Roman Voices Download


Roman Voices Download

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Carol Clemeau Esler, Author
Roman Voices is a collection of inscriptions, letters, and other writings written by everyday Romans. It’s a wonderful way for students to explore non-literary writing in Latin and get a sense of how ordinary Romans spoke and wrote. This is a revised, expanded, and updated version of the earlier edition of Roman Voices, with many more texts added and the notes and vocabulary updated to reflect current scholarship.
See the support material below for links to images and more information on the readings in this work.
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Roman Voices

Chapter One: WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT AT TRIMALCHIO’ S PARTY

Chapter Two: CURSES, CHARMS, AND ORACLES

Chapter Three: AMPHITHEATER AND RACETRACK

Chapter Four: STREET AND TAVERN

Tavern Signs (IV.11-15)

Tavern Talk (IV.44)

Gambling (Nos. 47, 49-54)

Tavern Frescoes (IV.46-47)

Game Boards (IV.52)

Game-Pieces (IV.55)

“The Reckoning” IV.48

Successus IV.56

Popular songs (IV.58-63)

A Menu

Mule cabs

Chapter Five: POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

General pictures

V.16 (Cucuta graffito)

V.41 (pomari universi for M. Holconius)

V.63 (Asellina’s endorsement of C. Lollius)

Chapter Six: FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Roman wax tablet

Vindolanda

Less colorfully presented pictures of all the Vindolanda letters can be found at Vindolanda Tablets Online (http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/) under the relevant tablet-numbers (those included in Roman Voices are 346, 291, 292, 629, and 164).

Wood tablets (VI.43-47)

Scroll down for this set of four tablets
Vindolanda 310

VI.44 The Vindolanda birthday invitation (Tab. Vindol. 291)

Many views

Slave or dog tag

A Roman dog (or slave) tag from the British Museum.

Papyrus letter (VI.36: Suneros)

Click to enlarge the papyrus image

Ostrakon

Click on last item in list; illustrations are at end of article, which is a pdf. No. 3 is VI.40.

Animals

Dog names — Hunting Dogs (VI.49)
Vincentius and his mouse

This mosaic can be found in the article Jacques Aymard, “A propos de la mosaïque au chat de Volubilis,” Latomus 20 (1961), 52-71. It is available with JSTOR access.
For animal names, the essential source is J. M. C. Toynbee, “Beasts and Their Names in the Roman Empire,” Papers of the British School at Rome 16 (1948), 24-37. The entire article with its many illustrations is available online through JSTOR and is well worth downloading.