CLAS 1000 Lecture 6: (Entertainment) Crime and Punishment in the Roman World/Roman Sexuality and Gender

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

(entertainment) crime and punishment in the roman world. Appian way: one of the earliest and strategically most important roman roads. Roman sexuality and gender: venus and aeneas. Heart of roman identity: mother of aeneas. Baths were the equivalent of the gymnasium in rome. Ampliate felator = angry graffiti: man performs oral sex on another man. Eros cinedae: passive recipient of male intercourse. Francis i of naples 1819: found the sexual art and ordered it to be put away. Oscar wilde everything in the world is about sex except sex. Romans began with the rape of rhea silvia. Sexual imperialism: women on the coin morning = loser. Nero and poppaea sabina: nero kicked poppaea to death, married a slave sporous that looked like his wife, had sporous casterated. Nero and pythagoras: huge issue, nero dressed as the bride, emphasis on weakness and passiveness.