[HN Gopher] Laudatio Turiae
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Laudatio Turiae
Author : benbreen
Score : 65 points
Date : 2024-05-06 04:06 UTC (4 days ago)
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| washadjeffmad wrote:
| Translated inscription:
| https://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/survey/laud%20tur.htm
| slowhadoken wrote:
| The love of a virtuous woman is a rare and wonderful thing.
| because_789 wrote:
| Any citations for it being rare?
| mukara wrote:
| The story of Turia, with all sorts of terrible hardships she
| endured, is told in the second episode [1] of a BBC Radio 4
| series [2] called "Being Roman" by the English classicist Mary
| Beard.
|
| The series wonderfully contextualizes the Roman empire and its
| cultural mix in 8 episodes (~30 minutes each). It uses stories of
| six individuals from different walks of life; from the emperor
| Marcus Aurelius, to a (possibly enslaved) child prodigy, to a
| traveling Syrian man who gets married on Hadrian's wall to an
| enslaved English girl around 2nd century CE.
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| [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sctb
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| [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gq54cg/episodes/
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