CC 302: Introduction to Ancient
Rome (Unique # 30270)
September 16: Rome, 146-44
BCE
I: Lingua Latina
- Salvete, Salve
- Quid agitis?, Quid agis?
optime, bene, satis bene, male
- Romam a principio reges
habuerunt (Tacitus)
- vae victis (Livy)
- Moribus antiquis res stat
Romana virisque (Ennius)
- Carthago delenda est (Cato the
Elder)
- prandi, potavi, scortum
accubui (Plautus)
- Homo sum: humani nil a me
alienum puto (Terence)
- From Cicero's First Speech
Against Catiline
O tempora, o mores!
- Catullus, Poem 85
odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
- Lucretius, De rerum
natura 3.830
nihil igitur mors est
21 Catullus, Selected Poems in Course Packet, and poem 63,
online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0006:poem=63:line=1
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book 4, verses
1037-1287, online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0131&layout=&loc=4.1057
23 Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline (in course
packet)
III. Study
Guide for Lucretius, Book 3, September
28th
IV. Test, September 30th: Study
Guide
V. Rome,
146-44 BCE
(You are responsible for all dates
marked in bold,
as well as for relative chronology of all events)
A. Further
conquests
• 133:
Province of Asia bequeathed to Rome
• 111-105:
War with Jugurthus
• 109-101:
Cimbri and Teutones
• 88-63: Wars
with Mithridates, Pompey's conquests in East
•
58-50: Caesar conquers Gaul
Maps
of the Roman Empire at Different Times
A. Problems and
stresses
1. in the
senate
- group vs.
individuals
- nobiles vs.
novi homines
- populares
vs. optimates
2.
equites
- tax farming
(publicani)
- law
courts
3.
others
- land
distribution
- grain
supply
- debt
B.
Events
- Tribunates of
Tiberius (133) and Gaius (122) Gracchus
- 106-101: Gaius
Marius enlists unpropertied in army
- 91-88: Italian
(Social) War
- 88-82:
Civil Wars between Sulla and Marius (and his
successors)
- 82-79: Sulla
dictator
- 73-71: Slave
Revolt under Spartacus
- 63:
Conspiracy of Catiline
- 60:
"1st Triumvirate" of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
- 53: Crassus
killed fighting Parthians
- 49-45:
Civil War between Caesar and Pompeians
- 44:
Caesar Assassinated
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to Accompany Discussion 7
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