CLA371H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arval Brethren, Pontifex Maximus, Dea Dia
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Grading scheme: class attendance and participation (20%, midterm exam (20%) right before reading week, essay based. Feb. 15: presentations (10%, essay (proposal 10%, final paper 40%) Make a rough draft and talk it over with professor. Course readings: no textbook, all readings to be posted on blackboard. Research essay: any topic relating to course material, 50% of final mark, 5 primary, 5 secondary sources, more trips on writing and finding sources next week. Fratres arvales: c. 160 ce, lucius verus: cult. Agricultural deity named dea dia and was associated with the harvest and crops: rehabilitated by augustus. In the case of this cult, augustus saw it as a way to reshape and refashion piety during this period. He really needed to show he was interested in restoring everything that was good in the republic, one of his tools = reinstitute religion, reshape or recreate, revive things that had died out, particularly in late republic.
