Read the passage from elizabethan ettiquette. sometimes guests brought their own knives and spoons, and sometimes they were furnished by the host. if not eating something soft or soupy that required a spoon, people ate with their fingers, using their knives only to take food from the main serving platter and to cut it when necessary. the knife was placed on the right side of the trencher, and the bread was on the left. cups were not placed on the table. if a guest wanted a drink, he or she would ask a servant, who would bring them a cup that was kept on a side table or sometimes in a cool bath of water. when the guest finished drinking, they would return the cup to the servant, who would rinse it out, making it ready for the next guest. based on the explicit and implicit information from the passage, the reader can infer that a. tableware was rarer in elizabethan times than it is today. b. elizabethan diners were more informal than modern diners c. the elizabethans liked sharing more than modern people do d. guests were happier in elizabethan times than they are now.** i think its one of the top two**

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.