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LECTURE:
ROMAN POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Geography of Italy from Interactive Ancient Mediterranean Web site (http://iam.classics.unc.edu)
MAP Rome 86 BC
MAP Rome at its greatest extent: AD 116

Roman politics

• Virtue
  Document: Cicero - Scipio's Dream
• Roman Republic
  • Patrician, Plebeian and the Law
    Twelve Tables, 450 BC
    
  • Gracchi brothers
  • Marius and Sulla
  • Julius Caesar Cleopatra, USF Actium Project
• Roman Empire
  • Augustus Map of Europe in AD 1
  • Emperors list of emperors
  • Tacitus and aristocratic lifestyle
    • How to host a Roman orgy

Roman technology

• waterwheels: noria, grain mills, Barbegal AD 300, gearing
• roads: Appian Way, map of Roman roads, Roman street
• aqueducts Segovia, crossing the countryside, cross-section
• architecture Document: The Pantheon

Roman society during the Empire

women The Social Hierarchy Document: Juvenal - Satire on Women rural life Document:Cato the Censor - On Agriculture cities grain control layout of Rome Crassus' fire dept. education

Germanic tribes introduced

Roman dress barbarian dress

Document: Tacitus - Admitting Provincials into the Senate

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