CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

October 7: Rome, Julio-Claudians; Livy

I: Lingua Latina

• Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

1. Festina lente (a favorite motto of Augustus)
   
2. O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
   
3. Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
   

• From Livy's Ab urbe condita

1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

II. Planning Ahead: Vergil's Aeneid next week 

III. The Julio-Claudians: continued from Tuesday

IV. Titus Livius (c. 64 BCE- c. 12 CE)

• The Ab Urbe Condita
• Livy on the Beginning of the Republic: exempla virtutis

1. Lucretia
2. Brutus and the Expulsion of the Tarquins
3. Brutus' sons
4. Horatius
5. Mucius Scaevola
6. Cloelia

• Livy as a Roman and an Augustan

Images of stories from Livy

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