Women in Athens and Rome Flashcards
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What did Eppia do with the gladiator?
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Went to Pharos, leaving her husband and children ‘in tears’
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Give a description of three features of the gladiator
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‘Big wart between his nostrils’, a ‘smelly discharge always dripping from his eye’ and a ‘mark where his helmet rubbed him’
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Eppia enjoys
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‘Hauling rough rope’
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What quote from the Eppia source is similar to a description of Clytemnestra
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‘With heart undaunted she braved the waves’
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What seas does EPPIA brave the waves of?
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ADRIATIC AND IONIAN
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Emperor Claudius wife is described as…
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‘Imperial whore’
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Where did the imperial whore prefer
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‘A cheap pad to the royal bed’
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What was the imperial whores disguise?
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‘A blonde wig’
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Who did she take with her to the brothel and what does this link with in another source?
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She takes ‘one female slave’ this can be linked with the ‘maid who knows the man when mistress wants some fun’ from WATT
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why does Eratosthenes ‘let the women have the ground’?
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To ‘sleep with the child so that she could give him the breast and stop him crying’ but really she is giving the breast to ERATOSTHENES
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How did the maid warn the wife that Eratosthenes was downstairs?
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She would ‘pinch the baby on purpose’
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What does Euphiletus hear?
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‘Creaking during the night’
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Who does Eratosthenes’ ex wife send?
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And old hag who tells euphilatus ‘you will discover all’
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What does he say to the maid?
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‘Tell me no lies, speak the whole truth’- the maid who knows the man when mistress wants some fun but spills the beans to master when a good nights work is done
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What are the three punishment for adulterer
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Death on the spot by the man who catches him under the state of the law, radishment, massive fine
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The pillar of the court of Areopagus states….
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Adulterers are worse than rapists because they are to blame for the ‘corruption of wives’
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As told in the Eratosthenes source Rapists are…
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‘Violators deserving of a lesser penalty than seducers’
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The fine for a seducer is…
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Double that of a rapist
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Who does iscomachus meet in the Agora?
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Socrates
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What does Socrates say about Iscomachus’ appearance
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‘You don’t spend your time indoors, nor does your physique look like you do’
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What is iscomachus doing?
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Waiting for some foreigners
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How does iscomachus brag about his wife
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‘My wife is completely capable of running my household affairs’
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Evidence of the patriarchy
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‘Iscomachus son of my father’
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How old was his wife when she first ‘came to him’
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‘Fifteen years old’
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Iscomachus' wife had lived a...
'Protected life'
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What did iscomachus and his wife do after their marriage that shows piety
'Offered a sacrifice and prayed' she 'offered to fulfil many vows to the gods' she was 'attentive to what she was taught'
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Iscomachus describes his wife as..
'Manageable and domesticated'
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What does iscomachus tell his wife to take
'Take the wool and produce clothes'
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In the iscomachus source what does he hope the god will allow
Children to be born
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In the iscomachus source children are described as
'The best allies and supporters in old age'
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What are the four metaphors for iscomachus' wife
'Leader bee', 'captain of the watch', 'council investigating the calvary' 'queen'
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What are some of the regulations iscomachus directed his wife to make
'Nursing of young children' 'not to neglect them' 'nurse' 'stand over the loom' 'keep an eye on the baker' 'moisten and knead the bread'
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What makeup was iscomachus' wife caught wearing
'White lead, thick rouge, high rouge'
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What else does iscomachus praise?
'Her great intelligence' how she 'quickly obeyed'
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How does iscomachus describe their marriage
'Most effective partnership'
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What does iscomachus say about women's bodies
'Good endowed women with a body less able to endure hardships'
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Euphiletus originally describes his wife as
'Economical and exact'
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What does the Cloelia source say in the opening about courage
'Seeing that the romans respected courage women too are inspired to carry out acts of heroism'
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How is the peace treaty kept in the cloelia source'
'With the girls given as hostages'
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how did Cloelia escape?
Eluded The guards and swam the Tiber amidst a rain of enemy Spears'
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In the Cloelia source what is the reaction of the enemy
'his anger turned to admiration' he not merely respected her courage but honoured it'
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How did the romans reward Cloelias courage?
With an equestrian statue erected on the via sacra
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Who does Cloelia choose to send home
'Released the persons at greater risk of harm by the enemy'
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What did The oppian law source say?
