CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

CC 347: The Cultural History of Rome

November 21: Private art and Architecture of the Principate

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I. Lingua Latina

Phrases connected with Nero

• occidat, dum imperet (from Tacitus)
• ventrem feri (from Tacitus)
• Quis negat Aeneae magna de stirpe Neronem?
  sustulit hic matrem, sustulit ille patrem
  (from Suetonius)
• qualis artifex pereo (from Suetonius)

From Juvenal

• difficile est saturam non scribere
• quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio
• panem et circenses
• orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano

Some Graffiti from Pompeii

• C. Pumidius Dipilus Heic Fuit
• Augii Amat Allotenum
• Philiiros spado
• Admiror te, paries, non cecidisse, qui tot scriptorum taedia sustineas.
• Suspirium puellarum,... Celadus... III III

   

II. Cities Destroyed by the Eruption of Vesuvius (79 CE)
Map of the Bay of Naples

III. The Roman House

IV. Outside the House in Pompeii

Images to accompany discussion 21

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