Objective: Continue readings related to women in Roman society and the theme of Romanization. I will want to see notes and your efforts to respond to the questions below.
EQ: How will you demonstrate what you learned about Roman culture, women and marriage by reading the assigned texts? Did your note-taking create a basis for identifying recurrent themes? help you support your reasoning and observations? Did you read with purpose? Write in a way that demonstrated critical thinking?
Read the inscribed stone funerary relief of Lucius Aurelius Hermia and his wife Aurelia Philematium, two freed slaves of Greek origin, portrayed as Roman citizens. Write a paragraph about your response to the inscription. What is striking to you? Surprises you? What does the tomb tell us about Roman culture and cultural assimilation in the late first century? About marriage? About the financial status of some freed slaves?
Find direct link to British Museum site or go through Google Classroom.
See also translation and longer analysis of inscription, here.
Then read the tomb inscriptions (327, 230, 341-3) in the “Sources for Women in Roman Society” from As the Romans Did (same section in Google Classroom). Make short notes on your responses to what you read. What do you learn that adds to or echoes the tomb of Aurelia Philematium?
Finally read 193-195 (Frontier Life II) and 220-221 (Frontier Life III), and answer questions at the end of each essay.
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