Culture - Sources Flashcards
Dinner Parties
PSB: Petronius, Satyricon
calf brought on 200 pound plate
Acrobats from a movable roof/ceiling
Dinner Parties
Letter to Speticius Clarus
Clarus doesn’t turn up to the dinner party, and host demands for him to pay
Dinner Parties
Letter to Avitus
Persona complains to Avitus that she should not drink different, expensive wine to his guests but instead should drink the same wine as them
Dinner Parties
Triclinium in Villa Poppea, in Oplontis
colourful decorative paintings on walls -> grand
Dinner Parties
Vitruvius, on Architecture
explains which direction the summer and winter dining room should face depending on sunlight
Dinner Parties
Ovid Fasti - the feast of Anna Perenna
eventful, people would get drunk and do ridiculous things
Roman Baths
Elderly woman Aventina
Tombstone says she was age 58, from Gaul. Possibly came to Aquae Sulis to be healed
Roman Baths
PSB: Solinus the wonders of the world
‘patron goddess’ ‘sumptous splundour’ = positive > popular
Roman Baths
PSB: Picture of Great Bath
stumps of original columns = roman architecture is advanced
large - popular
Roman Baths
Seneca the Younger letters
gross noises from baths
Roman Villas
Horace Satires - Town and country
Grand villas have both pros + cons - not fro evryone.
‘dyed with bright scarlet’
‘lots of yesterdays dishes’
Roman Villas
Columella, The Villa
How a villa should be - structured, purposeful
Roman Villas
Park Street Villa, Verulaneum
Diagram shows it was large = luxurious
Roman Villas
PSB: Lockley’s Villa 1st building
simple
no individual access to rooms
Roman Villas
PSB: Lockley’s Villa 2nd building
corridor
Roman Villas
PSB: Winged corridor villa
Winged - more privacy
Roman Villas
PSB: Northleigh Courtyard villa
large
corridor all round
Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Carving
shows structure - decorative
many competitors - competitive atmosphere
tiered seating
Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Painting of Charioteer, Ostia
charioteer holding victous palm and wearing crown - competitive
small chariot - importance on charioteer
Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Ovid, Amores
People came to watch charioteer racing for other purposes - to sexualise women
chariot racing was intense
Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
Pliny the Younger
The races are on, a spectacle which has not the slightest attraction to me
Roman Roads
PSB: Map of Roman Britain
Britain was better linked in the North than the south
Good road network
Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
Letter to Calvisius
Talks about the different colours each charioteer would wear and how spectators would support one over the other
The performers at these games were divided into teams, distinguished by the particular colour of their clothes; the principal of which were the white, the red, the blue, and the green. Accordingly the spectators favoured one or the other colour
Juvenal Satires
The roars assail my eardrums
Roman Army
PSB: Vegetius, extract from Epitoma
Training was intense
e.g. practising with a should twice the weight of a real one
Roman Army
PSB: Inscription in Chester
Training was dangerous
People died not just in war, but also when travelling between places (e.g. shipwreck)
Roman Army
PSB: Diagram of Fort
Self - sufficient
Skilled
Roman Army
PSB: Barrack Block in Northumberland
Orderly
Well-built
Roman Army
Vegetius
Roman soldiers should:
have a broad chest and powerful shoulders
be outstanding not only in body but also mind
should not have feminine jobs
were taught not to cut but to thrust with the sword
Roman Britain
PSB: Tacitus, Agricola
Britain is miserable and has bad weather
The British listen to the Romans as long as they don’t take it too far
British feel like they were being treated like slaves
British were seduced by things the Romans gave them
The Theatre at Pompeii
Graffitied bronze stature of Sorex in Pompeii
Actius, our favorite, come back quickly
= popular
The Theatre at Pompeii
CLC
model of clay mask
The Theatre at Pompeii
Juvenal
Describes atmosphere - children horrified of masks and sit on laps of laps of their mothers, screaming
The Theatre at Pompeii
CLC mosaics
Tell storyline of Plautus
The Theatre at Pompeii
PSB: Amphitheatre in Pompeii
Isles to project sound
Smooth walls to protect audience
Circular - all rounded view
The Theatre at Pompeii
PSB: Photo of Colloseum
Huge = popular
Only partially standing
The Theatre at Pompeii
Juvenal Satires
Eppia, the wife of a senator, elopes with a gladiator (disgusting imagery) and ditches her pietas (duty to children, family, gods)
- people would fall in love with the armour and bravery, but no their looks
The Theatre at Pompeii
PSB: Large theatre at Pompeii
Made of brick and stone
Tiers of seats = popular
Roman Roads
Remains of a Roman road at Blackstone Edge, Manchester
Embedded with flat stones
Straight
What is Satire?
Comedy which is partly true
