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Or, What the Romans Can Tell Us
Venus Maritima - Pompeii
Wolf of the Capitoline - Rome
Agenda
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Writing Corner
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Background
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What’s not Right?
Some History
Roman S&G 101
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Social History, Cultural Values, or What Would Finnis &
Nussbaum Say?
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Writing Corner
What’s Not Right?
What Do You See?
In Halperin’s One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
[titles], he [pron] said
“The debate to which you refer reflects a
longstanding (and some would argue, sterile)
ideological dispute [text text text].” (Halperin, pg. 32.)
[quotes]
Because enkrateia is about honor. Because it’s extremely
easy to prove they’re beliefs. [frags, they] Sexuality was a
debate between Ancient Grecians since Time
Immemorial up to the present and Foucault publishes
around it and a scholar writes about it and when you are
reading them. [frag, florid, padding AR, CT, case, they,
you]
Background
Some History…
Basilica of Maxentius
Arch of Constantine
Capitoline Wolf
Ancient Italy
Augustus
Roman Empire
Timeline
753-510 BCE
Regal period
Ruled by kings.
510-27 BCE
Republic
Mixed constitution: oligarchic, quasi-democratic.
27 BCE-293 CE Principate (Early Empire)
De facto monarchy (imperātor, Caesar, princeps)
Roman S&G 101
Social History, Cultural Values
Virtus romana
virtus
“manliness / courage / virtue”
mos maiorum
“way of the ancestors”
pietas
“filial devotion”
gravitas
“seriousness”
severitas
“uncompromising moral austerity”
pudicitia
“sexual continence”
Bust of Roman aristocrat, late
Republic (1st cent. BCE)
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Women: Athenian v. Roman…
Athenian women
 elite
 emphasis on marriage,
procreation
 legal minors
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non-propertied (mostly)
non-educated (??)
non-political
domestic
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sexually-socially restricted
non-elite
 employed outside home
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Roman women
 elite
 emphasis on marriage,
procreation
 also legal minors (with
certain freedoms)
 propertied
 educated
 politically influential
 prominent outside house
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socially-sexually less restricted
non-elite
 involved in trades
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Sex-Gender-Status-Dichotomies
senior v. junior
 active v. passive
 vir v.
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femina
puer
cinaedus
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virgo
meretrix
ingenuus/ingenua v.
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matrona v.
servus/serva
libertus/liberta
patronus v. cliens
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Stuprum versus pudicitia
stuprum
 debauchery
 lewdness
 violation
pudicitia
 modesty
 chastity
 virtue
from Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary
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Holt Parker’s “Teratogenic Grid”
SUBJECT
ACTION-LOCUS
vagina anus
Active
futuere pedicare
vir
fututor pedicator/pedico
Passive
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pedicari
male (cinaedus)
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pathicus
female (femina/puella) futui
pathica
mouth
irrumare
irrumator
fellare
fellator
fellatrix