What Is Intellectual Culture?

[John32433]

If asked what role ancient Roman women played in intellectual culture, would it be to do with religion? What else comes under intellectual culture?

[Zacs-Master]

Try looking up each word individually and seeing if you can come to any conclusions.

[woofgang]

I think its more of a social history subject

[Old_Geezer]

It's not a phrase I've come across and I'd wonder what it meant, how it differed from other types of culture and be loathe to make a guess. But Yahoo seems to have attracted an opinion. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110825142901AAj9vtq

[Old_Geezer]

Of course the best action would be to ask the person who used the phrase what they meant by it.

[atalanta]

Suggest you read the history of Aspasia

[Peter Pedant]

first decide what culture means
what about - "a group of people sharing a common set of beliefs, activities and artefacts..."
then that includes - kitchen culture and the activities of buying and selling - also of slavery and oops prostitution

all of which I think are excluded by the word intellectual

so what is left - literature - poetry - books - religion possibly, politics

actually - not a bad question
takes poesy only
Latin lit - what do the women do ? well they are adored by the poets - examples - Daphne, Lycoris, Lesbia
( sorry giving only their poetic names)
as opposed to Greek Lit - Sappho - wrote poetry

Religion - you have the vestal virgins - but they werent intellectuals

see how it goes....

[Peter Pedant]

Jackdaw is a Latinist so he mahy be able to fill in the rathe large gaps

the only and first literature by a womenis here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_of_Saint_Perpetua,_Saint_Felicitas,_and_their_Companions

Perpetua writes an account of her own imprisonment
which is thought to be authentic....
and not much earlier

[Jackdaw33]

We were never allowed to read Sappho at school in case we got ideas.

[jourdain2]

This is HUGE question. Sorry, you need to break it up. Is this homework?

[Peter Pedant]

oh. we found EASILY the oldest Latin papyrus with elegiacs by C. Gallus
https://www.jstor.org/stable/299064?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

He was the first prefect of Egypt - invented Latin elegiacs ( along wiv Tibullus, Propertius ) - anjd was forced to commit suicide for setting up images of himself. Busy fella. - much excitement and whooppee in the Classics Depts.

whereas when the new Sappho - was discovered it was all over page 3 of the Sun - fooah! what a wopper etc
https://www.livescience.com/49543-sappho-new-poems-discovery.html.

Sappho is greek in case anyone has got this far and thinks she was a Roman woman

[Jackdaw33]

Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos. You get my drift.

[Peter Pedant]

Late entry - Sappho's long poem - written up by Dirk Obbink ( I kid you nart) is er rather in the shade.

Dirk is the subject of a default civil debt for around $5m for selling other peoples documents

and may have written ( yes written ) this himself

which is ironic

when we found the oldest papyrus Latin - Elegiacs by Gallsu , some old sober sides  thought it was  forgery

and Robert Anderson one of the finders, said " no one on the site could write first century Latin" - variant spelling maxumus for maximus = dieis for deis

and the Latinists found the spelling reforms were all in Quinitilian ( no dont read)