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Lecture 18 (Final) Flashcards

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Hellenistic Period

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  • death of Alexander to Roman conquest
  • kingdoms across Mediterranean ruled by Alexander’s generals and their descendants
  • much fighting and changing of boundaries
  • east more important than Greece itself
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Periods of Greek History

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  • Minoan
  • Mycenaean
  • Iron
  • Archaic
  • Classical
  • Hellenistic
  • Roman
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Roman Period

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-the period in which the area of Hellenistic kingdoms was ruled by Rome

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Periods of Roman History

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  • monarchy
  • republic
  • empire
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Monarchy

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-ruled by kings

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Republic

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-ruled by senate of wealthiest and oldest men

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Empire

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-ruled by emperor

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Augustus

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  • Rome’s first emperor
  • nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar
  • Allied with marc Anthony to defeat the assassins of Caesar
  • Fought (and won!) a civil war against Antony and his lover, Cleopatra
  • Ended a long period of civil war
  • Established peace and stability by gradually removing the power of the senate, concentrating it into his own hands
  • All readings for this class written under Augustus
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Roman Religion

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  • Formal, ritualized, contractual
  • Offer a sacrifice to ask for something and if it’s not met whoever offered the sacrifice can be punished
  • Primary way of worshipping the gods: Sacrifice
  • Do ut des: “I give so that you might give”
  • State gods (like Olympians) vs. Private gods (lares-gods of your ancestors, penates-gods that protect your foodstuffs)
  • Syncretism with Greek gods/myths
  • Priests elected from the elite class
  • In Imperial period: Emperor serves as Pontifex Maximus (Chief Priest)
  • Most important element: correct practice, NOT faith!
  • just have to keep the gods happy whether you believed in them or not.
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Main Roman Gods

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  • Jupiter
  • Juno
  • Minerva
  • Mars
  • Venus
  • Apollo
  • Mercury
  • Vesta
  • Saturn
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Saturn

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~Kronos

-god of wealth, agriculture, war

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Primary Household Gods

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  • Lares: gods of the family
  • Panates: gods of the pantry
  • Vesta
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Lararium

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  • household shrine to lares

- present in most homes

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Key Aspects of Roman Myth

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  • it combines native Italian, Greek, and other mythological traditions
  • it is securely focused on ROME!
  • it is historical and interested in Rome’s history and development (i.e. myth-history)
  • Unlike Greek myth, it is securely fixed in time and space
  • It is often directed towards political ends
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Publis Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

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  • Born in northern Italy, educated in Rome
  • Lived through the civil wars prior to Augustus’ reign
  • Most popular poet of his day
  • Aeneid his last work, often considered his greatest, commissioned by Augustus
  • We know it will be biased because of this
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Metamorphoses Intro

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  • wants it to seem oral so it can be Rome’s version of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  • tells us this story is about war and about a person involved in war (Aeneas)
  • going to be a long and difficult journey with a god set against him and after the journey he’s going to suffer in war.
  • Juno is his antagonist
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Why is Juno upset?

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  • she’s still mad about the Trojan War and the judgment of Paris
  • mad about Ganymede prince of Troy
  • mad about Carthage
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Intro on Aeneas?

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  • He’s “a man remarkable for goodness”
  • pious
  • selfless
  • very different type of Hero than we’ve seen before
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Cartage

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  • North African city
  • Major empire during the Roman Republic period
  • Fought a series of three brutal wars with Rome: the Punic Wars
  • Rome won, emerged as a dominant power in the Mediterranean
  • Juno wanted to defend her favorite city because she knew it was going to be destroyed
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Beginning of Action

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  • Juno sends a hurricane and blows them off course to Carthage
  • en medias res
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Aeneas’ defender?

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  • Venus who goes to Jupiter to deal with it because Aeneas is her son
  • Jupiter tells her Aeneas’ fate and the fate of all the Romans.
  • talks about Romulus and Remus
  • talks about foundation of the city
  • Aeneas will prevail
  • says the Roman empire will cover everything though all time and won’t end
  • Julius Caesar and Augustus (Julius’ adopted son) will be at the head of it.
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Dido

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-mythological founder and queen of Carthage

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