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Roman Civilization23: Flavian Dynasty
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Homework
Read: • Suetonius: Vespasian, Titus, Domitian
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Administrative Stuff
Paper III Outline Due: Thursday, April 14
Midterm II • Thursday, April 28
Paper III • Due: May 10, 5:30 p.m.
Fall Semester: • Greek Civilization
• MW 5:30-6:45 • Registration opens April 18
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Instructions and DetailsPaper III
Paper Outline • Due Thursday, April 14 (next class) • Graded (out of 20 points)
• Topic • Thesis • Outline of major supporting points • List of sources
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Instructions and DetailsPaper III
Paper Outline • Your paper should be approximately 1250-2500 words (5-10 pages),
though you will be graded on writing and content, not length. • You MUST use at least three sources and at least three direct quotes
from your sources. You must use at least one primary source. • The final paper is due May 10, 5:30 p.m., submitted at the beginning of
class. Late papers will not be accepted. There will be no opportunity for re-writes.
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Instructions and DetailsPaper III
Possible topics (but you must find your argument): • Classical Tradition (Ancient Rome in America) • Rebuilding ancient monuments/buildings • Augustus and propaganda • Women in Rome • Death and succession of emperors • Entertainment in Rome (gladiator games) • Christianity • Literature/architecture • Sources: written vs. physical • Rewrite/expand a previous paper
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WorksheetPaper III
Topic:
Thesis:
Major Reason 1:
Major Reason 2:
Major Reason 3:
Sources:
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Julio-Claudians
14 CE0 41 CE37 CE27 BCE 54 CE
Timeline
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (r. 13 October 54 – 9 June 68)
Nero
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July 18–19, 64Great Fire of Rome
Great Fire of Rome • Started July 18-19, 64 • Burned for 5 or 6 days
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Great Fire of Rome
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Great Fire of Rome
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July 18–19, 64Great Fire of Rome
Great Fire of Rome • Causes
• Nero sent drunk men to start the fire. Nero watched from his palace on the Palatine Hill singing and playing the lyre. (Cassius Dio)
• Nero openly sent out men to set fire to the city. Nero watched from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill singing and playing the lyre. (Suetonius)
• Nero sent out men to set fire to the city. Nero sang and played his lyre from a private stage. (Tacitus)
• The fire was an accident. Nero was in Antium. (Tacitus) • The fire was caused by Christians. (Tacitus)
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XV.44—Tacitus
“To dispel the gossip Nero therefore found culprits on whom he inflicted the most exotic punishments. These were people hated for their shameful offenses whom the common people called Christians. The man who gave them their name, Christus, had been executed during the reign of Tiberius by the procurator Pontius Pilate.”
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus GermanicusNero
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Nero and ChristianityNero
Treatment of Christians • Blamed for Great Fire of Rome • Tortured:
• Arrested • Mocked • Crucified • Covered in animal skins, fed to beasts • Dipped in oil, and used as lanterns
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Great Fire of Rome
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Nero 31.1-2—Suetonius
“There was nothing however in which he was more ruinously prodigal than in building. He made a palace extending all the way from the Palatine to the Esquiline, which [he] rebuilt, the Golden House. Its vestibule was large enough to contain a colossal statue of the emperor a hundred and twenty feet high; … There was a pond too, like a sea, surrounded with buildings to represent cities, besides tracts of country, varied by tilled fields, vineyards, pastures and woods, with great numbers of wild and domestic animals. In the rest of the house all parts were overlaid with gold and adorned with gems and mother-of-pearl. There were dining-rooms … fitted with pipes for sprinkling the guests with perfumes. The main banquet hall was circular and constantly revolved day and night, like the heavens. He had baths supplied with sea water and sulphur water.”
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus GermanicusNero
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus GermanicusNero
Death of Nero • Died June 8, 68 at the age of 30 • Last Words:
• "What an artist dies in me." • End of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
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Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian
Year of the Four Emperors
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69 CEYear of the Four Emperors
Galba • Governor of Hispania Terraconensis • Declared himself Caesar and marched on Rome • Reigned: 8 June 68 – 15 January 69 • Murdered by Praetorian Guard
Otho • Reigned: 15 January 69 – 16 April 69 • Suicide
Vitellius • Reigned: 17 April 69 – 20 December 69 • Murdered
Vespasian • Reigned: 21 December 69 – 24 June 79
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Titus Flāvius Caesar Vespasiānus AugustusVespasian
Life of Vespasian • Born: November 17, 9 • Fought in the Jewish Revolt in Judaea • Following the defeat of Vitellius, Vespasian was declared emperor by
the Roman Senate • Began building a massive amphitheater • Died: June 23, 79 • Succeeded by his own natural son, Titus
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Titus Flāvius Caesar Vespasiānus AugustusTitus
Life of Titus • Born December 30, 39 • Jewish-Roman War
• Destruction of Jerusalem
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Western Wall
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Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus AugustusTitus
Life of Titus • Born December 30, 39 • Jewish-Roman War
• Destruction of Jerusalem • Reigned: June 24, 79 – September 13, 81 • Died: September 13, 81 • Deified
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Arch of Titus
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Arch of Titus
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Arch of Titus
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Arch of Titus
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When was it built?
