CLAS 21405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lamprey, Vestal Virgin, Cassius Dio
13 Sep 2017
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Women"s virtues. focused on their private lives: most notably on their marriages and the production of children, defined by the men of rome"s patriarchal society, castitas, chastity or sexual fidelity, a virtue for married women as well. Families were expected to have as many children as possible: hilaritas and laetitia, both latin terms for happiness, it was expected of wives to be happy and pleasant in their marriages. Vedius pollio: primarily a story of a master"s treatment of his slaves, masters had absolute power over their slaves. They had the power of life and death. To impress the emperor, pollio put out all of his best dinnerware, including some priceless crystal goblets: during the course of the dinner, however, one of the slaves dropped and broke one of the goblets. Augustus, even as the emperor, did not have the legal right to intervene in pollio"s master-slave relationship, but he was able to socially criticize the action.
