CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fictional World Of The Hunger Games, Aristocracy, Seta

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

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Dependency: slaves had to jump from one person to another to have enough for their everyday life. Strabo: wrote about a woman who gave birth and immediately returned to work because she needed the pay. Clients had to commit themselves to their patrons: required every morning to greet the patron: salutatio = greeting. It was very important for the client to show up for the greeting: patrons gave out sportula = dole; quadrantes = coins that are like pennies. The modern abbreviations am and pm are roman abbreviations for ante meridiem (before the middle of the day) and post meridiem (after the middle of the day) Sundials: lines indicating different hours, and a peg that cast a shadow, indicating the hour. Aristocracy had pleasant lives, with amenities, luxuries, travel. Entertainment was a way for them to feel like they have the same amenities. They only desired panem = bread and circenses = circuses.