SENATVS
POPVLVSQVE•ROMANVS
DIVO•TITO•DIVI•VESPASIANI•F
VESPASIANO•AVGVSTO
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The Colosseum
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Flavian AmphitheaterColosseum
Construction • Begun in 72 by emperor Vespasian • Completed in 80 by Titus • ‘Colosseum’
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Flavian AmphitheaterColosseum
Capacity • 50,000 - 80,000 people
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Flavian AmphitheaterColosseum
Use • Gladiator contests • Animal Hunts • Re-enactment of battles
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum
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The Forum and Colosseum
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Should the Colosseum (and/or the forum) be rebuilt?
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Building an argumentShould the Colosseum be rebuilt?
Topic: Rebuilding the Colosseum
Thesis:
Major Reason 1:
Major Reason 2:
Major Reason 3:
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Happened during the reign of Titus
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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August 24, 79
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Naples
Gulf of Baiae
Bay of Naples
Capri
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 79
Herculanum
Pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius
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August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Sources • Written
• Pliny the Younger • Physical
• Remains
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Letter 6.16—Pliny the Younger
“My dear Tacitus, You ask me to write you something about the death of my uncle so that the account you transmit to posterity is as reliable as possible. I am grateful to you, for I see that his death will be remembered forever if you treat it. He perished in a devastation of the loveliest of lands, in a memorable disaster shared by peoples and cities, but this will be a kind of eternal life for him.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Letter 6.16—Pliny the Younger
“He was at Misenum in his capacity as commander of the fleet on the 24th of August, when between 2 and 3 in the afternoon my mother drew his attention to a cloud of unusual size and appearance. He had had a sunbath, then a cold bath, and was reclining after dinner with his books … I can best describe its shape by likening it to a pine tree. It rose into the sky on a very long "trunk" from which spread some "branches." I imagine it had been raised by a sudden blast, which then weakened, leaving the cloud unsupported so that its own weight caused it to spread sideways. Some of the cloud was white, in other parts there were dark patches of dirt and ash. The sight of it made the scientist in my uncle determined to see it from closer at hand.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Letter 6.16—Pliny the Younger
“Ash was falling onto the ships now, darker and denser the closer they went. Now it was bits of pumice, and rocks that were blackened and burned and shattered by the fire. Now the sea is shoal; debris from the mountain blocks the shore… Meanwhile, broad sheets of flame were lighting up many parts of Vesuvius; their light and brightness were the more vivid for the darkness of the night … The buildings were being rocked by a series of strong tremors, and appeared to have come loose from their foundations and to be sliding this way and that. Outside, however, there was danger from the rocks that were coming down.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Letter 6.16—Pliny the Younger
“They tied pillows on top of their heads as protection against the shower of rock. It was daylight now elsewhere in the world, but there the darkness was darker and thicker than any night. But they had torches and other lights. They decided to go down to the shore, to see from close up if anything was possible by sea. But it remained as rough and uncooperative as before.
As I understand it, his breathing was obstructed by the dust-laden air, and his innards, which were never strong and often blocked or upset, simply shut down. When daylight came again 2 days after he died, his body was found untouched, unharmed, in the clothing that he had had on. He looked more asleep than dead.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Letter 6.20—Pliny the Younger
“Now came the dust, though still thinly. I look back: a dense cloud looms behind us, following us like a flood poured across the land.
“Let us turn aside while we can still see, lest we be knocked over in the street and crushed by the crowd of our companions.
“We had scarcely sat down when a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like the black of closed and unlighted rooms. You could hear women lamenting, children crying, men shouting.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Letter 6.20—Pliny the Younger
“At last the cloud thinned out and dwindled to no more than smoke or fog. Soon there was real daylight. The sun was even shining, though with the lurid glow it has after an eclipse. The sight that met our still terrified eyes was a changed world, buried in ash like snow. We returned to Misenum and took care of our bodily needs, but spent the night dangling between hope and fear. Fear was the stronger, for the earth was still quaking and a number of people who had gone mad were mocking the evils that had happened to them and others with terrifying prognostications.”
August 24, 79Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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Plinian Eruption
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Mt. St. Helens
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Mt. St. Helens
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Mt. St. Helens
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Mt. St. Helens
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Eyjafjallajökull
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Pompeii
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House of Menander
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Pompeii
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Pompeii Thermopolium
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Pompeii
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Pompeii Baths
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Pompeii Baths, Frigidarium
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Pompeii Baths
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Pompeii, Husband and Wife
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Villa of the Mysteries
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Pompeii Wall Art
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Pompeii Wall Art
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Pompeii Wall Art
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Pompeii Wall Art
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Pompeii Wall Art
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Pompeii Dog Mosaic, “Cave Canem”
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Pompeii Dog
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Pompeii Casts
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Pompeii Casts
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Pompeii Casts