• Places
• Periods
• Politics
• Reminders:
  • Sharon Gerstel, Dept. of Art history in the University of Maryland, who will give a talk entitled "Painting and Piety in Late Medieval Thessaloniki" on Monday, Jan. 28 in Pettengill G52 (the Keck) at 7.00 p.m. [That's 1/2 point for the mercenary among you.]
  • Discussion Sections: You must meet in a room where you can close the door: e.g.: a lounge in Pettengill.

• Places
  • Roman Public Works
  • The Roman Wall
• Periods
  • Monarchy: 753-509 BCE

    Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5: an account of history/legend of Roman foundations as Romans understood them at the time of Augustus Senate: even under the monarchy, an important social and political institution. MWPC considers Senate the king's consilium. For Romans and Latins: a) a period of expansion and cross - cultural contact b) political domination by Etruscans Q - what do we know about the Etruscans? Why don't we know more? [MWPC 168] Q - what did Rome "learn" from the Etruscans? [MWPC 168-169]

     

The Early Roman Republic, 509-287 BCE