CAS HI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rhetoric, Ancient Greek Comedy, Populares
16 Oct 2016
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The decline and fall of the roman republic: from universal culture to universal empire: rome after the second punic war. Rome vs. macedon as protector of the greeks. The partition of macedon and destruction of corinth. The destruction of carthage in the third punic war. (cid:862)a glorious (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, poly(cid:271)ius; (cid:271)ut i ha(cid:448)e a dread fore(cid:271)odi(cid:374)g that so(cid:373)eday the sa(cid:373)e doo(cid:373) (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e pro(cid:374)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)ed o(cid:374) (cid:373)y o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try(cid:863) After defeat of macedon, rome established oligarchies in greek cities. Deeply unpopular, reflected roman sense of political order. Romans took up greek religion, education, philosophy (especially stoicism), and art. The civic institutions of the polis also took root in the roman hegemony. Romans feared that greek traits would weaken traditional roman values. The love-hate relationship is best seen in cato the censor (d. 149 bce), who railed against greek influence while using greek rhetoric in his speeches. Main pantheon: well-behaved cousins of the greeks. The rock of cybele and new cults.
