CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

October 28: Petronius

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)

• From the Aeneid

1. arma virumque cano
   
2. sunt lacrimae rerum
   
3. timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
   
4. tu... Romane... memento...
   parcere subjectis et debellare superbos
   

• From Horace

1. carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
   
2. nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
   
3. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)
   

• Phrases connected with Nero

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

• Petronius (probably ca. 26 CE- 66 CE):

1. arbiter elegantiae (Tacitus' description of Petronius)
2. cave canem (on fresco outside Trimalchio's door)

II. Change in Syllabus: Assignment for Tuesday, November 2nd:
Juvenal, Satires 3 and 10 (from course packet)

III. Test II: Thursday, November 4th
Review Session: Wednesday, November 3rd, 7:00 PM, Belmont 328

IV. Opportunities in Classics

• Courses: Classical Civilization (including SWC courses), Greek, Latin
• minor: 12 hours, including 6 upper division
• majors: Classical Civilization, Greek, Latin, Ancient History and Classical Civilization
• careers:

1. Teaching (UTeach Liberal Arts, Gebauer 4.316)
2. Academia
3. You name it (especially useful for Law School, Medical School, Business)

Contact: Stacey Amorous, Undergraduate Coordinator (Waggener 105, 471-8502, ugclass@www.utexas.edu )

V. Petronius

• The Man
  Tacitus, Annales 16.18
• The Satyricon

1. What is it?
2. How does it represent Rome?
3. How does it criticize Rome?
4. Petronius and Archaeology

Images to accompany discussion

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