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Showing posts with label TR1 Early Latin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TR1 Early Latin. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Off Limits: A Friend's Advice on Love, Plautus Curculio 35-38

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Off Limits: The Ultimate Dating Guide to Ancient Rome Name :  Plautus Date :  254 – 184 BCE Region :  [modern Italy] Citati...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Boys and Girls: Grammatical Gender in Early Roman Literature

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 Latin classrooms tend to teach  puella / puer  as binary opposites [ girl / boy ], but the etymology of these terms is very complex.  Puer ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

The Double Standard: Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights x.xxiii.1-5

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    An excerpt of Marcus Cato’s speech about traditional gender norms of women, which mentions the right for a husband to kill his wife caug...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Insights into Gender Norms of Early Rome: fragments of Accius and Naevius

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  GENDER ROLES IN EARLY ROME: Never was a girlfriend ( amica ) more faithful to her lover ( amanti ) Than a boyfriend ( amico ) is to his ...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Insights on the Treatment of Women in Early Rome: A Fragment of Naevius

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Name : Naevius Date :   3rd century BCE Region :   [modern Italy] Citation :  Fragment 12   Desubito famam tollunt si...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

M/M: A Health Scare, Fronto Ad Caes. 4.12

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Name :  Fronto and Marcus Aurelius Date :  100 – 170 CE Region :  Cirta [modern Algeria], Rome [modern Italy] Citation : Fr...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

M/M: We Both Go Down Together: Orestes & Pylades, Cicero de Fin. V.22.63

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"Ego sum Orestes", contraque ab altero: "Immo enimvero ego sum, inquam, Orestes!" Cum autem etiam exitus ab utroque datu...