HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Diocletian, Chariot Racing, List Of Black Mirror Episodes
6 Dec 2020
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Otium was leisure time, negotium was work or not leisure time". Most of their time would be dedicated to otium. The idea of acceptable and unacceptable otium. The idea of upper and lower class otium was very different. Upper class otium seneca, ep. 82 otium without literature is death . The elite would spend their time composing speeches, poetry and novels to entertain. Texts would be real out loud, even in private. They would be performed in public spaces, the rich could rent out small, roofed theatres but would also be read at dinner parties (cenae) to impress friends. Clients had to listen to their patron"s poetry. Lower class otium, the taberna, taverns which were sneered at by most upper class sources. They were exceedingly popular, there were 9 different words in latin for a pub. Roman name for pubs include the cock and bull" and mercury and apollo", only wine would be served.
