Saturday, November 26, 2005

Rust On Bathtub Drain

ROME


was going to leave out the way how to outwit the wily lover and how to outwit the jealous guardian. A married woman should fear the husband and monitoring of married women must be ensured. This is convenient, this is what's the law, law and decency .

Ovid.
The Art of Loving. PG 128.14.

Adultery has always been a subject of great concern on the part of Roman society and is well reflected in the laws and customs of the time.

Pudicia The issue of women, went far beyond maintaining the good name and honor of the man of the house. The problem for the Romans was much more serious.

At bedtime a woman married to another man, and when she who had the children of the family, what he did, was to mix the blood of his family with another person outside the family worship, polluting the blood and gods of the family. This was an act of grave immodesty that not only affected the morale of women, but the entire family circle, and their gods and private rites.

The punishment violated the woman caught in adultery to death could come at the most extreme cases and old, but usually in the late republic and early imperial period was the repudiation and subsequent divorce . Though sometimes to avoid the loss of a large dowry of honor, some men could pass the slip for good staff. mural painting shows two lovers.

Now, the punishment of the lover caught in the act, was totally in the hands of affected man's imagination.

This, according to Roman custom, was available if so desired, lover of life discovered but normal, to avoid killing the lover released the affront, was to implement a number of possible sexual torture to adultery.

As an example, normal was the man to deliver the prisoner to their slaves so that sexually abused and so never forget what he had done. This punishment was often evaluated by the Romans, as more terrible than death, because the honor of every Roman was closely related to their sexual behavior.

Every free man, reflected his freedom, power and honor through exercising active stance on sex.
In Roman society, did not much matter who is penetrated (male, female) while you were the one penetrated and not the one who was penetrated.
If you were a free man and allowed to penetrate, making the passive position of women in the sexual act, became a sissy, a man without honor, values, virtues and worst of all, no freedom.

Therefore, the Roman law strongly sanctioned those trying to sexually violate children and teens away from both sex and married women. Also why, when a child or young person leaving his house, it was always a slave or a group of them, to protect their modesty.
To prevent abuse, adultery and placate the needs of men, they could use without problem to their own slaves, slaves or prostitutes. These were valued for their contribution to society, to prevent wrong passionate men the object of his passion, looking young and married women free.


celebrity mosaic depicting a Meretrix (Courtesan of the time)

Thursday, November 10, 2005

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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROMAN DESCENT FOR MEN. Chapter 6

Another significant point that graficaría some of the social importance in the daily life of ancient Rome, was addressed tangentially in the last chapter (Chapter 6) HBO's Rome.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DESCENT FOR MEN ROMANS. Sarcofago

picture of a Roman family.


During the course of the fight between Niobe and her sister, Niobe suggests that infertility of Lydia, was the cause for which her husband was unfaithful to her.

This is a very important point in the minds of men of the time, and show how important it was to have children in the Roman world. First

have descendants was an urgent request being made by the Roman state to its citizens, as they did, in turn, other peoples of antiquity.
Having children was a moral obligation of every citizen to Rome. Thus Rome would always have fresh blood for their armies and thus maintain the greatness of the Republic.

The second point would have a more private and religious.

If a man wanted his family and he will continue beyond the time, needed to have a son to continue with family rituals.
In the Roman world, every family had their own personal religion, their personal gods (lares, household gods, manes and genius) who sheltered from home, to all members of your family (even his slaves.) I was just allowed the man make the offerings, sacrifices and rituals to bring family and therefore was of vital necessity to have children for a family Pater, whether social status whatsoever.

Examples of these rituals:

Worship Sacred Fire: The sacred fire was a fire that was always kept lit near the family altar that represented the soul of the family and the patron goddess of the house. If you are consuming this fire also consumed the family.



The sacred fire, always lit in a Roman house.

The ancestor worship: The worship was very important for all Roman.
When Roman died, became Manes family, to which the feed was regularly and remember, or it would become wandering souls, that instead of protecting and helping their families, the attack and bother. Here again only male offspring could perform these rites, and so each man needed to ensure their offspring and thus be remembered, honored and nurtured.

Altar with Penates and Lares of the Roman family. Many

cases, our moral conception would be grotesque, but to them it was normal because of these needs. In the next chapter give some examples.

Therefore, for a Roman would not have seemed strange that Lydia's husband find another woman having a child part. The problem is that before would have repudiated his wife and marry another and not commit adultery.

In the next chapter, give some examples of things that could go to a Roman in search of a son, and the dangers that could run, if you look in the offspring, led him into the arms of a married woman .

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Internaional Colour Chart

HBO ROME ROME

CHAPTER 6:




In this chapter we find three words that represent three different gods, the Romans, and have little to do with the daily life of the Romans.







First : The Furies goddesses.

Niobe's sister, the curse by the goddess fury after learning that her husband is dead and blame this on the Niobe had relationship with her husband.

Who were these goddesses:

They lived in hell (Tartarus) Roman and its mission was to punish the murderers in Rome. There were three sisters and were named Tisiphone, Alecto and Megera.


Second: Goddess Bellona and Juno.

Although Roman society, as many of the societies of antiquity, was a patriarchal society where the highest god was a man, Jupiter. The goddesses had an important interference in the daily life of the Romans.

Bellona Goddess:

For the Romans, was the goddess Bellona War and wife of the god Mars.
When Niobe goodbye to her husband that goes to war and an uncertain future, she it instructs the Bellona, \u200b\u200bto protect him and prevent die in war.

turn, Lucio Niobe entrusts the protection of the goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter, queen of the gods and protector of married women.


Goddess Juno and her husband, the king of the gods, Jupiter = Zeus (Greek)

Third: SON OF DIS:

In this chapter, Marcon Antonio when he knows that the new luck war is having on Pompey, the son called DIS.

Who was this god: DIS?

Dis was the god Dis Pater (Father Rico), but also was associated Pluto, the god of the underworld, the underworld, but also the wealth that can be hidden on the back of the coin.

Sunday, November 6, 2005

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ROME:

I imagine that many of you are seeing in these days the HBO series, Rome.
Well, to all who are following, here you can find some answers to terms, customs, traditions, etc. leaving gods referred to in the series and understand their meanings.

leave with the word that appeared in the fourth chapter

O evocative evocative. This word evoke

an old religious ceremony performed by the Romans for military purposes and could be used for two different purposes.

The first ceremony was used when the Romans were besieging an enemy city and wanted to capture. The Roman priest in the battlefield, performing the ritual of evocative, where they asked the gods that protected the city, to be left to defend and to switch to his side. As a reward they were promised they would be added to their pantheon of gods, to be honored and revered as one of yours.

also this ritual is performed when a former soldier (Most of the rank of Centurion o'ercomest or higher) was called by one of its commanders to return to serve in the ranks of his legions. This will create a kind of spiritual contract between the commanders and the new member of his army, who had a special status and more benefits in return for loyalty to his commander to death. Sal