'No woman might own more than half an ounce of gold or wear a multi coloured dress nor ride in a carriage in the city'
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What does Cato viciously describe women as being/having
An 'unbridled nature' 'female fury' 'unmastered creature' 'wild animals chafed by their chains'
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What does Cato say about in relation to the 'mans world'
'What is worse they ask for law and votes' and 'snatch at government and meddle in the forum'
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What does Cato say that confirms male fear about women
'They will have become your superior'
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What does Cato say about women's behaviour in public
'Publicly solicit other women's husbands' 'blockaded every street'
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what does Lucius say about the Sabine women
the 'battle was jolted by female intervention'
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What does Lucius say about the women and the law
It 'concerns them directly'
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What evidence does Lucius give that women help the state?
'Did not widows assist the treasury?' 'Widows and children were donating their funds to the treasury'
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How does Lucius argue the women's side?
By saying 'will your horse be more beautifully saddled than your wife' and referring to how slaves appeals are not 'scorned' but they are 'angry when honourable women ask for something'
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What does Lucius say in response to Catos claims about women entering the 'men's world'
In clothes and finery 'they find joy and take pride called the woman's world'
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What does Lucius say to defend the fear about the return of the matriarchy
'They hate the freedom created by widowhood' and 'they prefer to be subject to your judgement'
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How does Lucius insult the men for their treatment of women?
'You should prefer to be called fathers and husbands to masters
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Who does Cicero defend in the Cloelia trial?
Marcus caelius Rufus
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Who does Cicero purposely mistake for Clodias husband?
her brother
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What does Cicero claim Clodia did in the aqueduct he built?
'Provide water for your post incestuous ablutions'
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What is clodia accusing rufus of
Stealing gold and trying to poison her
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What are the three 'insults' clodia gives rufus
'Adulterer, lecher, briber'
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What does Cicero sarcastically call clodia
A 'noble' and notorious' woman
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what does Cicero say that insinuates she has many affairs?
She is 'everybody's friend' and 'gives herself freely to everybody' a 'hussy that lives brazenly'
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Cicero implies her morals are
'Easy going and modern'
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What is the name of the blind man that is a member of her family?
Caecus the blind
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What does Cicero accuse clodia of due to being associated with someone like caelius rufus
Let down her 'male ancestors' and the 'illustrious descendant' Claudia the vestal virgin as a she let herself get influenced but the vices of her brother
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How does Cicero imply clodia is an adulterous whore?
By mention the 'daily treaties with your filthy lovers' and parading with 'other women's husbands'
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What was the pleasure resort that clodia went to called
'Baiae'
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How does Cicero accuse clodia of being a cougar and pervert?
'You a fine lady want to hold a young man tight with your wealth' and 'you have a garden on the Tiber and you were very careful to put it where the young people bathe'
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What was the bad omen in the Turia source
Both her parents were 'murdered together'
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How is turia a good daughter
She performs her 'filial duty' by the 'pursuit of justice'
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How is turia good to her female relatives?
Shared her inheritance with her sister 'brought up her female relations' and 'prepared marriage portions' for them
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What does turia do for her husband when he is in exile?
'Took all the gold and jewellery from her body' and sent it to him in silence, he was 'saved by her good advice' 'prepared a safe hiding place for him
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What quote conveys turias stoicism?
'Your body was full of bruises, your spirit was unbroken' after being beaten by Lepidus
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How was she loyal and faithful to her husband?
'Utterly faithful' to him 'grieved over his childlessness'
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What did turia offer to do?
'Proposed a divorce' and 'offered to yield their house to another woman's fertility' providing a wife who was 'worth and suitable'
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What is minicia Marcella as wise as
'As wise as an old woman'
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Who does minicia Marcella love?
'Loved her nurses and pedagogues and teachers'
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How did minicia Marcella suffer her illness?
'With sobriety, patience and constancy'
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how was she like her Father?
She was like him in 'manner as in physical appearance and copied her father in everything with marvellous similarity'
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What were the husbands attitudes towards their wives in Lucretia
'Each one praised his own'
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How does Lucretia add to the wealth of the house?
'Working at her wool by lamplight' with her maidservants showing chastity and modesty
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How do we know sextus Tarquinius has bad intentions towards Lucretia?
He is 'inflamed by lust' and already 'seething with passion'
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What is Lucretia husbands name?
Collatinus
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What did sextus Tarquinius in the Lucretia source become obsessed with?
'The idea of raping her'
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What weapon does sextus threaten and pin down Lucretia with
His drawn sword
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How did sextus try to persuade Lucretia?
