HIST 1001 : Test 3
Document Summary
Alexandria: jewish bible gets translated into greek, jews in alexandria accepted greek culture, maccabean revolt, remembered by hanukah, revolt of hellenism. Bury their dead with grave goods: gives us look into culture + society. Find evidence that they traded with the greeks. Ordeal with sextus and lucretia causes uprising. This causes people to form an idea of a republic: sextus tarquinius: Wants to sleep with lucretia: threatens to kill her and frame her for sleeping with a slave. Sextus visits and attacks her; forces rape. Means: a thing by the people, a public thing: consuls: Appointed; has supreme power (military and government) Ruled for life: *= can be kicked out of senate; involved in scandal, political or otherwise. Wore special togas with special purple stripes. Consuls ruled in conjunction with the senate. Senators were supposed to be equal but they were not; some were there longer, older, etc: curia: Where senate met in the forum: censors:
