11 Ancient Notebook – CITY OF ROME
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Student name:
Class:
11 Ancient History
Topic title:
Part II – The City of Rome in the late Republic
Year / term:
Term 3, 2011
File location:
Year 11 School Work / Ancient History / Part 2 Rome
Section 1
Contents
Section 2
Introduction
Section 3
Assessment details
Section 4
Homework Summaries
Section 5
Maps of Rome
Section 6
Sources for Rome
Section 7
Founding of Rome
Section 8
Geography of Rome & the Cloaca Maxima
Section 9
Housing
Section 10
Forum Romanum
Section 11
Laws & Commerce
Section 12
Religion
Section 13
Administration & Government
Section 14
Daily Life & Entertainment
Section 15
Significant Buildings of Rome
Section 16
Extras
Section 17
Exam Preparation
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
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2 Introduction
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A few ideas on the city of Rome (copy notes down from your teacher’s
explanation).
Links
 11 Ancient History Home Page (SPCC Wiki):
https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/ancienthistory11eastm2011ancienthomepage/
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City of Rome Topic Page (SPCC Wiki):
https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/ancienthistory11eastm2011ancienthomepage/wiki/16176/City_of_Rome_i
n_the_Late_Republic.html
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Historiapedia (SPCC Wiki):
https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/historyeastm2011historiapedia/
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Ancient Rome in Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/rome/
Wiki on City of Rome (old SPCC site):
https://wiki.spcc.nsw.edu.au/index.php/START_PAGE_-_Rome
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3 Assessment Details
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2011 Assessment for this topic
Task Timing
Weighting
Description of Task
Course Content
Outcomes
Term 3, Week 4
20%
Source Analysis Task
Rome
P3.3, P3.4, P3.5, P4.2
Term 3, Week 9
30%
Preliminary Course Examination
All Topics
All outcomes except P3.6, P3.1
Copy & paste details of your Source Analysis Task below
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4 Homework Summaries
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SYLLABUS CONTENT I NEED TO
WORDS, NAMES, DATES, PLACES etc.
RELATED SUMMARIES TO
KNOW & UNDERSTAND
WORTH MEMORISING
COMPLETE
INTRODUCTION, HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- Romulus & Remulus
DUE MONDAY WEEK 3
& ARCHAEOLOGY
- Tiber
Ch. 16 of your text Antiquity1, pp.240-251
- the geographical features: rivers, hills, marshes
- Campus Martius
(Macbook pp.248-259)
GEOGRAPHY & INFRASTRUCTURE
- 7 Hills of Rome (Palatine, Aventine, Capitoline
- the geographical features: rivers, hills, marshes
etc.)
- the water system, drains: Cloaca Maxima
- Forum Romanum
- the Forum Romanum: the Via Sacra (road)
- Via Sacra
THE FORUM & COMMERCE
- Subura
- activities in the Forum: politics, administration,
- Insula
religion, courts, theatre, gladiatorial displays,
- Cloaca Maxima
triumphs, speeches, funerals
- Aqueducts
- Juvenal
- Suetonius
WEEK 4 – Prepare for Test
ADMINISTRATION & GOVERNMENT
- The Regia, Curia, Rostra, Tabularium & Comitium
DUE MONDAY WEEK 5
- the Forum Romanum: the Via Sacra (road)
- Temples of Vesta & Saturn
Ch. 16 of your text Antiquity1, pp.252-262
the Regia, Temple of Vesta, the Curia, Temple of
- The Basilicas Aemilia & Julia
(Macbook pp.260-270)
Saturn, Basilica Aemilia, Basilica Julia, the
- Circus Flaminius
Rostra, the Tabularium, the Comitium: main
- Villa Publica
features and purposes of the buildings
- Altar of Mars
- activities in the Forum: politics, administration,
- Pompey’s Theatre
religion, courts, theatre, gladiatorial displays,
- Lares
triumphs, speeches, funerals
- Penates
DAILY LIFE & ENTERTAINMENT
- Polytheism
- activities in the Forum: politics, administration,
- Jupiter
religion, courts, theatre, gladiatorial displays,
- Mars
triumphs, speeches, funerals
- Venus
- the area of the Campus Martius: buildings:
- Jupiter
Circus Flaminius, Villa Publica, Altar of Mars;
- Pontifex Maximus
Pompey’s theatre, military training ground
- Res Publica
- The Circus Maximus: main features and uses
- Senate
- Equestrians
- Nobiles
- Optimates
- Populares
