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Assignment 4
Remember to "REFRESH."
Hellas Pt. 2.5 and Rome I.
The Capitoline
Wolf
Romulus and
Remus and their Foster Mother, the She-Wolf
The wolf is 5th
century BC – Etruscan.
(some challenge
this and think it is 13th c.)
Romulus and
Remus were added in the 15th century.
The kids are
very Renaissancy, alla Michelangelo or Bernini. [Kids attributed to Pollaiolo]
For Monday:
- Read this interesting ancient
court case: EratosthenesMurder400BC.pdf
[582MB]
-Read from Davies: pp. 133-147.
-Be prepared for a quiz on the
above readings and the readings from last week. This one will be worth more than the
usual quiz, so really master the material. You may bring one page (standard 8.5" x 11") to
this quiz with anything on it.
For Wednesday:
-Read from Davies: pp.
148-153(mid-page). On earliest
Rome.
-Read Livy's account of the
founding of Rome. Livy-Aeneas-to-Romulus-to-SabineWomen.htm
It is sort of a three-part story.
First Aeneas, a Trojan hero and refugee, sets up in Italy. Then his
descendents, Romulus and Remus, found the city of Rome. Then the newly founded Rome realizes
that it has a gender problem similar to Stevens Institute.
-Look over the family tree for
the founding of Rome: AeneasToRomulus.jpg There is a link to this in the Livy
reading too.
"Essay": Due Wednesday. Remember, I
want you to have done 3 assignments by Week 7 (10/21/2009). All of you should have done one, the
comic, and a couple of you have done 2, so start doing these things. This a good week to do one since I've
limited the volume of reading.
Write a 1-page (or more), single-spaced essay (or the equivalent in
another medium) that engages the assigned readings for this week. You could focus on a particular issue
from one of the readings that interests you or you could take a broader
approach and synthesize all the readings into one essay. I'm impressed when you
can refer to readings from previous weeks and I am impressed when you can
incorporate the optional readings that I post. Remember to cite sources including a reference to the
reading itself.
Ideas:
Compare and contrast the founding of Rome to the founding of the United States
stories. I'm guessing you'll find
more contrast, but similarities are also easily found. Pick one of those special interest
boxes from the Davies text and learn more about it. Find examples of paintings and sculptures that show some of
the scenes from the Livy reading and look at them closely and try to figure out
what everything is. Iconography is
tricky, but fun.
Citations
to the assigned readings other materials from this week. Feel free to draw upon any
optional readings having to do with any Greek speakers from previous assigment
pages.
Davies, Norman. Europe : A
History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hornblower, Simon, and Antony
Spawforth eds. The
Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Livy. Roman History. Translated by John Henry
Freese, Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Edited by Duffield
Osborne. New York: D. Appleton and Company[?], 1904.
Lupercal
The
name given to the cave at the base of the Palatine Hill, where Romulus and
Remus were nursed by the she-wolf.
Notice
Romulus and Remus in the lower left.
The Tiber River is probably personified by that man to the right of the
she-wolf.
The
Palatine is the hill upon which the upper men are walking and where Romulus and
Remus were found in a cave with their foster mother, the wolf.
The
two men appear to carry shepherd staves and probably depict Faustulus [and
associate] happening upon the she-wolf nursing the twins.
Their
head gear may refer to the military school (dedicated to Mars, god of war)
which was located on the Palatine.[???]
A favorite
symbol of Republican Rome was the fasces, a bundle of sticks bound by strips of
leather. It symbolically
functioned like our national motto, "E pluribus unum." ["From many, one"] ...many sticks acting as one... It would frequently have an axe head
sticking out of it to really emphasize the power. Lictors, super-special bodyguards (mentioned in the Livy reading),
carry fasces
as part of their uniform. The word
"fascism" comes from fasces. Fasces are a
favorite symbol in a lot of nationalistic imagery.
This
is a 2-4-1. Both a fasces and "E pluribus unum."
In
National Treasure III, will Nicholas Cage discover that the U.S. is actually
ruled by Italian fascists?
Lictors.
Here
you can make out some fasces near the top of this image from the Ara Pacis [Alter of Peace] from 9 BC.
Another way of
viewing fasces is more insidious.
Anthony Marshall (a
Classical historian) wrote, "the fasces were not merely decorative or
symbolic devices carried before magistrates in a parade of idle formalism.
Rather, they constituted a portable kit for flogging and decapitation. Since
they were so brutally functional, they not only served as ceremonial symbols of
office but also carried the potential of violent repression and execution." [p. 130 in Marshall,
Anthony J. "Symbols and Showmanship in Roman Public Life: The
Fasces." Phoenix 38, no. 2 (1984): 120-141.]
Back to
Syllabus
[EuroHist-HHS123-F09]
My
email – HHS123F09@mifami.org
Excellent detailed photos of the Ara Pacis.
Special Presentations by ....
Bobby Bishop on Ancient Food
Here is a link to the materials for this presentation.
CookingBibliographyClassical.htm
Here is an older copy of the Apicius cookbook with lots of recipes. Be warned that the theory about what garum/liquimen is, has been revised significantly since this was originally published. The edition edited by Grocock and Grainger includes the chapter that reflects the recent scholarship.
Apicius-Vehling-excerpts120dpi.pdf
[9.3MB]
Exam Review Materials
10/17/09
EratosthenesCircum.htm-
just look over the broad strokes.
and
Paper-Papyrus-Parchment-Hemp-Linen.htm