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The Romans were very into nicknames, probably because their naming system had so few personal names and because they were commonly inherited in a family, so it was not that uncommon for all the men in a family to have the same name! Nicknames were just part of life and were sometimes mocking, sometimes honoring, and probably most commonly just because.
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1) Yes, history has documented honor killings back to ancient times.
Honour killings have been known since ancient Roman times, when the pater familias, or senior male within a household, retained the right to kill an unmarried but sexually active daughter or an adulterous wife.Footnote39 Honour-based crimes were known in medieval Europe where early ...
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You would do well to remember that there were very few similarities between Roman and Greek religion until the Romans began borrowing from the Greeks. For an idea of how utterly different Roman religion originally was from Greek religion, see for example Dumezil's Archaic Roman Religion.
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This is a bad answer - I don't have sources available. It is my understanding that we lack a great deal of the sources needed for an emic understanding of Roman and Greek religious practice, and I think that's fundamentally what you're seeking.
Note that the differences between religions may not be obvious to the outsider. I've encountered Protestants who ...
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The biggest difference that I'm aware of is that the Classical Greek religion was much more the religion of myths that we all know, while the Classical Roman religion had fewer personifications and its gods were much more like numinous forces than like people.
The Greek religion that we know was encapsulated by Homer who served in some respects like an Old ...
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Honor killings??? Greek mythology/history is full of killings for honor.
Odysseus killing the Suitors of Penelope
Orestes killing his uncle Aegisthus and his mother (though unknowingly) Clytemnestra for killing his father Agamemnon
Ajax killing himself because of the dishonoring madness which caught him after losing the verbal fight between the Greeks for ...
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