CLASSIC 20 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Manus Marriage, Confarreatio, Propertius
Document Summary
Ovid: old equestrian family, one brother, public career abandoned. Roman elegy: developed in archaic greece; themes are love and submission to women; gallus, Gallus: military general and poet; committed suicide; 4 books of elegy; girlfriend is lycoris. Propertius: themes of poems are more critical and political; girlfriend is cynthia (allusion to. Sulpicia: female writer of elegy; boyfriend is cerinthus; died on an embassy to antony. The loves (amores): girlfriend of ovid, corinna; 3 books. Corinna: girlfriend of ovid; everybody wanted to know who she was. The art of love: purports to be serious; sex manual; 3 books; book 3 for women; by ovid; narrator is teacher of love. Roman marriage: not a choice but an obligation manus: authority over another person (wife, child, slave) Legal restrictions on women: oppian law- luxury restrictions during punic war; voconian law- restrictions on amount of property a women could inherit.
