01:510:304 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:304
• Professor: Figueira

Document Summary

; other archives; laws (12 tables) & treaties; prayers & formulae (language problems): antiquarian tradition. Literary sources: greek historiography: impinged on 4th-century hist. Flamininus, l. aemilius paullus: annalistic tradition: q. fabius pictor, in greek (c. 200); l. calpurnius piso. Aelius tubero: q. ennius, annales (>punic wars & 2nd-century conflicts, culminates in livy (ab urbe condita: 63 bc to 14 ad), 142 bks. (35 ext. ): 1-10 (>293); his moral outlook: dionysius of halicarnassus. Roman antiquities. (11/20: >443) derives from annalists & earlier greeks: m. porcius cato (234-148), origines: political perspectives, antiquarian tradition (from 2nd cent. ): l. aelius stilo; m. terentius varro (116-27); 490 books; encyclopedic learning (antiquitates: 41 bks. ); many contemporaries (l. cincius); m. verius flaccus (excerpted by festus); used by convivial writers; plutarch questiones romanae; ideological outlook. Archaeology (chronology): sites: urban & sanctuary, graves; votive deposits. Role of archaeological dating, in which note exotic items.