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Showing posts with label TR2 Republican Rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TR2 Republican Rome. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

The Theft of A Statue of Sappho: Cicero, In Verr. 2.4.126,127

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Name :  Cicero Date :  106 – 43 BCE Region :  Rome [modern Italy] Citation :   Against Verres 2.4.126-127 The statue ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

M/M: Our Hearts Will Light the Way, A Fragment from Valerius Aedituus

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Our Hearts Will Light the Way: An Early Roman Poet to His Boyfriend Name : Valerius Aedituus Date :  1st century BCE Region ...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

M/M: A Heart Has Found Its Home, Quintus Lutatius Catullus

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Name :  Quintus Lutatius Catulus Date :  2nd century BCE Region :     [modern Italy] Citation :     Preserved in Aulus Gell...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

M/M: Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Cicero, de Natura Deorum I1.79

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Name :  Cicero Date :  106 – 43 BCE Region :  Rome [modern Italy] Citation :   On the Nature of the Gods, 1.79 For th...
Friday, December 31, 2021

M/M: I'll Be Everything You Need: A Frament of Lucilius

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  Think of me as your supporter, your friend, your lover. Favitorem tibi me, amicum, amatorem putes. --Lucilius fr. 874 Lucilius (2nd centur...
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 ...

Spartan Women: Accius, fr. 31-32

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Spartan Women Don’t Care About Babies Name : Accius   Date :    170 – 86 BCE Region :    Umbria [modern Italy] Citation :...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Challenging Gender Roles: Two Fragments of Accius on Achilles, Accius, fr. 28 & 304

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Name : Accius  Date :   170 – 86 BCE Region :   Umbria [modern Italy] Citation :  fragment 28, 304 1) Achilles on Sky...