In the article Vibia Perpetua’s Diary: A Women’s Writing in A Roman Text of Its Own” written by Melissa C. Perez, and “Perpetua" by Joyce Salisbury, have distinct ways of getting their point arcossed both achieve to get the message of “Saint Perpetua, who was martyred in Carthage in 203 CE, is known for the diary she kept while imprisoned by the Romans” (Salisbury).Both Perez and Salisbury do an overview of the story of the Perpetua. Salisbury article is a shorter overview of the main point of Perpetua. Why, Perez article gets all the meat behind the “challenges this convention as it concerns the social history of Rome through the exploration of a written source by a woman” in an unpopular time for both women and Christianity.
Both articles open up with a brief overview how in the city of Carthage we come across a Roman woman by the name of Vibia Perpetua and her accounts of the events are the first surviving Christian documents of the martyrs. This document consists of two unknown narrators, as well as, Perpetua’s personal narrative, and last the section in which it describes the death of her and her fellow martyrs. What is a martyr you may ask? A martyr is someone who is willing to suffer or die for their religious beliefs. Perpetua was a Roman Citizen of Carthage; she was a 20 year old married woman with a new born. This document was written in the third century during the persecution of the Christians. Christianity gradually expanded amongst the Roman citizens and because it was a monotheistic religion they did not believe in sacrifices to the Gods and/or to the Emperor. The Roman emperor Septimius Severus decided “to stop the spread of Judaism and Christianity ca. 202, so he passed a law forbidding anyone to convert to either...
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...e Perez I feel like they how little bias towards the Vibia Perpetua diaries. Both articles use evidence to hold up the argument around the Perpetua topic with the facts from the prime source, scholarly journals and professors.
All in all, Christians had it tough especially for a newly converted Christian. Being able to practice your religion without being mistreated has come a long way. From having to give up everything you loved: family, country, friends, just so you can die as martyrdom really meant a lot to them. To all the Christians that died in the arena they represented a stepping stone to all those future Christian that would follow in their footsteps. Having this first-hand account of what Perpetua and her fellow martyrs had to endure allowed for current Christians from that era with a sense of pride and joyfulness knowing that their death was not in vain.
The story is told in the first person and it seems to be reasonable, because the author tells his own story. Although, he is very careful, while talking about the facts, because even the fact of the existence of this book exposes him to danger. Because the content of it, revels the reality of life in Mexico, including the life of criminals, and the way they influence the life and career of the author and the ordinary people. The story is gripping, and it simultaneously appeals to both: ethos and pathos. At the same time the author seems to be worth believing, because, on one hand, he worked for Dallas Morning News, and got...
In this analysis, an examination will be provided on how sources from Pompeii and Herculaneum can be interpreted to make known the role and status that women of first century AD possessed. Specifically, reference will be made to the Fresco from the triclinium of the Villa of the Mysteries, Inscription of the Eumachia Building and the tablets of Poppaea Note. Nevertheless, prior to analysing the evidence that these sources reveal; it should be noted that the women of Pompeii are not to be placed in a homogenous grouping. This is a result of the diversified roles and status that women occupied in Pompeii and Herculaneum. To provide a comprehensive analysis of the roles and status women possessed, the report will be categorised into a domestic, professional and slave context; to ensure the dichotomy in the grouping of women is made explicit.
Iliana Roman was a self-made woman. She wrote the essay “First Job”. She was a young single mother when she started working. She tells us how she valued hard work, of how she used work experience as a way of education. She then went to cosmetology school to learn fashion. Afterwards she used past experiences -from both work and school- to open her own hair salon. She now is planning on going back to school for real-estate, and she sees herself as a role model to her sons and the young girls living around her.
Essay on Woman Leader Machiavelli and Castiglione both present the epitome of perfection in their topics of leadership and the way women should be, respectively. In the case of Castiglione's work, it is stated by signor Gaspare that ".in the way people sometimes hanker after things that are impossible and miraculous, rather than explain them you (Magnifico) have wished them into existence." This quote is true of both excerpts. Both have created idealisms that are of perfection; however, both do also allow for imperfection. Again in the excerpt from Castiglione's work where Magnifico states ".because man is more robust, more quickly agile and more able to endure toil." shows the obvious imperfections of the female gender. Machiavelli, on the topic of leadership, also talks of imperfections: "The new prince - above all other princes - cannot escape being called cruel, since new governments are in danger." Leaders therefore are left to the mercy of their own imperfections and the imperfections of the human spirit.
