Or, What Can the Romans Tell Us? Venus Maritima - Pompeii Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome
10/27/20152 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
10/27/20153 Recap and Update Gender, Rome, Finnis, Nussbaum
10/27/20154 “Pan-Mediterranean Thesis” Macro-Regional-Historical Continities?
Mediterranean World quote…
“A good way to begin is to read the ethnographies of contemporary rural societies around the Mediterranean. The paramount concerns are generated within a framework of scarcity, competition, and intense mutual inspection.” (Winkler in Constraints of Desire 27)
10/27/20157 Background Some History…
Basilica of MaxentiusArch of Constantine
Ancient ItalyRoman Empire Augustus Capitoline Wolf
BCERegal period Ruled by kings BCERepublic Mixed constitution: oligarchic, quasi-democratic. 27 BCE-293 CEPrincipate (Early Empire) De facto monarchy (imperātor, Caesar, princeps) Timeline
10/27/ Roman S&G 101 Social History, Cultural Values
10/27/ 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)
10/27/ 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 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
10/27/ Sex-Gender-Status-Dichotomies 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
10/27/ Stuprum versus pudicitia stuprum debauchery lewdness violation pudicitia modesty chastity virtue from Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary
10/27/ Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid”