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- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/04%3A_Witches_Warlocks_and_Magic
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/08%3A_Exile_and_Exiles
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/01%3A_Dress_Posture_and_Self-Presentation%3A_Men/01.2%3A_Criticizing_the_Toga_and_Roman_MasculinityIf it is true, (as it is) that a defect of nature has implanted the will to please in men for the sake of women, just as in women for the sake of men, and if our gender acknowledges that it uses decep...If it is true, (as it is) that a defect of nature has implanted the will to please in men for the sake of women, just as in women for the sake of men, and if our gender acknowledges that it uses deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly its own, such as cutting the beard too sharply or plucking it out here and there; shaving round about the mouth; arranging hair and disguising its greyness by dyes; removing all the hair on the body as it appears; fixing each hair in its place with some womanly pi…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/01%3A_Dress_Posture_and_Self-Presentation%3A_Men/01.3%3A_Behaving_ManlyThe horsemen rode away in a rage, and the sailors, changing their plan again, put in towards the shore; and after casting anchor at the mouth of the Liris, where the river expands into a lake, they ad...The horsemen rode away in a rage, and the sailors, changing their plan again, put in towards the shore; and after casting anchor at the mouth of the Liris, where the river expands into a lake, they advised Marius to leave the vessel, take some food ashore with him, and recruit his strength after his hardships until a good wind for sailing should arise; this usually arose, they said, when the wind from the sea died away and a tolerably strong breeze blew from the marshes.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/11%3A_unRoman_Families_and_Relationships/11.2%3A_Case_study%3A_Fannia_and_Good_Roman_Women[4] For when Senecio, [5] on trial for writing the life of Helvidius, said in his own defence that Fannia had asked him to write it, Mettius Carus [6] asked threateningly whether she had. “I did ask h...[4] For when Senecio, [5] on trial for writing the life of Helvidius, said in his own defence that Fannia had asked him to write it, Mettius Carus [6] asked threateningly whether she had. “I did ask him,” she replied; and to whether she had given him her husband’s diaries – “I did give them.” And to whether her mother knew about this, “She does not.” In other words, she did not utter a single word to reduce the danger to herself.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/03%3A_Entertainers
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/10%3A_Criminals_and_Gangs/10.1%3A_PiratesThe agents of the pirates spied out accordingly a rich cargo which I had on board my ship, and having taken me aside in conversation, asked me what was my share in the freight; and I told them that it...The agents of the pirates spied out accordingly a rich cargo which I had on board my ship, and having taken me aside in conversation, asked me what was my share in the freight; and I told them that it was a thousand drachmas, for there were four people in command of the ship. “And,” said they, “have you a house?” “A wretched hut,” I replied, “on the Island of Pharos, where once upon a time Proteus used to live.” “Would you like then,” they went on, “to acquire a landed estate instead of the sea…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/07%3A_Sex_Workers/07.3%3A_Elites_and_Accusations_of_Sex_WorkI persuaded the father to pay the son’s debts; to release the young man, endowed as he was with great promise of courage and ability, by the sacrifice of part of his family estate; and to use his priv...I persuaded the father to pay the son’s debts; to release the young man, endowed as he was with great promise of courage and ability, by the sacrifice of part of his family estate; and to use his privileges and authority as a father to prohibit him not only from all intimacy with, but from every opportunity of meeting you.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/02%3A_Dress_Posture_and_Self-Presentation%3A_Women/02.1%3A_The_Stola_and_Other_'Female'_Garments4 But some put out their own lights, while others kindle lights that are not theirs […] 4.10 And when the manager of the public toilets fans her silken gown, and comforts with necklaces a neck that is...4 But some put out their own lights, while others kindle lights that are not theirs […] 4.10 And when the manager of the public toilets fans her silken gown, and comforts with necklaces a neck that is less pure than the toilets, and uses bracelets — which, as parts of what was given to brave men, even matrons would indiscreetly have owned — to insert her hands that are guilty of every shameful deed, and fits on her maculate leg a white or reddish shoe, then why do you not look at these garments?
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/01%3A_Dress_Posture_and_Self-Presentation%3A_Men
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/UnRoman_Romans_(McElduff)/04%3A_Witches_Warlocks_and_Magic/04.1%3A_Roman_perceptions_of_magicBut the most surprising thing of all is, that Homer should be totally silent upon this art in his account of the Trojan War, while in his story of the wanderings of Ulysses, [9] so much of the work sh...But the most surprising thing of all is, that Homer should be totally silent upon this art in his account of the Trojan War, while in his story of the wanderings of Ulysses, [9] so much of the work should be taken up with it, that we may justly conclude that the poem is based upon nothing else; if, indeed, we are willing to grant that his accounts of Proteus [10] and of the songs of the Sirens are to be understood in this sense, and that the stories of Circe [11] and of the summoning up of the …