- Client-patron relationship
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- Consuls
- Plebeians
- Cursus Honorum
EXAM TOPICS
Lists of the following from each topic
DUE MONDAY WEEK 7
Core Topic: History, Archaeology and Science
- Key historical characters
Reading / Viewing: The how to study
Case Study 1: Ancient Human Remains
- Important events
guides & videos on Mr. East’s blog page
Case Study 6: Homer and the Trojan War
- Historical words / definitions
Summarising: Study notes (ready to
Option 13: The City of Rome in the Late
- Ancient sources / archaeological sources
show Mr. East)
Republic
- Historians / Archaeologists / “schools of thought”
and their ideas
- Quotes
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5 Maps of Rome
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Locate & paste a map of Italy showing the location of Rome below.
Comment on each of the maps below based on the explanations of your
teacher.
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6 Sources
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Cut & paste the points below to fit under the following headings (see also
Antiquity1 p.244).
Comments from Ancient Sources on the city of Rome
Archaeological Evidence on the city of Rome
Ideas of Modern Historians on the city of Rome
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From this Wallace-Hadrill concluded that "this find is exciting
because we know very little about Rome's early history before
the traditional date of its foundation".
A. Butterworth & R. Lawrence - describe everyday life in the
forum and Subura (the poorest area of Rome)
Livy, Book 5, 54.4, - describes the strategic suitability of the
location of Rome
Plautus, Curculio 466-482, describes the "seedy" side of life in
the forum
Until recently, archaeologists have agreed with the date that the
Romans believed was when their city was founded (April 21st,
753BC). This belief was supported by evidence from radiocarbon
dating (amount of remaining carbon14 isotopes in an object) and
dendrochronology (tree ring sequencing found in timber).
Plutarch, Pompey, 45, describes the triumph (victory parade) of
Pompey through the streets of Rome
Macrobius, Saturmalia, 1.8, describes the usage of the Temple
of Saturn as a public treasury
Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 40.48, describes events at
different locations in the city of Rome
Stabo, Geography, Book 5.3.8, describes the drains and sewers
of Rome
Plautus, Curculio 466-482, describes the crowds in the forum in
the 2nd century BC
Virgil, Aeneid, writes of the mythology of the origins of Rome
Velleius Paterculus, Roman Histories, writes about the
completion of the building of the theatre of Pompey
T. Mommsen (a famous German historian) - argues that the
Tiber River was critical to the founding of Rome
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However, two findings in 2006, the remains of an ancient
priest and a a female skeleton found under the forum, with
jewellery and a funerary urn. These were dated to circa 1000 BC.
Ovid, Fasti, Book 6, 401-6 - describes the marshy land that
existed before the forum was built on top
Suetonius, Caesar, 37, 51, describes the triumphs (victory
parades) of Julius Caesar through the streets of Rome
J. Gilbert - explains how Castor and Pollux came to be
worshipped
However, this does not mean the city was bulit before the
Romans claimed, only that there were people in area before the
city was built.
Cicero, On the Republic (in Latin = "De Re Publica") - describes
the location of Rome on the Tiber
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7 Founding of Rome
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Take notes from your teacher’s explanation here and add important dates
in the table below.
Date
Event
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8 Cloaca Maxima
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Take notes from your teacher’s explanation here.
Visit the websites below & make notes relating to the Cloaca
Maxima.
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http://www.vroma.org/~jruebel/cloaca.html
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http://www.sewerhistory.org/articles/wh_era/agrippa/agrippa.htm
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http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Cloaca.html).
