Lysias On The Murder Of Eratosthens

My two primary sources would be coming the book Sources of World Societies Volume I . The two different documents I will decided to follow and describe will be the trail of Lysias on the Murder of Eratosthenes on page 97 and the writing of Cicero, The Defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus: Description of Clodia on page 121. The main focus of my writing would be the interlining on how both were different but had the same stands on they looked upon women. Bot doucmuents will speak on how woman should be seem as property and as a man you must proect your property at all cost. It was a man world and it sure did look that way by the details I took from both documents.
The muderof Eratosthenes was a speech was given by a certain Euphiletos, defending …show more content…
She is a woman of a noble brith who was into proety and also carried a notorious reputations. This document goes on tells events of the act of an apptemp of poisoning her. I will take examples within the text to relay my theory as certain women were looked at as proberty. The simple idea had been put on man during this time of Rome that it was not only okay but should be allowed for a married man to carry on various affairs with prositutites and lovers. As this will be given the idea of the” wife” as proberty that one man investes in in order to produce children and carry on the man name. They should not be looked at as equals. With the expections of woman like Clodia who is catorgized as a woman who carries a notorious reputations. My assumastion to my theory would catoraey is the way of an escort and as we disscuss in class certain women were put aside and not deed women that you should marry. As taken from page 122, “ If anyone thinks young men ought to be forbibidden affais even with prostitutes, he is very austere…….he is also not in harmony with the customs of our ancestors.” The idea of a man not going out and involving himself with different woman was more of a tradtion. Another case would be made during agreement about a double standard for woman being whores and that of a man who just sees sex as sex and not a form of adultery. From page 123 “ If a young man should happen to be found in the …show more content…
I linked the two together by in which both were in form of cases being held but that was not the foucs point of my connections. I looked for a few senecnes with the documents in order to prove my case. The idea of woman being looked at as property and the idea that a man has the right to sleep around still occurs in today solicties. Thus being the reason why I choose to write about this topic because I find it interesting that history tend to repeats itself. As it even states in document The Defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus, that it is the customs of our ancestors as an excuse to correct a