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PUELLA Positive Images: Daughter, Bride, Heroine, Virgin Negative Images: Independent agent, strong, sexual, outspoken Associate Vocabulary: casta, pudica, innocens, virgo, ingenua, libera Transitional stages: Marriage, Death, Vestal Virgin |
CLS 495 Roman Women: Puella, Matrona, Meretrix, Amica
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PUELLA Positive Images: Daughter, Bride, Heroine, Virgin Negative Images: Independent agent, strong, sexual, outspoken Associate Vocabulary: casta, pudica, innocens, virgo, ingenua, libera Transitional stages: Marriage, Death, Vestal Virgin |
Latin Texts
| Testimonials | Funerary and dedicatory inscriptions |
| Daughter | Minicia Fundana (friend’s daughter): Pliny Yr.
Epistulae 5.16 (WRW) Perilla (stepdaughter): Ovid, Tristia 3.7 WRW Erotion (slave): Martial, Epigrammata V. 34 Tullia (daughter): Cicero, Epistulae Ad Familiares 14.9, 4.5, 4.6 |
| Victim (rape, kidnapping, murder) |
Sabine Women: Livy,
AUC 1. 8-13; Ovid, Fasti 3.203-228, Ars
Amatoria I.101-134 Verginia: Livy, AUC 3.44-59 Palaestra: Plautus, Rudens Adelphasium: Plautus, Poenulus Sister of Horatius: Livy, AUC 1.26-28 |
| Bride | Lavinia: Vergil, Aeneid 11.478-83; 12.70-72; Livy,
AUC 1.1-2 Catullus, Carmina 61; 62.57-65 Claudia Rufina: Martial, Epigrammata 11.53 |
| Warrior | Cloelia: Livy,
AUC 2.13; Pliny Elder, Naturales Historiae
34.25; Seneca, Ad Marciam De Consolatione 16.2-3 Camilla: Vergil, Aeneid 11.248-720 |
| Vestal Virgin | Rhea Silvia: Livy, AUC 1.3; Ovid, Amores 3.6.45-82,
Fasti 3.11-52 Postumia: Livy, AUC 4.44 |
| Comedic Stereotypes | Selenium: Plautus, Cistellaria Planesium: Plautus, Curculio Palaestra: Plautus, Rudens Puella: Plautus, Persa Adelphasium, Anterastilis: Plautus, Poenulus Telestis: Plautus, Epidicus |
| Transgressive | Tarpeia: Livy, AUC 1.11; Ovid, Fasti 3.201-228;
Propertius, Elegiae 4.4 Sulpicia, Opera Omnia Scylla: Ovid, Metamorphoses 8. 1-152 Iphis: Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 669-797 |
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