CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tiberius Claudius Narcissus, Punic Wars, Macedonian Wars

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Used art to argue that the administrative government was broken. Joined 7 hilled communities to be one whole. Patricians: would fill the cenit, had great wealth. Influx of money prompt a change in roman society. Borrowed this naming system from the etruscan: gaius julius caesar. Corona civica: was given a crown to thank him for ending the civil war. Showed he was a part of a branch connecting to the clan. Needed a new strategy to win the war. Maximus had a a fabulous plan to avoid hannibal"s main front to win the war for the romans. A mass amount of slaves would cause mass poverty eventually the slaves would be used for entertainment. Slaves were to be used as household slaves and economical slaves: rome couldn"t survive without a mass amount of slaves. Comment on the moral problems of slavery. Romans saw slaves as not people but as objects. The beheading of st. paul and crucifixion of st. peter.