With 'entreaties with threat' 'death was having no effect, he tried that of dishonour'
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How would sextus Tarquinius destroy Lucretia honour?
He said that nest to her 'dead body he would place the corpse of a slave with his throat cut' by doing this it would make it seem like 'she had been killed in the act of adultery'
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Sextus Tarquinius triumphed over lucretias...
'Tenacious chastity'
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Where were lucretias husband and father when she sent a message to them.
In Ardea
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What was lucretias fathers name?
Spurius Lucretius, who came with publius Valerie's son of volesus
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What does Lucretia say about her mind and body,
'My body was violated, my mind is innocent'
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How does Lucretia kill her self?
'She took a dagger she had hidden in her clothes, plunged it into her heart and fell forward dead'
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Who is Thalassius?
and ancient roman senator in the day of Romulus
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In the Sabine women source who are the most beautiful women reserved for?
'Senators' they were escorted to the sentators houses by plebeians
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How did Romulus blame the victim in the Sabine women source?
He said 'this wouldn't have happened with their fathers hadn't been so inflexible'
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How does Romulus try to convince the Sabine women to 'cool their anger and give their hearts to the men who had already taken their bodies'
He says they now have 'the status of wives' and the 'civil rights of citizenship' as well as children 'of which there is nothing dearer'
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How do we know cirons daughters marriage was legitimate?
They gave a public 'marriage banquet to the phratry' none of the 'members of the phratry objected or doubted' her legitimacy
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'How does Pliny describe Calpurnia Hispulla?
'A model of devotion'
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How did Calpurnia Hispulla feel about her brother?
'She loved her wonderful brother with tenderness, and loved his daughter as if she were his own'
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What does Calpurnia do that shows her love for Pliny?
Made her take up for books, 'she reads and rereads my writings and even memorises them'
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How do we know Pliny is older than his wife?
He says 'it's not my youth or body she loves-they are gradually declining-but my glory'
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what does Juvenal say Cornelia has?
'Snobs'
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What does the mother in law in the Juvenal have hiding in the cupboard?
'Her lover, impatient at the delay, waiting in silence stretching his foreskin'
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Who is Eppia the wife of?
A senator
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What had eppia since stopped worrying about
Her reputation
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According to Juvenal what cause women to be illicit
'Courageous spirit in affairs'
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What did the gladiator do?
'Start shaving his neck?'
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What feature of the Sabine women does Juvenal mock?
'Dishevelled hair'
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According to Juvenal what does a dirty old lady bring up?
'A dirty little girl'
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In Juvenal how does a woman deny her sex?
'A woman who wears a helmet' 'mans strength'
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According to Juvenal what do men get so little of?
'Pleasure'
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In Juvenal what burns?
'Their delicacies' due to the 'muslin' and 'netting'
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How is the female gladiator masculine?
'Laugh when they put their armour aside to pick up her chamber pot'
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What does poverty do to women?
''Chaste' 'hard working' 'hands calloused'
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What does Venus do that shows her alcoholism
'With undiluted wine she drinks her conch shell cup dry'
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What aphrodisiac does Venus consume?
'Big oysters at midnight'
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According to Juvenal what is even worse than an alcoholic Venus?
An educated woman that recites Virgil
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According to Juvenal what does an educated woman's 'avanlanche of words' sound like?
'Pans and bells being beaten'
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How does an educated women appear masculine, as claimed by Juvenal?
She 'shortens her tunic up to her knees' and 'goes to the penny bath with the philosophers'
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What proves Juvenal male vanity?
'Never breaks the rules or principles of grammar', 'quotes verses I've never heard of'
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According to Juvenal what do the women do to prevent childbirth?
'She can produce drugs that make her sterile or induce her to kill human beings in her womb'
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What is the name of the women that brings up young prostitutes?
Nicrete who 'reaped profit from youth'
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Who doesn't bring the prostitutes home out of respect for their wife and mother?
Lysias
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Where did naera 'work openly' as. Famous prostitute?
Corinth
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Who two owned naera and what did they do?
Timanoridas and eucrates 'made use of her'
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What did the two men do after they were done with Naera?
Sold her freedom for 20 minas and said she had to leave Athens
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Where did naera move after being sold her freedom?
She moved to Athens where she met Phrynion
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What did phrynion enjoy doing
'Made love to her openly'
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What did Phrynion do when he found out naera had 'made love to many men' in Chabrias?
