MATERIAL TO BE COVERED IN QUIZ 3 (Tues. Nov. 13):

 

Sept. 29- OCT. 4:  Reigns of Claudius and Nero.  Suet. Lives of Claudius & Nero; The Julians (on line textbook); Boatwright, Romans, 201-11; Claudius Notes; Nero Notes; Tacitus, Death of Seneca. RECOMMENDED:  Tac. Ann. 228-261, 281-416.

 

OCT. 19-21:  The Year of Four Emperors and the Flavian Emperors. Read Suet. Lives of Vespasian, Titus, Domitian and one of the following: Galba, Otho, or Vitellius; Boatwright, Romans, 211-213, 222-227; RECOMMENDED:  Tacitus, Histories, Books II-III (On Reserve).

 

OCT. 26-28:  RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE; Read the Gospel of John, Acts of the Apostles; Juvenal, Satire 7, 13; Late Philosophical Developments; Pagan World Views; The Development of Greek Rational Thought

                                                                                       

NOV. 2-4:   SEXUALITY AND GENDER RELATIONS; THE ANTONINES PART I.  Petronius, the Satyricon; Juvenal, Satires, 2, 6, 11; Boatwright, Romans, 227-246.  Bibliography for Ancient Women at Purdue; The Pax Romana

 

NOV. 9-11:  LIVING CONDITIONS IN ROME AND THE EMPIRE; LAW AND ECONOMY; CULTURAL HOMOGENEITY; THE ANTONINES II.  Juvenal, Satires 3, 5, 8, 12, 15; Boatwright, Romans, 246-256. Roman Civic Life,; Recommended: Johnston, The Private Life of the Romans

 

MAP TEST – ROMAN PROVINCES – 10 ITEMS

Description: Description: Description: romanempire4

 

For a larger map, click here

                                        

Know the locations of the following provinces: Britannia, Lusitania, Belgica, Aquitania, Gallia Cisalpina, Pannonia, Dacia, Asia, Lycia, Cilicia, Syria, Baetica, Terraconensis

 

Multiple Choice Items: Nero, Agrippina the Younger, L. Annaeus Seneca, imperial freedmen, Pisonian Conspiracy,

Vespasian (the Flavians), Trajan (the Antonines), Trajan’s Column, Hadrian, the Pantheon, Dacia, Jewish Rebellions, the Limes, Colosseum, Nero’s Golden House, Roman Roads, Aqueduct, Basilica, Council House, marriage and gender relations, autonomous women, Petronius, the Satyricon, Trimalchio, slavery, Gospel of John, Mystery Cults, Nous, Logos, Boule kai Demos; Imperial priests, Oikoumene

 

For Images I will rely on the following posted at the CLCS 181 website:

 

 

Roman Buildings

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Circus Maximus

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Roman Aqueducts

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Roman Basilicas

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Roman Baths

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Roman Temples

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

The Palatine

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

The Roman Colosseum

Description: Description: Description: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/_themes/expeditn/expbul2d.gif

Domestic Architecture