cla219 exam

• Matrona(e)


  A Roman freeborn woman who has contacted a iustum matrimonium under Roman law (or was a widow)
• Stola 


  worn by matronae
• Pudor


  Chastity/Purity
• Pietas


  duty to family and gods
• fides/univira


  loyalty
• Ostrakon


  pottery fragment
• lyrikós


  sung poetry, first person point of view
• roman elegies


  love theme
• greek elegies


  mourning theme
• puella


  muse in roman elegies; mistress, but educated espec in poetry
• Patria Potestas


  Paternal Power: distinctly Roman; men had full legal responsibility for and authority over the family, their manifestation of pietas, or family obligation.
• ius vitae necisque


  "right of life and death” → the leader of a family could condemn to death another member to death
• tutela mulierum


  guardianship over women
• Saeva noverca


  wicked stepmother
• Dux femina 


  commander woman
• obverse 


  front of a coin
• reverse


  back of the coin
• epikleros


  a daughter with no immediate male relatives
• epidikasia


  the process in which an archon decided which male relative had the right to marry an epikleros.
• oikos


  house/household
• twelve tables/tablest


  foundation of roman law
• lex oppia (215 bce)


  prohibited women from owning a certain amount of finery
• hetairai 


  courtesan
• pornai


  (perjorative) whore
• palakidai


  foreign women in relationships with citizens
• toga


  worn by prostitutes
• lupanar


  main brothel in pompeii
• lekythos

  perfume container used in cemeteries
• euregetes

  benefactor
• maia


  midwife
• iatros


  physician
• apotropaion


  a device deployed to turn away malevolent forces
• mustes – epoptes


  experience of loss of sight
• infula


  headdress of the vestal virgins
• vitae


  bands in the hair of vestal virgins