Ostia Genevieve Durigon Christa Younes Document

Ostia Genevieve Durigon & Christa Younes

Document • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) vol XIV no 4, 549 • Pg 111 in Lewis and Reinhold Volume II

horrea • “warehouse” • Right, the Horrea Epagathiana

collegia navilculari • “Association of ship-builders”

Papian-Poppaean Law • Instituted in 9 AD in the time of Augustus and in the consulship of M. Papius Mutilus and Q. Poppaeus Secundus • Bachelorhood was discouraged • Law regulated marriages, dictated who could marry

Privileges of Women with Four Children • Obscure privileges • Included the ability to re-marry after the death of a spouse after only a brief period of mourning • Included taking a larger percentage of an inheritance

Piazzale delle Corporazioni • Forum of the Corporations, adjacent to amphitheater

Piazzale delle Corporazioni • Mosaic design on floor outside of an “office” in the Forum of the Corporations

Portus • Harbour of Portus • Constructed during the time of Trajan • Completely man -made, unlike the natural harbour at Ostia

The End Any questions?

CIL, vol. XIV, no. 4549 in Roman Civilization II: The Empire, ed. Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, New York: Columbia University Press, 19 xx, p. 111. Historia Augusta, Life of Severus Alexander xxxiii. 2; in Roman Civilization II: The Empire, ed. Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, New York: Columbia University. Press, p. 408. IG, vol. XIV, no. 830 lines 1 -19 A. D. 174, in Roman Civilization II: The Empire, ed. Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 110. C. Suetonius, Life of Claudius, in The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, New York: Penguin Books, 1957. Cornelius Tacitus, Annals III in The Complete Works of Tacitus, trans. Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, New York: Random House Inc. , 1942.