[HUMA 3110] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (26 pages long!)
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Still far from objective: writes from a republican attitude. Two types of histories in the roman world: history. Must have lived in the events, a narration: annals. A year by year recording of the events. Cicero made many speeches and subsequently published them: useful for looking at the rise of augustus. Audience is important when reading speeches: a pro-hillary speech at a trump rally would not go over well. Excellent for looking at opinions on what was going on in the empire o. 106bc-43 bc o: wrote a number of speeches. 100-44 bc: gallic war and civil war. Two mythical stories: aeneas and the trojan war o. This settlement would later go on to found rome. You can learn from the past and emulate it for your country: at the beginning, rome was great and incredibly moral o. In levi"s time, the people are too greedy and ruining the empire.
