Quote Originally Posted by seienchin View Post
Beside the fact that nobody actually knows how romans thought or lived I think its well done
My father who teaches latin disaagrees, because of some things like the promiscuity of the woman, which was severly punished and mostly happened in the local brothels and not like in rome.
Yeah, I agree with Macilrille - early to mid Republic your father's right, but I get the feeling that it became less and less so in the very Late Republic and the early principate (ps. Macilrille, you forgot the most obvious example: Messalina). We have examples of people like Clodia (aka. Lesbia) who never really got punished for their...whoring - although Clodia did get pretty badly chewed out by Cicero. -M