He treated her with 'outrageous brutality'
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How did the the sisters Helvidiae die?
'They both died giving birth to daughters' 'such fine girls felled by their own fertility'
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Who does Pliny continue to be devoted in the helvidiae source?
Devoted to 'their late father' as now 'only one of his three children survives'
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what does Pliny say about the only member of the family in the helvidiae source?
'That fortune makes him as good as his father and grandfather'
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Who does Fannia take care of?
'Takes care of junia' a vestal virgin 'on her own initiative
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How did Fannia serve her husband?
'Followed her husband into exile twice' 'did not utter a single word to reduce the danger to herself'
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What quote shows fannias stoicism?
'Her spirit is unbroken'
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How does Pliny talk about Fannia and her mother?
He says 'I honoured and loved both' they did not show jealously as he about who he loved more 'nor did they want me to decide'
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Who can draw an example from Fannia?
Men say they can 'later show to our wives' Fannia and 'men too can draw an example'
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How does arria protect her husband from grief?
'Arria took care of the funeral signify her husband even knowing of the death'
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How would arria prevent her husband from discovering the death of their son?
'She pretended that their son was alive and improving' and she would 'pull herself together and go back with a calm expression on her face'
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How does arria help her husband when he gets taken prisoner?
She begged them to let her come along and do the slaves jobs herself, when they refused she 'followed behind the huge ship in a tiny fishing boat'
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How does arria give her husband courage in his death?
'She plunged the dagger into her breast' and said 'See Paetus it doesn't hurt'
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What does arria say when her son in law Thrasea asks her if she would let her daughter kill herself to Be with her husband in the same way?
'I would if she lived as long and happily with you as I have with Paetus'
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How does Arria show she is determined to die a noble death?
She ran into a wall 'banged her head and fell down unconscious'
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How does Murdia treat her children
She has nothing but 'affection for her children'.
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How does murdia prove she is frugal and efficient with money?
She 'bequeathed certain property' to her husband and gave 'equal distribution to each child' of her inheritance
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Murdia performed...
'Good deeds that deserved a fine reputation'
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List Murdias qualities
'Modesty, propriety, chastity, industry'
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Where does naera run to after being treated badly by Phrynion and who becomes her protector?
Runs away to MEGARA where Stephanus becomes her lover and 'protector'
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How did Stephanus and naera gain money together?
He helped her 'blackmail' strangers, they would pretend Stephanus had caught them in the act of adultery with his wife and would extract money from the victim
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What was Phrynions law suit against Stephanus?
She could be free as 'her own mistress' but return the good she had take to Phrynion, or spend when the same number of days with both of them
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What did Stephanus do with naeras daughter phano?
Gave her to an Athenian citizen, phrastor 'ignoring legitimacy laws'
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What did phano do that phrastor didn't agree with?
'Hankered after her mothers dissolute ways' and 'was not well behaved if willing to be guided by him'
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What did phano lie about in particular?
Lied about being a 'free born' Athenian citizen and he had been 'outrageously treated and swindled'
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What is the law about marriage to an alien woman?
'He shall be deprived of his citizen status' and his 'property confiscated'
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What happens to phrastor after he falls ill?
As he is childless he is 'seduced' by naera and phano who nurse him
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How is phrastor persuaded to take back his child as a 'legitimate son and what happens?
He doesn't want his relatives getting his property and doesn't want to die childless, however the phratry refuse to register his son
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Who did phano marry?
Theogenes who had been chosen as king archon
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What did phano have to do as the wife of theogenes?
Perform 'secret sacrifices for the safety of the state', 'looked upon mysteries' but had no right as an alien
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What did phano symbolically become?
'Bride of Dionysis'
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What oath did phano swear?
To remain 'pure' and 'practise chastity'
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For lying phano should've been..
'Debarred from all public occasions in Athens'
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In the phano source, the law decrees that an adulterer is...
'Forbidden to attend any of the public sacrifices' if she breaks this she can suffer 'impunity and punishment short of death'
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Apollodorus claims that women need to be...
'Terrified' and 'compelled' to 'carry out their duties at home'
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What must a man do to his adulterer wife?
Divorce her
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According to apollodorus why mustn't mean be 'lax and easygoing'
As this attitude could've seen as 'sympathy with this women's way in life'
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According to apollodorus who will be supreme?
Harlots
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According to apollodorus what profession will spread?
