CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Second Catilinarian Conspiracy, Amiternum, Scipionic Circle
7 Apr 2016
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Cla 2103 literary sources of roman history. Aristocraic girls were educated, oten due to their fathers" insistence. History and sources: historiography: wriing of history; study of wriing of history; study of historical tradiion, historicity: historical accuracy, what are the characterisics of roman history, biased, rhetorical (repeiive ideas), romano-centric, didacic, propagandisic, writen by conservaive male senators. I & ii are related because characterisics of roman history cause problems. What are the main types (genres) of roman history: annalisic: organized chronologically; rhetorical, propagandisic; based on: Yearly records: annals: aniquarian: organized themaically; more objecive, based on non-literary evidence (archives, interviews, inscripions) What were their sources: tradiion or literary tradiion = sources, types of sources we have: Extant sources (they exist: you can read them) Secondary citaions (where a writer refers to/quotes another writer whose work is lost) Scholiasts: students of earlier literature --> produced their translaions and emendaions of texts in late aniquity (4-6 c. ce: sources for annalisic histories:
