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Observacions i context

1- Observations

Viria Acte's past as a slave gives us the opportunity to study the working conditions of slaves. On this occasion, we will use a fictional slave dedicated to cooking in a Roman tavern. This activity represents only a brief introduction to food-related vocabulary and other everyday terms. It is also a first approach to the Latin lexicon and its derivatives and, therefore, to etymology.
 
It has been attributed to the 1st ESO Classical Culture course because of its simplicity and introductory nature. The interesting thing about this activity is to be able to relate Latin etymologies with their corresponding derivatives and to study their evolution in our language. The activity could also be implemented in other courses of Classical Culture, in the Block on the preservation of classical languages. Language.

2- Context

One of the key factors which led to the greater independence of Roman women in the Imperial period was their ability to own and manage their own money. 

The epigraphy of Roman Hispania in the 2nd century offers numerous examples of professions carried out by women who were also, in some cases, owners of their own businesses. To cite just a few names, we can find wet nurses (nutrices), such as Secundilla (Gades) or Clovatia Irena (Emerita Augusta); hairdressers (ornatrices), such as Philtates (Lucus Augusti, Lugo) or Turpa Thyce (Gades); menders (sarcinatrices), such as Latinia Da[.... ] (Corduba); professionals related to the production, dissemination and trade of olive oil, especially in Baetica, such as Accilia Felicissima, Caecilia Charitosa, Cornelia Placida or Caecilia Trophime, among many others; owners of land in production, such as C. Plancia Romana (Fiñana, Almería) or Aurelia Iuventiana (Arauzo de Torre, Burgos); owners of artisan workshops of all kinds _from gilding, textile and footwear workshops to the manufacture of marble pieces, like our Viria Acte _, such as Aurelia Vivia Sabina (domina fabricae marmorariae) (Terena, Portugal), Cornelia Cruseidis (domina inauratoris) (Tarraco) or Valeria Severina, who was also patroness of the guild, (domina fabricae textilis et calceamenti) (Segisama Iulia, Burgos) to women who practised medicine and obstetrics, such as the Hispanic Julia Saturnina (Emerita Augusta) or later women, such as those belonging to other times and places, Primila, Empiria and Venuleya Sosis, qualified as medici; Salustia Ateneis, obstetrix; Naevia Clara, medicaphilologa or Aurelia Alexandra Zozima, cited ‘for her medical knowledge’.

We also find other professions: caementarius (bricklayer): Iulia (Conimbriga, Coimbra); purpuraria (manufacture of purple): Baebia Veneria (Gades); lintearia (weaver or linen merchant): Fulvia (Tarraco); pictor or pistor (painter or baker): Caecilia M [...] (Maresme, Barcino), etc.

Descripció

We look at some aspects of Food in Roman times by reading a text through which we " dinner” at the house of Domitia, Viria's mistress. We ask the students link Latin terms related to Roman food with terms in our language that are derived from those terms. Then, they must name other terms of Latin origin in their mother tongue.

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