As she exemplifies, Roman dominae cauponae, copae, and their waitstaff used gestures, erotic dancing, clothing, hairstyles, and even exotic music in order to create a foreign fantasy for those willing to pay. The Pseudo-Vergilian Copa(“The Female Tavern-Keeper”) for instance, reveals many stereotypes wrapped up in its Syrian inn-keeper and protagonist who, as Berg notes, wore a Syrian mitra. tunics, headbands) of Roman waitstaff, but also hints at their identities. 825 CE (Image via the Vatican Library Online).Īncient literature reveals not only the clothing (e.g. Whenever he drifted down the Tiber to Ostia, or sailed about the Gulf of Baiae, booths were set up at intervals along the banks and shores, fitted out for debauchery, while bartering matrons played the part of inn-keepers and from every hand solicited him to come ashore Illustration of Terence’s Andria with Mysis and Ancilla, Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868, ca. Here is the excerpt from Suetonius’ Life of Nero ( Nero, 27.3):
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Berg notes, “The story of Emperor Nero positioning matrons disguised as copae (female innkeepers), inviting passers-by means of their gestures to enter ad hoc inns constructed along the travel route, suggests that there was a visual code that allowed one to recognize – and cross-dress – these two groups” (2019: 205). Although the article points out there was no one way to dress as an enslaved woman, Roman comedy (and illustrations of Terence and Plautus in manuscripts from the Carolingian period) indicate Roman audiences could tell a person’s status as enslaved or high status based on the clothing they wore on stage. As Berg notes, “As a system of signs, the dress was a boundary marker between different social classes and ethnic groups” (2019: 204). Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in Context“, she identifies women working in Roman bars through dress and appearance. In Berg’s chapter “ Dress, Identity, Cultural Memory. G9fd1R1luj- Pompeii Sites March 29, 2019 Yet more evidence of daily life emerges at #Pompeii, in the form of the discovery of the latest Thermopolium (snack bar), which recently came to light in the excavations of Regio V. His exploration of shops and bars in the Roman Mediterranean mapped Roman retail landscapes down to the very bar counter, while also demonstrating the necessity for comprehensive field surveys that go beyond a singular site (like Pompeii) in order to draw conclusions about Roman commerce and bars. Ellis in person here in Iowa City, the lecture was recorded and posted to YouTube (see below) for students, teachers, and the public to enjoy. Although we were disappointed not to welcome Prof. The topic of Roman bars was on my mind because last week, the Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America welcomed Steven Ellis to speak about his newest book, The Roman Retail Revolution. Written above the heads of this kissing couple from #Pompeii are the words spoken by the man:ĭelightful fresco from the Bar of Salvius and currently in #MuseumWeek #FriendsMW /7myuHs8fmi- Dr Sophie Hay May 19, 2019
In Late Antiquity they were, ipso facto, viewed as prostitutes in the eyes of elite men and the law, as Vanderbilt historian Thomas McGinn has discussed in his article defining “T he Legal Definition of Prostitute in Late Antiquity.” But what is less clear within the elite legal evidence is how color and dress were used within the context of the Roman bar in order to signal status. 4.6.3).Īs these laws suggest, women who worked in bars were cast as lowly and commodified bodies available to be bought (and often abused). It established that unions between elite men and certain types of disreputable women––enslaved women and their daughters, freedwomen and their daughters, daughters of pimps or gladiators, actresses, daughters of actresses, waitresses and their daughters, and even women who sold wares––could not produce legitimate unions with elite men (and thus acquire all the privileges of status, property, and inheritance rights that came with a legal union) ( CTh. In 336 CE, Constantine laid down another law that further clarified the leges Juliae. Their lowly status as an ancilla or ministrameant they were then legally on par with prostitutes as infames ( CTh 9.7.1). On February 3, 326 CE, Constantine issued a legal clarification for Augustus’ Lex Julia de adulteriis, ruling that the wives of tavern owners (here labeled an uxor tabernarii) could be brought up on charges of adultery, but that the the barmaids working within the tavern could not be. One customer shouts “over here!”while another says “no, it’s mine!” The exasperated barmaid replies “whoever wants it should take it. In it, a bar maid holds a jug in one hand and a cup in another.
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