CLARCH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Microsoft Powerpoint, Hypocaust, Greco-Persian Wars
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Fagin & yegul are both secondary sources. People like herodotus who are in the persian wars but wrote their book using people who were there are considered a primary source. What is a bathhouse: external activities: recreational sports (wheel and stick, etc. Drinking (even alcohol: sex: prostitution, fagin & yegul disagree. Yegul thinks there was less nudity, came from a conservative society, pg. Roman empire fell, and the owers were supposed to be perfume at weddings (moral is: have to think in context, we take out. Arch: architecture technique to create height and manipulate weight above. Arch + column gives you height to open space up and carry / disperse weights. Romans used arches in colosseums, open spaces (rounded, curved ceilings), domes, aqueducts (aqueduct bridges) Romans could give water to a city of 1,000,000 people; renaissance could only do so for 75,000 people. Martial, epigrams 6:93; 9:33: ethnically spanish, wait until next week
