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  • Seven - Negotiation, Violence, and Resistance

  • from II - The Transformation of Peripheral Societies and Landscapes
  • Edited by Bleda S. Düring, Universiteit Leiden, Tesse D. Stek, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes
    Published online:
    04 April 2018
    Print publication:
    29 March 2018, pp 175-205
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Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
  • A Social and Cultural History
  • Christian Laes
  • Published online:
    23 March 2018
    Print publication:
    12 April 2018
  • Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation in the Roman world? Was there a concept of disability? How were the disabled treated? How did they manage in their daily lives? What answers did medical doctors, philosophers and patristic writers give for their problems? This, the first monograph on the subject in English, explores the medical and material contexts for disability in the ancient world, and discusses the chances of survival for those who were born with a handicap. It covers the various sorts of disability: mental problems, blindness, deafness and deaf-muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment, and includes discussions of famous instances of disability from the ancient world, such as the madness of Emperor Caligula, the stuttering of Emperor Claudius and the blindness of Homer.

  • Chapter 6 - Cornelia

  • Matthew B. Roller, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Book:
    Models from the Past in Roman Culture
    Published online:
    21 March 2018
    Print publication:
    22 March 2018, pp 197-232

  • Summary

    Chapter six examines Cornelia “the mother of the Gracchi,” a prominent matron of the second century BCE. Cornelia’s chief monument is her epithet mater Gracchorum, a phrase that pervasively shapes how she is deployed as an exemplum. The “mothering” so spotlighted is manifest in her exemplary pedagogy and rhetorical prowess, as she reared her sons Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus to be great men and orators, as well as in her fortitude when they died and in her conspicuous chastity. Another key monument, a bronze statue with inscribed base, stood in the Portico of Octavia from the early Augustan age. For Augustus deployed Cornelia (represented by her statue and inscription) as an exemplary precedent for his sister Octavia; and made them jointly into exemplary vehicles for the gendered values and behaviors he otherwise promoted. Cornelia also found resonance in Augustan and later consolatory contexts as an exemplary maternal mourner of dead children.

  • Chapter 4 - Gaius Duilius

  • Matthew B. Roller, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Book:
    Models from the Past in Roman Culture
    Published online:
    21 March 2018
    Print publication:
    22 March 2018, pp 134-162

  • Summary

    Chapter four examines Gaius Duilius, a consul and naval commander in 260 credited with winning Rome’s first naval victory, among other “firsts.” A discussion of the events and deeds associated with Duilius, and the associated rhetoric of “firstness,” raises the question of change over time: how, and whether, innovation can occur in an exemplary framework. Duilius also participates in a narrative of moral improvement, constructed by Octavian / Augustus as he sought to ratify his naval victory over Sextus Pompeius in 36 by reference to Duilius’ feat. A broader consideration of moral improvement and decline as models of change over time leads to the question of whether such change can be accommodated within exemplarity, or triggers the emergence of an historicizing perspective. Analysis of a morally contested monument associated with Duilius – his torch-and-flute escort – suggests that Roman observers do not embrace historicizing perspectives given the opportunity, but strive the harder to devise exemplary frameworks that can accommodate anomalous monuments.

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