Worlds of Roman Women

by Raia, Ann; Luschnig, Cecelia; Sebesta, Judith Lynn

• ISBN13: 9781585101306
• ISBN10: 1585101303
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Summary

This is a reader on the theme of women in the ancient world for Intermediate Latin students. It contains introductions of each selection, notes, a glossary and an index. A companion website has been designed by the authors to be used in conjunction with the text: http://www.cnr.edu/home/sas/araia/companion.html The transition from adapted texts to original language is a difficult one for all beginning language students, but even more so with Latin students. This reader has material that will encourage the shift from decoding words to critical reading for ideas and appreciation of language and style.

Author Biography

Ann Raia is Professor Emerita of Classics of The College of New Rochelle. Cecelia Luschnig is Professor Emerita from the University of Idaho. Judith Lynn Sebesta is Professor and Chair of the department of History at the University of South Dakota.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
Part 1: The World of Childhood	7	(14)
CLE 1518, Funerary Inscription: a much-loved girl	9	(2)
ILS 5213, Funerary Inscription: Eucharis, actress and singer	11	(2)
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 5.16: Fundanus' daughter	13	(4)
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.12: choosing a Vestal	17	(3)
Gn. Naevius, Fragment from a comedy 74.9: a coquette	20	(1)
Part 2: The World of Learning	21	(16)
Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 4.19: Calpurnia's literary learnings	25	(2)
M. Valerius Martials, Epigrammata 3.69.5--8: poetry read in school	27	(2)
P. Ovidius Naso, Tristia 3.7: Perilla	29	(4)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Divi Augusti 64.2-3: a daughter's training	33	(1)
M. Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.4, 6: eloquent women	33	(2)
M. Junius Juvenalis, Satura 6.434--56: the intellectual woman	35	(1)
Sulpiciae Conquestio lines 7-11: a woman poet succeeds	36	(1)
Part 3: The World of Marriage	37	(24)
M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata 10.35: Calenus' Sulpicia	41	(2)
ILS 8393, Funerary Inscription ``Laudatio Turiae'' (excerpts)	43	(4)
ILS 1221a, b, Funerary Inscription: Aurelia Philematium	47	(2)
ILS 8403, Funerary Inscription: Claudia	49	(1)
C. Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola 6.1, 3: Domitia Decidiana	49	(2)
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.7: three loyal wives	51	(2)
CIL 6.6593, Funerary Inscription: carissima coniunx	53	(1)
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.3.3: Antonia Minor	53	(1)
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.6.5: Porcia	53	(2)
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 7.5: Calpurnia	55	(1)
M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata 11.53: Claudia Rufina	55	(2)
T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi 602-652: the long-suffering Matrona	57	(4)
Part 4: The World of the Family	61	(26)
C. Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola 4.1-4: Julia Procilla	65	(2)
C. Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 28-29 (excerpts): Mater, the first teacher	67	(2)
L. Annaeus Seneca (minor), Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione 14, 16, 19 (excerpts): helvia grieves for her son	69	(4)
Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon 37, 67, 76 (excerpts): Fortunata at dinner	73	(2)
ILS 1046a, Funerary Inscription: Terentia, for her brother	75	(2)
C. Nepos, De Viris Illustribus, frag. 1-2, Cornelia's letters to her son	77	(2)
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae 4.11 (excerpts): Cornelia's farewell to Paullus	79	(4)
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.4, 20: scenes from a Roman marriage	83	(3)
ILS 8394, Funerary Inscription Laudatio Funebris Murdiae (excerpts)	86	(1)
Part 5: The World of the Body	87	(18)
Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina 2, 4 (excerpts): women's medicine	91	(2)
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 28.20-23 (excerpts): the powers of female bodies	93	(2)
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.6.4: Julia's death in childbirth	95	(2)
Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 8.10: Calpurnia's miscarriage	97	(2)
Incertus Auctor, De Sulpicia Elegiae 1: at the festival of Mars	99	(2)
T. Maccius Plautus, Epidicus 221--234: wearing her fortune	101	(2)
T. Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura, 4.1278-87: pretty is as pretty does	103	(1)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 4.44: a Vestal regrets	103	(1)
P. Ovidius Naso, Amores 1.14 (excerpts): the tresses' distress	104	(1)
Part 6: The World of the State	105	(22)
Gaius, Institutiones 1.144-145, 148-150: tutela	109	(2)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.39, 41 (excerpts): Tanaquil	111	(2)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.47-48 (excerpts): Tullia Minor	113	(2)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 39.9-10 (excerpts): Hispala Faeccnia	115	(2)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 2.40: Veturia	117	(2)
P. Ovidius Naso, Fasti 4.293-328, 343--344: Claudia Quinta	119	(4)
C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Catilinae 24-25 (excerpts): Sempronia	123	(2)
C. Cornelius Tacitus, Annales 1.33, 40, 69 (excerpts): Agrippina Maior	125	(2)
Part 7: The World of Work	127	(14)
M. Porcius Cato, De Agricultura 142-3 (excerpts): the vilica	131	(2)
L. Iunius Columella, De Re Rustica 1.8.19: slave mothers	133	(1)
CIL 6.6647, Funerary Inscription: Hygia, the obstetrix	133	(2)
ILS 6373, Funerary Inscription: Naevoleia Tyche, public benefactor	135	(2)
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 35.40.147-8: women painters	137	(1)
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 7.48.158: long stage eareers	137	(2)
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria 38--41, 123-4, 133-44: meretrices	139	(1)
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneis 8.407-415: the homemaker	140	(1)
Part 8: The World of Flirtation	141	(14)
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae 2.23.12-20: the ``new woman''	143	(2)
P. Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria 1.135-162: hunting in the Circus	145	(2)
P. Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria 3 (excerpts): how to get a man	147	(2)
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 3.9: Lydia and her lover	149	(2)
Sulpicia, Elegidia 1-6: she sings of love	151	(4)
List of Women Named in the Readings (Alphabetical)	155	(4)
List of Authors of Text Selections (Alphabetical)	159	(2)
Bibliography	161	(4)
Vocabulary	165