CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Tepidarium, Hot Tub, Otium
15 Apr 2017
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Otium: the time spent & the activities which the romans engaged in after withdrawing from finishing their negotium. This included their activities during both their daily free time & their more permanent retirement from pubic life. "leisure, catullus, is mischievous to you: you revel in & desire leisure too much: Leisure has previously destroyed kings & bountiful cities. " Believed leisure was solely retirement from active public life. "leisure without literature is death & burial for a living man" - de otio. Opinion reflects that of equestrians & senators (much like cicero) Otiumis business that needs to be conducted, though not in public. Proper otiumwas time that should be used to engage in activities that provided service or were artistically valuable (e. g. philosophy, mathematics, etc. ) "i preferred to go on with my studies, & as it happened he had himself given me some writing to do. "
