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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. Rome (reconstruction), 200 CE. Roman Forum, today. Rome (reconstruction), 200 CE: city Forum. Etruscan Rome and the Greeks. Rome (model), 500 BCE. Italy under the Etruscans, 500 CE.

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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. Rome (reconstruction), 200 CE

  3. Roman Forum, today

  4. Rome (reconstruction), 200 CE: city Forum

  5. Etruscan Rome and the Greeks

  6. Rome (model), 500 BCE

  7. Italy under the Etruscans, 500 CE

  8. Emergence of the Roman Republic, 380 BCE

  9. Roman Republic, ca. 220 BCE

  10. Roman Republic, ca. 50 BCE

  11. Readings 1) Livy 1 preface • How does Livy’s methodology for writing history compare with that of Herodotus or Thucydides? 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? 2) Livy 1.1-4, 157-60, and 5.50-55: “The Earliest Legends,” “The Rape of Lucretia,” and “The Speech of Camillus” • In these passages, what values does Livy stress? how does he view Rome’s most distant past and how does it connect to her present and future? • What is the allegory which the story of Lucretia presents? • What are Camillus’ arguments for not abandoning the city of Rome and on what values does he base his case? 3) Polybius 6.11-18: “The Roman Constitutions” • What are the various elements of Rome’s republican constitution and why does Polybius consider Rome’s government ideal? 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?

  12. Roman values based on the Readings

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