CLA 1102 Lecture 17: Roman Civilization whole semester - some missing
12 Apr 2018
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January 1st- roman console started saturday= saturn"s day. Days of the week have the same days of the week as romans assigned initially. Books, novels, autobiographies, science- ction were invented by the romans. Concrete, cement, arches, dice, city planning, sewers, law (modern law built on roman law), aesthetics. Architecture (neoclassical architecture), time (romans took it from the babylonians), distance (mile= latin for 1,000 paces, inch= 1/12th in latin), ounce (1/12th of a pound in latin) The gods decide to throw a wedding party for them, they invite everyone except eres (latin: discordia). She gets mad and gets a solid gold apple and enscribes on it for the most beautiful woman and throws it into the middle of the party, all the goddesses start ghting over it: Thera (latin: juno, wife of jupiter), athena (goddess of wisdom, latin: minerva), and aphrodite (goddess of love, latin: venus) were the three nalists.
