CLA2104 Lecture 1: The Republic 1 - Sept 9/15 - 14/15

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2104
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Course overview: what we will be covering in this course. 2: tiber, apennines, stenochoria: land hunger: informed greek colonization. Italy; agrarian tradition of romans: ancient time keeping: bc (before christ); bce (before the common. Era); ad (anno domini); ce (common era: in late 6th c. ad bc and ad was formulated by chronographers and chroniclers in order to have a universal system. Before this: ancients used eponymous chronology (year named after most important magistrate). 600,000: stone age (=later part of pleistocene) archaeology: cave sites, nomadic. 4000: neolithic: emergence of agriculture and permanent settlement: 1185: traditional date of fall of troy: aeneas sets off to found lavinium: 1000: first traces of settlement at the site of rome (note that this is not consistent with traditional foundation date). Villanovan, latial and fossa cultures: 800: phoenicians found carthage. 3 c. 775: greeks begin to settle in italy and sicily. 753-509: traditional regal/monarchic period: rome ruled by kings: 750: formation of first city-states.