ANCS-1007EL Lecture 8: Chapters 5-6
21 Apr 2017
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The story of lucretia may not even be true (and was definitely modified) but it represents how romans expected their women to act. Middle/low class women would have to help their slaves, but even the elite were responsible for them while their husbands did whatever. Men also left for months or years for the army, which left the women solely responsible for the household and/or businesses. The elite women would commission statues which portrayed them in the greek style as. Venus, which is completely against the chaste image. The statue was usually naked, but the romans were not big on nudity like the. Greeks, she would probably pose for the head and paste it on a generic venus body. This is less about wanting to be a sexual being, but more about the association with deity and to be more like the greeks (which went in and out of style)