2. Procopius starts this document stating that Theodora is nothing more than a prostitute. He goes on to say that she was not of class or had any dignity, because she would perform on stage almost completely nude. Procopius portrays her as someone who is ruthless and will do whatever she needs to do to accomplish her goals. Justinian would fall in love with her, but was not allowed to marry her because of his social status, because
For my paper, id like to analyze passages from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies and The Coast of Pearls, Paria, and the Island of Trinidad by Bartolomè De Las Casas. My paper will, in more detail explain the different types of rhetoric used by De Las Casas in his narratives, and how he crafted his work in order to persuade his audience to ban slavery during the 16th century. For example, de Las Casas illustrates a very graphic and grim reality about the harsh punishment and the tortures that the Spanish would do to the Native Americans. The Spanish would “cut open pregnant woman, slam babies against rocks, and would even burn the natives alive.” Such heartless and cruel action where committed that it led to the natives
The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity The document, “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity,” shows just how mighty and fearless the faith of the martyrs were in Rome around 203 A.D. in which our story takes place. During the rule of Diocletian, Christianity was not the religion of popular belief. Many of Romans practiced polytheism. As a result, numerous Christian believers were persecuted for their divine faith in God.
Even quite exaggerated stories about him had a characteristic stamp” (124). Beginning (Interrogation) • Andreas, son of John, was in Jerusalem when an outbreak occurred. Andreas had come up from Sepphoris in Galilee for Pentecost to visit an old friend, Barabbas, when he noticed Roman soldiers dressed as normal citizens; they had then pulled out their clubs and started hitting people during the demonstration. The demonstration was for Pilate, and Andreas just happened to get into the middle of all the action. “The demonstration was because Pilate wanted to take money from the temple treasury to build a new aqueduct for Jerusalem” (4).
who would do anything for the children and the Medici families. They were loving wives as well, but supported their husbands in different ways. Lucrezia supported her husband politically, because he was ill and unable to govern to his full potential sometimes (Young, 107). In comparison to Contessina, who supported her husband emotional, by pleasing him with her house management skills. Their letters clearly illustrate their different personalities, and help historians and readers get a good sense of the change in women emerging in the renaissance.
Thiebaux, in her book, appear to explain the events involving women but on a more religious matter. The first chapter in Thiebaux’s book discusses a woman named Vibia Perpetua. She is another woman from our past whose actions on being subjective based on religion, not only leads to her death but also spread inspiration and encouragement to the minds of other women. For example, her and four other women were considered martyrs, but Thiebaux called them “the first heroes of Christianity” (Thiebaux 4). From what I read about Perpetua, and the sections from within the chapter, they basically explain how she lived with her life which leads to her death. She and her friends were sentenced to death based upon their faith in Christianity, though Perpetua had a chance to save herself but she chose to remain faithful; “refusing to worship the Emperor and honor the religion of the Roman state” (4). Roman religion and its emperor had a law to ban Christianity but her faith in her religion led Perpetua and her companions to be executed. Her death was by the hand and sword of a gladiator, all because she chose to remain faithful to her religion.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s, The Myth of the Latin Woman, I believe she is reliable and that she is not fabricating or over-exaggerating her experiences in her memoir because she is writer, autobiographer, poet, and etc. This will give people the counter claim that because she is a writer she is going to fabricate a story, however, I do not agree with that. My first reason why I don’t agree with that is because everything she spoke happens to many races and women either people are to ignorant to realize that this happens to minorities in the US or have never experienced for themselves. Her story shines a vast light on the stereotypes Latin women and women in general have experienced.
Women in Ancient Rome In Roman times women were treated differently depending on their class, and family background. However Roman women off all social classes were expected to assume, that they were merely possessions of their fathers and then of their husband. Many Romans told a story (below) about a woman named Cornelia, a Roman woman of the second century BC: An upper-class women from Campania was staying with Cornelia, a mother of the Gracchi brothers. She continually boasted about her jewels which were the most beautiful to be seen at that time, Cornelia kept her talking until her children returned home from their lessons, then she said to the women: "these are my jewels" Valerius Maximus (1st Century.
A root problem in society is that Americans often seem to struggle to see the ways that racial historical legacy continues to influence life today. Most Americans remain blind to the interminable cycle of racial prejudices that affect nearly seventy percent of the nation’s population. It’s no secret that the underlying factor in slavery was race, or that thousands of immigrants were treated unfairly in the workforce during the Industrial Revolution because of nativist views. Discrimination is widely prevalent in the United States today, and the culture continues to perpetuate racial stereotypes in various forms. Take for example recent issues of racial profiling in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island. Ultimately, the resolve to create some universal truth from these racial biases is pivotal.
The time is the sixth century, the place is Rome and the person is Lucretia, a woman who contributed to one of the biggest parts of Roman history: the creation of the Roman republic. The rape of the virtuous Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of Tarquinius Superbus' (an Etruscan king) was the final straw for the Roman people and pushed them to want to change from a monarchy to a republic. From the accounts of the rape of Lucretia from ancient historians like Livy, Cicero and Dionysius, it is clear that Lucretias rape not only spurred the roman people to want to get rid of the Etruscan King and his family, but also revealed the important role of virtue in women in roman society.
... middle of paper ... ... Sandra Cisneros took a risk and got remarkably far with her passion for mixing the cultures and the identities of women. Her voice is what emphasizes the article to show how the goal is to redistribute the language and culture, not criticizing the “New World”.