AR105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Latifundium, Sestertius, Parentalia
30 Mar 2016
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30 marriage = bitch tyranny and voluntary servitude. 34 37: beter to engaged in pederasty. 53 54: women"s voracious sexual desires. 115 132: e. g. , emperess messalina wolf girl: . 208: marriage = voluntary servitude: submissiveness of husbands. 268 269: marital bed -> quarrels. 273 275: marital beds deiled by adultery. 317 318: women"s insaiety for sex. 627: wives as murderers of their stepchildren -> wicked stepmothers! Slaves = about 30% of populaion of rome in early empire. Slave sources: born into slavery, prisoners of war, children kidnapped and sold by pirates, babies exposed at birth, convicted criminals. **verna (pl. vernae) slave born in master"s house. Slave types: domesic = household chores, industrial. Worked on building projects, construcion of roads, maintenance of aqueducts. **slave rebellions (slave could purchase his freedom with peculium) **manumissio = to send out of one"s hand : appear before magistrate, or master could manumit slave in his will (free)
