Classics Lecture

This week, A-Level Latin and Classical Civilisation students attended an online lecture
given by Professor Richard Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London) about 'Love &
Marriage in the Ancient World'.

His talk was challenging and eyeopening about the stark differences between the nature of Roman and modern marriage. Pranavi Devaraj asked whether Juvenal's poetry could be taken as the everyday point of view in the 1st Century  - no it is an extreme exaggerated case; Laila El Gazar asked whether location played any role in marriage practices  - no, it is likely that villages and towns had the same views as Rome.