'The profession of prostitutes will spread to the daughters of citizens' and those who are 'prestige'
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Why is the vote important according to apollodorus
To vote in 'defence' to prevent respectable women from 'Acquiring the same standing as prostitutes'
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According to apollodorus how are daughters judged?
judged by physical appearance and attractiveness, an appropriate dowry is given
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According to apollodorus what is the role for certain women?
Heterae we keep for pleasure, concubines for daily attendance,but wives for the procreation of legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of the household'
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What is the agathon reference in WATT?
'Not that big, strong, dark fellow' ironic because he's the opposite
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Reference to anal sex in the opening of WATT to agathon
'Yet you've buggered him'
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What day of the thesmophoria is WATT set in?
The middle day
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What are the women in WATT plotting?
'They're going to debate my down fall'
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Phallic jokes in WATT
'Where's your prick?' 'With his protuberance' 'keep your todger out of the way'
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What did Euripides do that angered the women in the first place?
They are condemning him for 'slandering them'
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What does agathon snatch away?
'Their female sexual rights by poaching their nocturnal business'
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What does the dress that mnesilochus smell of?
'Cheesy pudendum'
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Who does Euripides swear by that's lazy and disrespectful?
Ether
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How do the women show poet in the opening?
Make 'offerings before the altar' and the chorus leaders pray
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Who do they want to punish in WATT
'Those who threaten the female community', the 'barman and barmaid that serve a short measure'
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What do the men call the women in WATT?
'Bad eggs', 'cheats', 'gossips'
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What quotation from WATT show the pressure for women to procreate
'She's got to produce one from somewhere hasn't she'
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What have the husbands in WATT started doing because they're suspicious?
'They've started putting bolts on the women's quarters'
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What does the second woman do that shows she's good?
'Five children' fertile and good mother, sells 'myrtle Chaplets' to provide for her children
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What does mnesilochus say that implies women are oversexed whores?
'I'd been married just three days' and then he got seduced, he 'did me from behind at the altar of the apollo'
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How does mnesilochus voice the pressure to procreate?
'Find a baby and brought it home in a jar' with its 'mouth bunged with beeswax'
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What do the women threaten to do to Mnesilochus for speaking so outrageously
'Pluck and singe him'
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How does Euripides rescue M?
Distracts the Scythian policeman with a dancing girl, making a deal with the women to stop slandering them and dresses up as an old woman
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How did mnesilochus get into a 'hopeless plight'?
Exposing the women with his alleged slanders, spoke in Euripides defence, uncovered his disguise
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What three things do they parody in WATT
'Palamedes, parody of helen, andromeda
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How do the women show that mnesilochus' claims aren't entirely false?
'A woman can't do thing she used to do in the old days' and lovers have been 'scared off'
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How do the women react to mnesilochus' speech?
'Shocked, amazed, distressed', 'to say those things in public'
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What are examples of murderous women In WATT
'The woman who killed her husband with an axe' 'gave her husband a drug that made him mad', buried her father under the water tank
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Who questions mnesilochus about his identity
Cleisthenes'
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What proves women are ever thirsting after booze?
Micas baby that is actually a 'full skin of wine'
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What quotes show the women aren't that bad in WATT
'Why do you marry us when we are so bad?' 'Women bear sons' 'anyone brave and great'
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Who else is as corrupt as the women in WATT?
Politicians with 'pockets distended' 'gluttons, thieves and criminals' men 'peep and peer, snigger and leer'
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How do the women show respect for the gods in the end of WATT?
Blessing and prayers for the safety of the state, 'fasting' 'whirling dances' to 'gladden them'
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What does 'helen' say about the citizens in WATT?
'I'll use this brand new helen' 'brings relief to dark clogged citizens'
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What does the Scythian say about the echo?
Chiky beetch' 'dat bloody woman, she talk too much'
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How does the dancing girl dance?
Like a 'flea on the back of a sheep'
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what does the Scythian say about the boobs 😴😤🙄
'She have very nice titties' like 'Lil turnips' 😑😒
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What does Calpurnia only find solace in?
Holding plinys books
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What do Calpurnias letters contain?
'So much sweetness'
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What does Pliny say to his wife that is rare
'I love you'
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What happens to Pliny during the night and day?
'Stay awake conjuring up' her image and his 'feet literally Cary him' to his rooms
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What is the name of Calpurnias grandfather?
'Calpurnias fabatus
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What excuse does Pliny the younger give for the miscarriage?
