2. Student Study Book - Cambridge School Classics Project

The following questions refer to Love and Marriage generally, and are intended for individual study followed bydiscussion.1* Consider the different aspects of love as they have appeared in the eleven extracts you have read. Whichaspects of love have appeared in which extracts? In some extracts, you may wish to attribute different typesof love to the two people involved, or to say that a particular individual’s love combines more than one of thelisted types. If you find some of the descriptions below rather vague, interpret them in whatever way is mostconvenient for you.Romantic loveSexual desireLove affair with someone else’s spouseUnsatisfactory married loveBeing in loveFlirtationLove affair with someone unmarriedAffectionSatisfactory married loveOther2* Are there any ways in which you would prefer being married in 1st century Rome to being married in the presentday, and any ways in which you would strongly dislike it? Concentrate on aspects of marriage in particular, noton Roman life generally. You may like to consider the question first from the point of view of your own sex, thenfrom that of the opposite sex.3* The dinner-party from hell. In a nightmare you have invited:CalpurniaCatullusClaudiaLesbiaOvidPlinyPomponiaQuintus Ciceroto dinner. They are placed in the usual three-couch arrangement around a table. As in Cicero, Letter to his friendAtticus, women are allowed at the table, placed alternately with men, as far as this is possible. You yourself,as host(ess), occupy the host’s traditional place, marked as H on the diagram; the guest of honour’s place ismarked GH.GHHBut in your nightmare, something has gone horribly wrong with the seating (or reclining) arrangements, andevery diner (or most diners, including yourself) has been placed between the two most unsuitable next-doorneighbours.Copy the diagram of the three couches and table, adding the name of the person occupying each place. Awardyourself marks based on the number of disastrously-placed people on your diagram.The married couple from Lake Como are unavoidably absent.102 WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage