Bates College - Winter 2004

CM/HI 107 - ROMAN CIVILIZATION

Links of Interest

Week 1

• web site on Roman calendar
• The Seven Kings of Rome
• Ancient Rome: Images and Pictures
• Horace, Satire 1.6
• A Roman History Timeline
• Etruscans on the Web
• ROMAN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE: The Etruscans
• Junior Classical League: Etruscans
• Upenn: Who are the Etruscans?: [student project]
• Calendars Through the Ages: Early Roman Calendar
• Roman chronology:
• Roman workweek and leisure time:
• Roman Time:
• Roman Workday:
• Encyclopedia Britannica: calendar:
• Roman Calendar and Religious Festivals:

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Week 2

• Shakespeare's version of the Lupercalia of 44 BCE
• Plutarch's account in the life of Romulus (section 21 ff.)
• Livy's account of the Lupercalia on which Romulus restored his grandfather Numitor to the throne.
• Relationship of the Lupercalia to the modern St. Valentine's day
• History Channel
• The Origins of Valentine's Day
• St. Valentine and Valentine's Day
• Gander Academy's Valetine's Day page
• Background info on Lupercalia from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• The Roman Republican Constitution
• Development of the Roman Constitution
• A second site titled Development of the Roman Constitution
• The Roman Constitution
• Constitution of the Early Republic
• Roman Government - The Republic

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Week 3

• Roman History Review: Conquest of Italy Begins
• Expansion of Rome to the Gallic Sack
• Roman Colonies
• Roman Clothing
• Article on Roman Clothing: part 1 and part 2
• The Roman Army in the Late Republic and Early Empire; The Roman Army, Part II
• The Roman Army in Scotland
• Soldier's Equipment: Armentarium: A Beginner's Guide
• The Roman Army Page
• The Roman Army in Britain
• A Bibliography on the Roman Army
• The Roman Army of the Middle Republic

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Week 4

• The Construction and Makeup of Roman Roads
• The Family Tree of the Cornelii Scipiones
• Elogia of the Tomb of the Scipios
• Encyclopedia Britannica on the Samnite Wars
• Bibliography on the Roman Navy
• Map of the Punic Wars
• Roman Triremes
• Review of Roman History: The Latin and Samnite Wars; Pyrrhic War
• C. S. Mackay - The Roman Conquest of Italy
• C.S. Mackay - The First Punic War; The Second Punic War (Part 1); (Part 2); (Part 3)
  
• more pictures of Palatine hill: site 1; site 2
• Circus Maximus
• more on Circus Maximus: site 1; site 3;
• Temples to Ceres
  • plan of what may have been temple to Ceres in Ostia
  • Temple of Ceres in Paestum
• more on Mithras:
  • Mithras
  • A temple of Mithras in Britain;
  • Mithric worship
  • resources for study of Mithraisim
  • a Mithrium in Capua
    
• Death
  • University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum electronic exhibit: Death on Display in the Ancient World
  • DEREK B. COUNTS, "Regum Externorum Consuetudine: The Nature and Function of Embalming in Rome" - (note, link is to abstract, you have to download article if you're interested)
  • Etruscan Death Rituals
  • The International Catacomb Society
  • Ostia Necropolis
• Triumphs
  • William Ramsay, "Triumphus," in William Smith, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.
  • The Route of the Triumph
  • The Roman Triumph

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Week 5

• History of T. Gracchus' political career/activity
• The tribunate of T. Gracchus
• The career of Gaius Gracchus
• Gaius' political program
• Roman Empire and Dictatorship
• The Illyrian Wars
• First Macedonian War; 2nd site
• Second Macedonian War; 2nd site
• Antiochus
• Third Macedonian War
• Scipiones - Family Tree

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Week 6 - !!Break!!

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Week 7

• Jugurtha / Sulla / Mithridatic Wars / Sulla and the Senate /Africa & Rome /
• Encyclopaedia Britannica on:
  • Jugurtha,
  • Sulla,
  • Marius,
  • Caecilius Metellus,
  • M. Livius Drusus,
  • Saturninus
• Sacellum of the Augustales in Misenum
• flamen dialis

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Week 8

• Prof. Damon's course on Pompeii and Herulaneum (a great place to explore)
• Pliny's accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius (Pliny, Ep. 6.16); (Pliny, Ep. 6.20); a geologist's account
• Examples of Roman graffiti: #1, #2, (inscriptions and graffiti); #3 (from a tavern); #4 (from a basilica) #5 (inscriptions and graffiti from the amphitheater) #6 (inscriptions and graffiti from a temple) #7 (from Ostia)
• Petronian Society Ancient Novel Page; Notes on the Satyricon
• Resources for the study of Roman housing
• The Christian Bible: Acts 32 (communal living of jewish sect); Tabitha the tunic maker / Paul exercises his right as a citizen to appeal to the Emperor / the centurion's servant / the miracle of the loves and fishes / fishermen and tax collectors

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Week 9

• Rome: The Age of Augustus / The Emergence of the Augustan Age / Augustan Age Links
• Augustan Timeline / Augustan Chronology
• The Augustan Building Program / Augustus and the Early Roman Empire /
• Augustus, the Principate and Propaganda
• Augustan Bibliography / A Very Select Bibliography for Augustus
• A Literary History of the Augustan Age /
• Julius Caesar a biography in 12 parts / Julius Caesar /
• The Imperial Cult / Emperor Worship / C. S. Mackay on Emperor Worship

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Week 10

• A Visual Compendium of the Roman Emperors
• The Roman Empire in the First Century - PBS
• De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
• The Circus Maximus (with good bibliography)
• The Prejudice Against Theatre
• The Role of the Emperor at the Games
• Encyclopaedia Britannica on Roman Religion
• Cato on planting rituals for farmers

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Week 11

• PBS (The Roman Empire in the First Century) on Vespasian
• Professor MacKay on Vespasian and Titus
• Translation of legislation empowering Vespasian
• Vespasian coinage; Vespasian bibliography;
• Tacitus's account of how The Legions proclaimed Vespasian Emperor
• Professor MacKay on Domitian
• A Domitian bibliography
• Domitian coinage

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Week 12

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