Vocab - section 3

Question 1

meretrix +

Answer 1

independent women sexually available to men outside her family; prostitute (Cicero equates Clodia to one)

Question 2

infamis -

Answer 2

low status, unmarriageable person, actress, pimp, prostitute

Question 3

puella +

Answer 3

girlfriend; lover (Corinna, Lesbia, Cynthia)

Question 4

domina +

Answer 4

mistress with power over poet (Lesbia)

Question 5

Julian Laws +

Answer 5

Moral legislation introduced in 18 BCE (Julia banished because of it)

Question 6

Latin Love elegy +

Answer 6

new type of poetry that rejects public life (Ovid’s Amores)

Question 7

mima +

Answer 7

mime actress (Lycoris)

Question 8

Amator +

Answer 8

poet-lover (Ovid)

Question 9

Puella Docta -

Answer 9

‘learned’; educated; reads and writes poetry

Question 10

Scripta Puella -

Answer 10

puella are purely poetic fictions

Question 11

Virtus +

Answer 11

virtue (love elegists rejected it)

Question 12

Lupanar -

Answer 12

brothel

Question 13

Lex Oppia +

Answer 13

law that says women can’t be adorned too much (led to women’s protest to repeal the law)

Question 14

Vestal Virgins +

Answer 14

priestesses of Vesta; daughters of the state (Campia Severina, Rhea Silvia)

Question 15

Vesta -

Answer 15

Roman goddess of hearth; linked to purity

Question 16

elegy -

Answer 16

a poem, typically for the dead

Question 17

lupa -

Answer 17

prostitute under control of pimp (leno/lena)

Question 18

culta +

Answer 18

learned, cultured (Love elegists wanted their lovers to have culta)

Question 19

stuprum -

Answer 19

adultery

Question 20

concubina -

Answer 20

long term partner of elite men