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It's bound to be a highly advanced astronomical clock or calendar. Actually, looking at the photo, that's obviously what it is - a suitably ornamental slave stood in the middle, moving around with the sun through the zodiac, pointing to the exact time and the positions of the stars and planets.
 
The Lex Puteolana has been discussed elsewhere, and perhaps the video has also been posted before, but it’s the first time I’ve seen, so here we go.

 
captivecuties said:
I do remember this. Also in Pompeii there is graffiti on a wall stating “May you be nailed to the cross” as an insult to some one.
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More of curse, I gather.

In The West Wing President Bartlet, grieving over the senseless death of someone close to him, curses God in the National Cathedral in extemporaneous Latin. From a Quora article:

Here is a YouTube video with subtitles and a link to a couple of alternative translations. I endorse the translation in the video, except for the last two lines, cruciatus in cruce, eas in cruce, where I go with John Arnold’s translation below: “Having suffered on the cross, may you go [back] upon a cross”. (If this is the intended meaning, the Latin in the last line should actually be eas in crucem).

 
Apostate said:
More of curse, I gather.

In The West Wing President Bartlet, grieving over the senseless death of someone close to him, curses God in the National Cathedral in extemporaneous Latin. From a Quora article:

Here is a YouTube video with subtitles and a link to a couple of alternative translations. I endorse the translation in the video, except for the last two lines, cruciatus in cruce, eas in cruce, where I go with John Arnold’s translation below: “Having suffered on the cross, may you go [back] upon a cross”. (If this is the intended meaning, the Latin in the last line should actually be eas in crucem).

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God, no doubt,being highly educated…
 
Does anyone have any information on the different roles slaves filled in Rome by gender? How many men VS women you'd find in the fields, houses, mines and so on?
 
KageKamen said:
Does anyone have any information on the different roles slaves filled in Rome by gender? How many men VS women you'd find in the fields, houses, mines and so on?
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Based on the form of slavery for which we have documentation, enslavement in the New World, labor was likely assigned by ability, not gender.
It is likely that male slaves in ancient times, just as in more recent ones, would be assigned jobs that required physical strength more often than females. If a female slave were at a Roman mine or quarry, she would be doing support work, rather than wielding a pick or shovel. On the other hand, female slaves would be more likely to be found doing traditional "women's work" such as cooking, cleaning, and raising the master's children.
Agricultural work could be done by both sexes just like cotton fields in the Antebellum South.
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Naraku said:
Based on the form of slavery for which we have documentation, enslavement in the New World, labor was likely assigned by ability, not gender.
It is likely that male slaves in ancient times, just as in more recent ones, would be assigned jobs that required physical strength more often than females. If a female slave were at a Roman mine or quarry, she would be doing support work, rather than wielding a pick or shovel. On the other hand, female slaves would be more likely to be found doing traditional "women's work" such as cooking, cleaning, and raising the master's children.
Agricultural work could be done by both sexes just like cotton fields in the Antebellum South.
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One thing I noted when looking at some Southern plantations was that women often made up a larger portion of the field workers, because men were more likely to know a useful trade. I wondered if this was also true of the ancient world.
 
KageKamen said:
One thing I noted when looking at some Southern plantations was that women often made up a larger portion of the field workers, because men were more likely to know a useful trade. I wondered if this was also true of the ancient world.
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Possibly. Males were more likely to have learned a trade before being enslaved or be taught one afterward. Also, educated slaves were valuable (one big difference between Roman and American slavery). They could be used as bookkeepers, engineers, tutors, etc; and they were more likely to be males as, in most cultures, women did not receive an education.
 
Rias said:
Maybe is costume on gym for training more than bikini cause she had dumbbells in hands :pesas:
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The mosaic is believed to portray women athletes. The "dumbbells" are more likely to be weights used in long jumping.
Modern test have shown that swinging weights in your hands really can increase long jump distance, especially since the ancient version had a very short run up.
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Apparently Romans had two forms of chamber pot - matella for men and scaphium for women - neither of which resembled the "standard" chamber pot image much. Does anyone know more about the differences in their appearance and function?
 
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