CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pater Familias, Gladiator
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Pia (loyal, faithful, respectful of patria potestas), pudica (chaste, never having sex with someone other than her husband), lanifica (rule maker), domiseda (home sitter, doesn"t go around) Roman tombs are by the road, somebody speaks the inscription and says stop to listen (respectful) Always want to know who their parents were (as a roman), daughter claudia means father is claudius. Affection could arise from arranged marriages (usually arranged because of politics): people however did not care about love more about harmony. She was pudica, only wife means that he didn"t need another one (only one who mattered), were probably slaves in the same house (good guess it"s a love match) Plinys letters usually are to other aristocrats so the correspondence is usually for politics(?) Young man finds that his lover is cruel (in roman love poetry), very standard for poet to produce a poem where he stands outside a girls house while her door is locked.
