Classical Studies 2300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pollice Verso, Cursus Honorum, Otium
19 Apr 2016
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Final exam review quotes after the midterm. Juvenal, satire 3 - those erstwhile players of horns, those perpetual friends. Of public arenas, noted through all the towns for their rounded cheeks, now mount shows themselves, and kill to please when the mob demand it with a turned thumb (pollice verso) Explanation please the mob when death was demanded, signified by a turned thumb (any direction). Cassius dio - after lunch commodus would fight as a gladiator. Explanation 192 ce had an unequal fight, commodus got a wooden sword, the enemy a stick. Commodus paid himself a lot to participate, gladiators received low payment. Explanation time in the republic people could retire, or work if they preferred. Pliny, panegyric - for it is by a man"s pleasures his pleasures indeed that his sense of dignity, integrity and moderation can best be judged. Explanation otium defined by how we spend leisure time, dignity is judged by ones pleasures.
