{"id":41122,"date":"2018-07-27T00:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/did-ancient-romans-shake-their-hands\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T22:09:15","slug":"did-ancient-romans-shake-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/did-ancient-romans-shake-their-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ancient Romans shake their hands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Chapters<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/did-ancient-romans-shake-their-hands\/#forearm-handshake\" >Forearm handshake<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>As it turns out, the exchange of handshakes is a custom that goes back to the times of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/greece-birth-of-city\/\">Greece<\/a>, more or less in the fifth century BCE. We know this because of the preserved messages and artefacts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is therefore natural, that such principles of social life were also present in ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. We have a large number of preserved reliefs or coins, on which we can see figures giving themselves right hands (so-called <em>dextrarum iunctio<\/em>). As it turns out, this form of behaviour was mainly ceremonial, which expressed a strong bond between two people, for example between a woman and a man during a wedding, between two entities concluding a settlement, between a patron and a freedman, or simply as a sign of peace and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible, therefore, to suppose that Romans did not give hands in every situation (as we do today), but rather in a more formal moment.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"forearm-handshake\"><\/span>Forearm handshake<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hollywood films (eg. &#8220;Gladiator&#8221;) have built and strengthened the view that there <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/lincolns-killer-was-roman\/\">was Roman<\/a> forearm handshake. As we know, such a greeting is much more expressive, carnal and even symbolic. In the opinion of many, such handshake better reflected the character of Romans, in accordance with their principles and loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>We do not have any real evidence (in the form of relief or an ancient source) suggesting that forearm handshake is a typical Roman masculine greeting. It seems that it is rather a later invention, which main aim was to create an aura of perfection around the Romans and their world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41120,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-41122","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/41122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/41122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=41122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}