CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Villa Romana Del Casale, Otium, Knucklebones
2 Feb 2016
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The time spent and the activities they engaged in after withdrawing from finishing their business (negotium) This included their activities during both their daily free time. Cicero: writing vs. ball games, knucklebones, dice games. Seneca the younger: leisure without literature is death and burial for a living man (de otio) Otium was a productive, peaceful time, but still business to be conducted. Upper class roman attitude: necessary, but not to be overindulged. Proper leisure time should still be used for meaningful activities (eg. teaching children, reading and writing, oratory pursuits, philosophy, mathematics) Villa of the papyri: private library with philosophical writing. Banqueting mosaics from pompeii (the house of the chaste lovers) Petronius" satyricon (the banquet of trimalchio- the more exotic the food, the better to show off a patron"s wealth) The messy floor mosaic: floor of a roman dining room. Hunting often began at a young age. Could be found everywhere- over 800 public bath houses.
