[Classical Studies 1000] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 232 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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What sources can we use: physical, texts: the greeks and romans left a lot of texts which give insight into their values. This is different because many areas did not develop texts such as these. These are useful because they give us insight from the inside. Bce we are counting down towards 0 (ex. Ad we are counting away from 0. The romans brought a certain amount of order to this problem. Julian calendar: the basis for our gregorian calendar; the calendar that caesar gave us had 10 months and then two more months were added under augustus (july for julius, august for. This is why september isn(cid:495)t really the seventh month(cid:524: we use the names of these months still today. Olympics in 776 bce, founding of rome in 763/2bce, the trojan war 1183/2 bce) (6) often time was expressed in terms of generations; a generation was a rough estimate of time that was often around 30 years.
