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Rome: From Civitas to Respublica : Essential values in the Roman communitas

Rome: From Civitas to Respublica : Essential values in the Roman communitas. Roman values based on the Readings. Rome (model), 500 BCE. Rome (reconstruction), 2 nd century CE. Roman empire at its height, 2 nd c. CE. Alexander’s conquests and his empire, 323 BCE.

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Rome: From Civitas to Respublica : Essential values in the Roman communitas

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  1. Rome: From Civitas to Respublica:Essential values in the Roman communitas

  2. Roman values based on the Readings

  3. Rome (model), 500 BCE

  4. Rome (reconstruction), 2nd century CE

  5. Roman empire at its height, 2nd c. CE

  6. Alexander’s conquests and his empire, 323 BCE

  7. Hellenistic kingdoms after Alexander’s death in 323 BCE

  8. Readings 1) Livy 1 preface • What does Livy say about Rome’s past and her present (he’s writing in the age of Augustus, who ruled 31 BCE – 14 CE)? • What values are important to Livy, and how does he use these values to prepare his readers?

  9. Etruscan League and domination of northern Italy, ca. 700-500 BCE

  10. Readings 2) Livy 1.1-4: “The Earliest Legends” • In these passages, what values does Livy stress?

  11. Italy under the Etruscans, 500 CE

  12. Readings 3) Livy 1.157-60: “The Rape of Lucretia” • What is the allegory which the story of Lucretia presents?

  13. Roman Republic in the age of Polybius

  14. Readings 4) Polybius 6.11-18: “The Roman Constitutions” • What are the various elementsof Rome’s republican constitution and why does Polybius consider Rome’s government ideal?

  15. Readings 4) Treatise attributed to Phintys: “Chastity”; Livy 34.1, “Women Oppose the Oppian Law” • What are the ideal virtues of a woman? how should a woman behave and how should she not behave?

  16. Marcus Tullius CiceroJanuary 3, 106 – December 7, 43 BCE

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