. cliens Sex-Gender-Status-Dichotomies

  14. stuprum debauchery lewdness violation pudicitia modesty chastity virtue Stuprum versus pudicitia from Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary

  15. Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid”

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