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    Country villas owned by wealthy Romans were located along the coast or in the hills surrounding Rome. They featured reception rooms, baths heated by hypocausts, and gardens with running water and farmland. Romans wrote letters frequently due to the expanding empire. Letters were delivered by travelers and copies were sometimes sent by different routes in case of loss. Wax tablets and papyrus were used as writing surfaces, with papyrus being more expensive. Letters followed conventions including addressing the recipient, using epistolary tense, and closing with well-wishing but no signature. Publishing letters brought literary prestige.

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    Country villas owned by wealthy Romans were located along the coast or in the hills surrounding Rome. They featured reception rooms, baths heated by hypocausts, and gardens with running water and farmland. Romans wrote letters frequently due to the expanding empire. Letters were delivered by travelers and copies were sometimes sent by different routes in case of loss. Wax tablets and papyrus were used as writing surfaces, with papyrus being more expensive. Letters followed conventions including addressing the recipient, using epistolary tense, and closing with well-wishing but no signature. Publishing letters brought literary prestige.

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    Adopyterium, Tepidarium, Caldarium, Frigidarium

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    Country villas owned by wealthy Romans were located along the coast or in the hills surrounding Rome. They featured reception rooms, baths heated by hypocausts, and gardens with running water and farmland. Romans wrote letters frequently due to the expanding empire. Letters were delivered by travelers and copies were sometimes sent by different routes in case of loss. Wax tablets and papyrus were used as writing surfaces, with papyrus being more expensive. Letters followed conventions including addressing the recipient, using epistolary tense, and closing with well-wishing but no signature. Publishing letters brought literary prestige.

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    I.

    Country Villas
    A. Intro
    1. wealthy: 1 town house (Rome) & 1 country villa
    2. villas either on coast or hills around Rome
    3. Emperor Hadrian has mansion at Tibur
    4. outward-looking (gardens, landscapes, sea)
    B. Design
    1. dining/recption rooms
    2. set of baths heated by hypocausts
    3. adopyterium, tepidarium, caldarium, frigidarium
    4. colonnades, parkland, farmland, gardens, running water
    II. Roman Letters
    A. Subjects
    1. otium: free time, laborious leisure (reading/writing)
    2. negotium: business of life
    3. Pliny the Elder= uncle of Pliny the Younger
    4. studia: learning & studying
    5. Romans wrote letters bc of expanding empire
    B. Delivery
    1. every traveler took letter to deliver, with returning letters
    2. epistulae commendaticiae: letters of introduction to influential people
    3. copies of an important letters were sent with other people or other routes
    (in case of loss/robbery)
    C. Means
    1. notes, short letters, lists written on wax tablets (cerae)
    2. page of papyrus (charta) = expensive, used for important stuff
    3. 2 parallel columns written on each charta
    4. book = strip of papyrus, glued together pieces of charta : keep in scroll
    (volumen) and unrolled as read
    5. amanuenses = secretaries
    6. slave who did dictation/copying = notarius, librarius, servus ab epistulis
    7. secretary wrote line or two in own hand
    8. volumina : copies / volume of letters by Cicero (900 letters) and Pliny
    [their letters = colloquial, fluent, private]
    D. Lines of a Letter
    1. writer (nom. case), recipient (dative case)

    2. SAL (salutem), SD (salutem dicit), or SPD (salutem plurimam dicit)


    3. verbs of tense of time letter was read (scribebam: I am writing) (epistolary
    tense)
    4. message
    5. SVBE (si vales, bene est), vale, or cura ut valeas
    6. dont sign letters
    E. Style and Pubishing
    1. single theme
    2. publishing existed, but not a lot (slave labor was only method)
    3. motive for publishing = literary prestige/fame : dignitas

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