Roman
Civilization
CMS 206 /History
206
Discussion Group 1
Questions
- Assigned primary readings from this
week:
- ARC - p. 24-25; p.
28-29; p.238-239
- RCvI 90
(230-234); RCvII
5 (13-15)
- ARC -
158-161
- RCvI 112 (313 &endash;
314); 181-184 (517-525)
- RCvII 53 -54
(189-198)
- Things for discussion group
leaders to think about:
- Who are the authors of
the primary texts you've read? How do you think their
identities might affect the way they percieved the events they
described:
- The two funerals and two
triumphs you've read about describe similar events separated by
significant periods of time in Rome's history.
- How are the
descriptions similar and different?
- Do you think the
differences reflect changes in Roman civilization?
- If they do reflect
differences, does that mean Romanitas
changed?
- If
Romanitas could change
- what might
cause these changes?
- what does it
mean that a concept like Romanitas could
change?
- Do you think the
similarities reflect continuities in Roman
civilization?
- If they do reflect
continuities, does that mean Romanitas didn't
change?
- If
Romanitas didn't change
- what might
cause these continuites?
- what does it
mean that a concept like Romanitas could
endure?
- What does the fact
that the same rituals might change and yet stay the same
tell us about Romanitas as a conceptual
tool?
- How are triumphs and
funerals similar?
- How are each of these
activities related to Roman ideas about the identity of the
Roman citizen and his relationship to his
communtiy?
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