CLAS 220: A Roman's Day
compiled by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan

Terms and Bibliography for Course Lectures on the Typical Roman Aristocrat's Day.

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Terms

(Those terms marked with an asterisk are of particular importance.)

• Sundials: 263 B.C.
• Waterclocks: Second century B.C.
• *Salutatio
• *Forum
• *Thermae
• *Cena
• *Clientela
  • Patronus
  • Cliens
  • *Sportula (25 asses)
• *Paterfamilias
• Senator (Senex)
• *Mos Maiorum ("The ways of our ancestors" = "custom," "tradition")
• Amici
• *Fides
• Quid pro quo
• *Equites (sg. - Eques)
  • The business class at Rome, who eschewed a career in politics in favor of commerce and high finance
  • Minimum property qualification: 400,000 sestertii

Links to Relevant Sites Elsewhere on the WWW

• A Day in the Life of an Ancient Roman
• Dies (The Day) (excerpt from William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
• Horologium (The Clock) (excerpt from William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)

Bibliography

For a list of journal abbreviations and call numbers, see the
Journals Relating to Classics in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries page.

• Balsdon, J.P.V.D. Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome. London, 1969. (Reprinted: 1974.)
• Braund, D. "Function and Dysfunction: Personal Patronage in Roman Imperialism," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in Ancient Society (New York, 1989) 137-152.
• Cloud, D. "The Client-Patron Relationship: Emblem and Reality in Juvenal's First Book," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in Ancient Society (New York, 1989) 205-218
• Drummond, A. "Early Roman Clientes," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in Ancient Society (New York, 1989) 89-115.
• Garnsey, P., and G. Woolf. "Patronage of the Rural Poor in the Roman World," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in Ancient Society (New York, 1989) 153-170.
• Konstan, D. "Patrons and Friends," CP 90 (1995) 328-342.
• Leunissen, P.M.M. "Conventions of Patronage in Senatorial Careers under the Principate," Chiron 23 (1993) 101-120.
• May, J.M. "Patron and Client, Father and Son in Cicero's Pro Caelio," CJ 90 (1995) 433-441.
• Purcell, N. "Patronage, Non-Literary," in S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Third Edition; Oxford, 1996) 1126.
• Rich, J. "Patronage and Interstate Relations in the Roman Republic," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in Ancient Society (New York, 1989) 117-135.
• Saller, R. "Patronage and Friendship in Early Imperial Rome: Drawing the Distinction," in A. Wallace-Hadrill, ed., Patronage in ancient Society (New York, 1989) 50-062.
• Saller, R.P. Personal Patronage under the Early Empire. Cambridge, 1982.
• Saller, R.P. "Martial on Patronage and Literature," CQ 33 (1983) 246-257.
• Saller, R.P. "Promotion and Patronage in Equestrian Careers," JRS 70 (1980) 44-63.
• Wallace-Hadrill, A., ed. Patronage in Ancient Society. London, 1990.
• White, P. "Aspects of Nonimperial Patronage in the Works of Martial and Statius," HSCP 77 (1977) 258-260.
• White, P. "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny, and the Dispersal of Patronage," HSCP 79 (1977) 265-300.
• Williams, G. "Did Maecenas 'Fall from Favor'? Augustan Literary Patronage," in K.A. Raaflaub and M. Toher, eds., Between Republic and Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (1990) 258-275.
• Woolf, G. "Food, Poverty and Patronage. The Significance of the Epigraphy of the Roman Alimentary Schemes in Early Imperial Italy," PBSR 58 (1990) 197-228.

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