HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Punic Wars, Lineage Ii, Mos Maiorum
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November 28, 2017: importance of rome in western culture, longevity, grand impact on western culture: christianity, memory, and natural law. Christianity: universalizing, memory, remembered with awe and fondness after collapse, natural law, polis = very localized, as it expanded needed unifying theory, natural law theory// god"s law, allowed for universalizing politics, foundation: cultural influences, myth, and kings, mythical. Founding myths tend to show values of a culture: historical. Plebeians =everyone else, not necessarily poor: republican class system: a hierarchy with some mobility; enforced by the censors. 3-6 variously: different middle classes: proletari (landless, money=less urban population. Slaves: obsession with order, patriarchy and pater familias, oldest living male in household. = autocrat of family: literally power of life and death. Cling to old traditions and habits: status: dignitas, use money to make you look good in front of people, what counted was the reverence of you by others. Couldn"t actually pass laws: different functions, roman ttribunes.
