LATN 1001 Chapter 16-18: Latin 1001 Culture Ch 16-18
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The importance of public speaking in roman society is illustrated by the impact of. Young roman men were expected to follow their study of literature under a. Grammaticus with an intense rhetorical education under a rhetoric c. This education consisted of declamationa and practice in public speaking and speech writing d. The region around rome was called latium, the land of the latins or the latin speaking people b. Originally the region consisted of a number of independent towns that organized in the seventh century b. c. into the latin league under the leadership of the town of alba longa. a. i. Rome was not originally part of this league b. It took rome several centuries to bring latium fully under its control and in 90 bc by the. Lex iulia, all the latin peoples gained full roman citizenship. c. The towns of arpinum, tusculum, and formiae described in the last chapter are all in.
