Traditional role of Roman parents (models: Cato the Elder and Cornelia)

a) Varro (1st cent. B.C.E) divided academic disciplines into categories. System modified in Late Antiquity gives rise to Trivium and Quadrivium

Rhetorical training: Teaching method of Quintilian

Simile

Metaphor

ALLEGORY

PARABLE

FABLE

METONYMY

SYNECDOCHE:

HYPERBOLE:

IRONY:

LITOTES:

HYPERBATON:

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Adverb

Pronoun

Preposition

Roman Numerals: Be able to convert Roman numbers to our numerical system or viceversa

Catullus (ca. 84-54 B.C.E.)

Horace (65-8 B.C.E):

Martial (ca 40-102 C.E):

Juvenal (ca 55-138 C.E):

Roman literature: modeled after Greek literature. Beginnings.

Brief bio of Vergil

Themes of the Aeneid:

Aeneid 1-6: parallels Odyssey (in reverse)

Aeneid 7-12: parallels Iliad (in reverse)

Major events in Book 1, Book 2, Book 4 and Book 6 (see slide ‘Events in the Aeneid)

Odysseus and Aeneas’ shared experiences in travels:

a) I sing of arms and the man
b) hurled about endlessly by land and sea
c) by cruel Juno’s remorseless anger
d) from that the Latin people
e) came, the lords of Alba Longa, the walls of noble Rome

Aeneid’s major characters and their counterparts in Homeric Poems:

Dactyl:

Spondee:

Literary issues: Major passages in which Virgil mimics Homer.

Augustus’ Propaganda and its reflection in the Aeneid:

Two major episodes in the Aeneid:

Augustan propaganda

Vestibulum

Taberna

Atrium

Impluvium

Cubiculum

Triclinium

Tablinum

Peristylium

Insulae: Major characteristics

Public buildings: Features and uses:

Basilicas

Munera

Venationes

Circus Maximus: Major characteristics or chariot races

History of gladiatorial games

Lanista

Editor

Gladius

Scutum

Manica

Colosseum: Major characteristics

Construction materials:

Thermae

Balneae

Tepidarium

Frigidarium

Social Orders in the Imperial Period and its pyramidal structure

Senators and Equites: Their status symbols and honorific titles

Role of status in Roman society: Pliny’s saying ‘nothing is more unequal than equality itself’ and its meaning within Roman social system

Patron-client relationship:

Atomistic model:

Slavery in Antiquity: Major characteristics, quality of life and social status

Sources of slaves and their occupations

Modern City

Roman City

The military camp (major characteristics and its role as a precursor of cities)

What buildings would you expect to find in a Roman city?

Annona

Porticus Aemilia

Horreum

“Lupanar”

Types of scripts

Capital

Majuscule

Cursive

Minuscule

Types of writing materials

Papyrus

Parchment

Scrolls

Codex

Wax tablet

Problems with preservation of ancient literature: (a) transmission, (b) authorship and (c) date and place of publication

Intrinsic Probability:

Transcriptional Probability: Does it look like an alteration made by a scribe.

EXTERNAL EVIDENCE (study of manuscripts):

Roman Glass: Types:

Amphorae and their uses

Roman diet: What is garum?

Julio-Claudian dynasty and its Emperors

69 C.E. The year of the four emperors. Tacitus’ views on the events

The Flavian dynasty: Vespasian, brief bio, accomplishments and events during his reign.

The Antonine Dynasty: The five good Emperors

Trajan: brief bio, accomplishments, conquests and events during his reign

The column of Trajan and scenes depicted in it.

Major events/accomplishments of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius

Crisis of the third century (235-284 C.E.)

Ovid (read selections from Metamorphoses). Major points in Ovid’s biography. Nature and scope of the book. Meter and self-conscious adaptation and references to traditional myth. Beginning and ending lines of the poem.

Daphne and Apollo

Pygmalion

Pyramus and Thisbe

Ovid’s treatment of Augustus in book 15. Possible interpretations?

Stylometry