Roman
Civilization
CMS 206 /History
206
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to Prepare for Wednesday
Lecture
- Slavery
- RCvI - 94 &endash; 95 (227-234); 166
(440-450)
- RCvII &endash; 24 (85-95)
- Pliny the Younger, Ep.
3.14; Ep.
5.19
Suggested Secondary Reading:
- F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr.
C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989):
- chapter 3 &endash; Slaves and freedman
(56-72);
- chapter 5: Roman Houses &endash;
(90-104);
- Chapter 6 &endash; The Family
(103-121)
- Chapter 13 &endash; The Ages of man
(219-238);
- Chapter 16 &endash; Food, banqueting and
the pleasures of the evening (269-286)
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, House and Society
in Pompeii and Herculaneum (Princeton, 1994):
- Chapter 1 - Reading the Roman House
(3-16);
- Chapter 7 - Luxury and Status
(143-174).
- Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome
(Cambridge, 1994)
- Chapter 2 - The slave society of Rome
(10-31);
- Chapter 5 - Quality of Life
(81-106)
- Beryl Rawson, ed: The Family in Ancient
Rome: New Perspectives (Cornell, 1986)
- Chapter 1 - The Roman Family (Beryl
Rawson) (1-57)
- Chapter 5 - Patria Potestas
(121-144)
- Chapter 7 - Children in the Roman
Familia (Beryl Rawson) (170-200)
- Chapter 8 - Wet-nursing at Rome: a Study
in Social Relations (Keith R. Bradley) (201-229)
- Treggiari, Susan "Home
and Forum: Cicero between 'Public' and
'Private'" TAPhA 128 (1998) 1
-+-
- Treggiari, Susan (1976) Jobs for Women. In:
AJAH. American Journal for Ancient History. - Bd. 1 (1976). - S.
76-104.
Read
Friday Night to Prepare for Monday
Lecture
- The Circus
- RCvI &endash; 172 (462-464); 189
(504-505)
- RCvII 40 (142-149)
Secondary Reading:
-
- F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr.
C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989): Chapter 15: Clothing, finery and
bathing (258-268)
- I.M. Barton (ed), Roman Public Buildings
(University of Exeter Press, Exeter: 1989): Chapter 4: Buldings
for Entertainment by A. J. Brothers)
- Carlin A. Barton, The Sorrows of the
Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster (
Princeton1993)
- Chapter 1: The Scandal of the Arena
(11-46)
- Chapter 2: Wine Without Water
(47-84)
- Roland Auguet, Cruelty and Civilization:
The Roman Games (Routledge, 1972)
- Introduction: Roman Cruelty
(13-18)
- Chapter 1: From Rite to Spectacle: the
Cladiatorial Combats (19-45)
- Chapter 2: In the Arena
(46-80)
- Chapter 6: The Reign of the Star
(149-183)
- Chapter 7: A Civilization Based on Games
(184-199)
- Erik Gunderson, The Ideology of the
Arena, Classical Antiquity 15 (1996), 113-152
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