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Portrait of Augustus
(20 BC)
The Capitoline Wolf,
bronze, (c.500-480
BC.)
The Maison Carree (19 B.C.)
The Appian Way
Colosseum
(80 AD)
Point du Gard (16
BC)
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Key Questions
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- Discuss the founding myths of Rome
and how they were transformed by Virgil.
- Explain why the Roman Republic rose
and fell.
- Explain the rise and fall of the
Roman empire.
- What is the relationship between
the mode of production and the values and political/social structures
of the Romans?
- Discuss changes in Greek philosophy
in the Hellenistic Period: Epicureanism, Stoicism
- How did stoicism influence Roman
law and politics?
- Compare the fall of the Athenian
empire with the fall of the Roman empire.
- Discuss how the teachings of Jesus
integrated aspects of Greek and Hebrew thought.
- Describe the contributions of
Jesus, Paul and Augustine to Christian theology.
- To what degree can Christianity
according to Augustine be reconciled with Greco-Roman philosophy?
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Social, Economic, Intellectual, Religious
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Republic:
Empire:
Stoicism:
Christianity:
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Ara Pacis
(13 BC)
Arch of Titus
(81 AD)
Pantheon
118-125 AD
Trajan's Column,
(110-113 AD)
Hadiran's Villa at Tivoli
Baths of Caracalla (212 A.D.)
Basilica Nova (312 A.D.)
Head of Constantine
(330 AD)
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- Outline of Roman History (Morey)
1901
- The Battle of Canae
- Roman
Imperialism and the Pursuit of Glory
- Roman
Expansion and Its Commercial Motive
- The
Disintegration of the Republic
- Orderly
Political Struggle to the Very End
- Julius Caesar (Roma)
- Cynicism - bold and populist,
the history of a shocking philosophy (BBC
Radio)
- Introduction to
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
(Gutenberg)
- Tacitus
- The Decadence of Rome (BBC)
- David Crossland, The Battle That Created Germany:
Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery that could rewrite the
history of a legendary battle between Germanic tribes and the Romans in
the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. Handelsblatt Global, 10-20-17
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Technology in Alexandria, ca. 200 BC
- 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy’s Geographia
- Greenblatt, The Answer Man
New Yorker 8-8-11 An ancient poem was rediscovered—and the world
swerved.Stephen Greenblatt on the influence of Lucretius on the
Renaissance and Modernity
- Stoic
Doctrine
- Forum Romanum
- Roman Engineering: Aqueducts, Baths, Roads, Concrete
- Roman Slavery
- Gaius Appuleius Diocles, the great Charioteer
- Roman Emperors
- Mary Beard, What Might Have Happened Upstairs London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 8 • 26 April 2012" on Pompei
- Mary Beard, Was He Quite Ordinary? London Review of Books Vol. 31 No. 14 • 23 July 2009 on Marcus Aurelius
- Mary Beard, It was satire London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 8 • 26 April 2012
- Mary Beard, Four-Day Caesar London Review of Books Vol. 26 No. 2 · 22 January 2004
- The Trial of Jesus
(32 AD)
- Augustine of Hippo (UPenn)
- When Christians Were Strangers:
How an obscure oriental cult in a corner of Roman Palestine grew to
become the dominant religion of the Western world Aeon 2-8-17
- 2564
The Four Temperaments: From Galen to Jung to Myers and Briggs to Kiersey
- 2408 Roman Political Invective
- 215 Hypatia's mathematics
- 1555 Looking behind the stories for the real Hypatia
- 580 Vitruvius' ten volumes on technologies of the Roman world
- 1038 Hero of Alexandria: freedom from control
- 1161 An old Roman mill tells about the acceptance of technology
- 1282 The development of the seemingly uncomplicated window pane
- 1249 Bricks
- 1345 Hadrian's Pantheon: The world's largest domed structure for 1800 years
- 1450 In which we learn too much about Cleopatra and the Pharos Lighthouse
- 1457 Eratosthenes's 2200 year old calculation of Earth's size
- 1679 The last days of Pompeii, rather like our own lives
- 1783 What did the ancients eat?
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