HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: True Life, Three Cities, Fokker E.Ii
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Cities and civilization: a tale of three cities, troy, carthage and rome a. i. Carthage is the only city appears with vividness a. i. 1. a. i. 2. a. i. 3. Cities place you want to be a. iii. How fortunate are those whose walls already rise aeneas b. i. b. ii. What makes carthage attracting is that it is a city b. iii. Walls refers to the entire city as an object. Aeneas does not care about the idealized country life b. iii. 1. moenia = wall in latin b. iii. 1. a. The wall that encircles the entire city b. iv. Capsule summary of a city: the city and the countryside, vocabularies a. i. Civis (citizen: the only true life is in city b. i. Wide range of food, clothings, consumer goods b. ii. b. iii. b. iv. City provides more complex human interaction that makes human truly civilized: vocabularies c. i. Sub-urbs (suburbs, area immediately around a city) c. ii. Later: a follower of traditional roman religion) c. ii. 1. a.