She is young and inexperienced and did not realise she was pregnant therefore didn't take proper care of herself
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Why should Calpurnias grandfather thank the gods
They preserved his granddaughter and they now know she is capable of conceiving
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What does Pliny believe love is a sign of within his wife?
A sign of chastity
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What does Calpurnia do when Pliny is in court?
She gets messengers to tell her how the case is going
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What happens when Pliny reads his work out loud?
she 'sits discreetly behind a curtain and soaks up his praise'
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what music does Calpurnia enjoy?
'Accompanies herself on the lyre and sings his verses'
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Where did Calpurnia go for her health?
campania
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How does Pliny want Calpurnias health to improve?
Get stronger and 'putting on some weight' enjoying the pleasures of her retreat
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How does Pliny feel about his wife's retreat?
'Uncertainty' 'worry' her 'absence frightens him'
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What does Pliny say will ease his anxiety?
'Write to me once a day or twice even'
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How long do the vestal virgins work for
Thirty years
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What are the decades for vestal virgins?
First decade: learn their duties
Second decade: perform duties
Third decade: teach others
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What happened to those virgins that did marry?
'They were afflicted by regret and depression'
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What honours does numa give the virgins?
'Make a will during their fathers lifetime and conduct business affairs without a guardian' like mothers of 3 kids
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What happens a if. Criminal runs into a virgin in her lictor
They get spared
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What happens to someone who goes under a virgins lictor
They get put to death
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Who is the prosecutor in the poisoning trial?
The deceaseds' son
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Who is the defendant in the poisoning trial?
He deceaseds second wife
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In the poisoning trial what is the son doing?
'Seeking vengeance on his fathers murderers'
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How many times had the wife been caught plotting murder in the poisoning trial
Several times
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Who was philoneus in the poisoning trial?
'Honest respectable man' friend of his fathers
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What was philoneus intending to do with his concubine?
'Dispose of her to a brothel'
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In the poisoning trial what did the step mother say to the concubine to persuade her?
'She was being wrongly treated 'she could restore' philoneus love for the concubine and his fathers love for herself
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Where did philoneus have to go for a ceremony to zeus?
To Piraeus
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Where was his father in poisoning trial preparing to go?
Naxos
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When does the concubine administer the drug in the poisoning trial?
after dinner
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In the poisoning trial what is the stepmother called
'This Clytemnestra'
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What did the concubine serve the poison in?
'The wine'
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How long did it take for his father to die in the poisoning trial?
Three weeks
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How did he concubine die?
she was 'handed over to the public executioner' after being 'broken on the wheel'
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What should the stepmother be destroyed by m?
Justice
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Phanos marriage to theogenes was a...
'Political deal'
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phrastor divorced phano without...
'Returning the dowry'
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Where is Eratosthenes from?
OEA
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What evidence rushed back to euphilatus?
'She had done her face up with cosmetics in spite of the fact that her brother had died the month before'
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What are the punishments for the maid in eratosthenes source?
Flogging and treadmill
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Where did Eratosthenes first approach the wife?
After a funeral, and then his wife went to a religious service with the adulterers mother
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How did euphilatus catch his wife in the act?
With the help of the maid they 'forced the bedroom door open saw him still lying beside' his wife
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How does euphilatus justify killing Eratosthenes?
'Breaking into my house' 'committing a great crime against my children and wife'
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Who did Turia beat off?
Milo
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What did Lepidus get branded for
His 'insolent cruelty'
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What does turias husband praise Caesar for
His 'clemency', kindness, restoration of political order, resorting his citizenship
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What is Cornelias sons names?
Tiberius and gaius gracchus'
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Who was cornelias father
Scipio Africanus, who fought Hannibal
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How did Tiberius die?
'Caught a pair of snakes on his bed' soothsayer said that if he killed the male snake he would die
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What did Cornelia prove after Tiberius die?
'Sensible and motherly and generous'
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Who did Cornelia refuse?
Ptolemy, king of Egypt
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how did Cornelia handle her misfortunes?
'Nobly and magnanimously'
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What did she give her sons after they died
'Worthy tombs'
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What did Cornelia enjoy discussing?
The 'life's and habits' of her father
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how did she celebrate her sons?
She was never 'weeping about their sufferings' she would tell stories as if they were 'ancient heroes of rome'
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How did Cornelia help people in times of sorrow?
With her 'nobility' 'good birth' and 'education'
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What does cornelia not want gaius to seek
'The tribunate'
