Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Playing Card, Imperium, Ennius

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Many similarities with women of classical athens women lack legal and political presence in. Slide: portrait of a roman woman (matrona respectable, married, elite woman). Almost all the information we have derives from elite roman males: roman women did write though (ex. Usually women were portrayed stereotypically by men as: (1) chaste wives, mothers, and daughters respectable and virtuous (2) evil seductress, scheming power-mongers. Slide: roman statue portraying a matrona (the first element for a matrona is her role as a mother: roman women focused on motherhood and the virtuous women focus on advancing the cause of their children. In this statue, the roman boy wears a pendant around his neck (bulla) that is filled with apotropaic symbols to ward off evil (when he becomes a man he stops wearing it). The reality is more complex: women in roman society played many roles. Scholarship has focused on them rather narrowly (i. e. how they relate to men).