I mentioned below that Prof. Diane Lipsett delivered a wonderful lecture on the conversation currently taking place between New Testament scholars, family historians, social archaeologists and the like. The title of this post is actually the title of en entire semester-long course taught by Prof. Lipsett, so for our, geez, ninety minute session she condensed her focus to Men, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome. With her permission, I am posting my notes from this lecture below, tweaked a little for readability. Prof. Lipsett is interested in studies of gender formation among non-elites as well as elites, those people about whom we know much less because they did not have the resources or clout to commemorate and study themselves, generally speaking. Roman households were much broader than we conceive of in modern terms, with a wide spectrum of people connected by family and employment living under one roof (the terms domus/eikos/ikea capture this idea of an indiscriminate household
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You know, when I wear that shirt I get lots of people looking at my chest--which of course I'm not super excited about--and the design get some interesting comments. Most people wonder what it is ("Wonder Woman! Duh!"), and have mistaken it for Van Halen, Weezer and even World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Thanks for the photos. A link from my blog is forthcoming!