Roman Civilization

CMS 206 /History 206

 Read 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

• 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.

• The Circus
  • RCvI &endash; 172 (462-464); 189 (504-505)
  • RCvII 40 (142-149)

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• 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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