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Now, read the bottom of p. 241 and pp. 260-261 of your text
(MacBook pages 248, 268-269) and answer the following
questions.
1. What disease did Romans risk building the city near marshy
swampland?
2. What man-made device brought “rivers” of water into the city (see
Strabo)?
3. What was the Cloaca Maxima and where was it located?
4. What did and what did not flow through it?
5. What amazing event does Cicero retell about the Cloaca Maxima?
6. Do you agree or disagree with Strabo’s (an Ancient Greek) admiration
of the Romans?
7. Now get online, try to find some maps of the Cloaca Maxima (such as
from: www.vroma.org/~jruebel/cloaca.html ) and trace these on your
own map of Rome.
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9 Housing
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Comment on each of the pictures below based on the explanations of your
teacher.
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10 Forum Romanum
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1. Make notes here based on your teacher’s explanation.
2. Comment on each of the pictures below based on the
explanations of your teacher.
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3. Now visit this website (http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/District/324685) and
make additional notes to share with the class.
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11 Law & Commerce
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1. Make notes here based on your teacher’s explanation.
2. In groups, as organised by your teacher, research one of the
buildings below (using www.vroma.org/~forum/forum.html and other sources) and
provide details on an Historiapedia wiki page
(https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/historyeastm2011historiapedia).
 Temple of Saturn
 Basilica Aemilia
 Basilica Julia
3. Now, using the completed information on the Historiapedia site,
fill out details for all 3 buildings on page 15 on this notebook.
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12 Religion
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PANTHEON OF ROMAN GODS
1. Find out about at least 10 gods worshiped by the Ancient
Romans and fill out the table below.
GOD
IMAGE
TEMPLE(S) IN ROME
FUNCTIONS
Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
god of the sky
Temple of Jupiter Victor
King of the gods
(Greek
equilavent in
brackets)
Jupiter (Zeus)
Temple of Jupiter Slater
Mars (Ares)
Saturn
Concordia
Castor & Pollux
Venus
(Aphrodite)
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INTERESTING INFORMATION
Juno (Hera)
Vesta (Hestia)
Vulcan
(Hephaestus)
Nepture
(Poseidon)
Minerva (Athena)
Mercury
(Hermes)
Diana (Artemis)
Bacchus
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Janus
Tiberinus
Lares
Penates
Fortuna
2. Make notes here based on your teacher’s explanation.
3. In groups, as organised by your teacher, research one of the
buildings below (using www.vroma.org/~forum/forum.html and other sources) and
provide details on an Historiapedia wiki page
(https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/historyeastm2011historiapedia).
 The Regia
 Temple of Vesta
4. Now, using the completed information on the Historiapedia site,
fill out details for all 3 buildings on page 15 on this notebook.
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13 Administration & Government
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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS IN LATE REPUBLICAN ROME
1. Makes notes from your teacher’s explanation beneath the
diagram.
2. Annotate the diagram below as your teacher goes through it.
LATIN
ENGLISH
DEFINITION
RES PUBLICA
The Republic
The Roman people, it’s government and laws (between the time of the kings and the emperors).
Senate
The most powerful decision making body in Rome which met in the Curia. 600 men who were the heads
of the wealthiest and most powerful families of Rome. Debate was led by consuls and former consuls
before a vote was held (where Senators would stand behind the speaker they supported).
EQUITES
Equestrians
Families that had become wealthy from business and trade.
(Knights)
Families with senators (including wealthy Plebeian families), formed the elite of Rome. They were
NOBILES
banned from trade & business dealings. Their wealth came from large farms (latifundia).
OPTIMATES
Conservative nobiles, often Patricians, who wanted to protect the current arrangement of society. They
dominated the politics of Rome.
POPULARES
Nobiles, many being Plebeians, who were interested in social reform. Some were only interested in
using the poor to advance their political career.
Voting
The People’s Assembly (concilium plebis) of the Plebs had the right to meet and pass laws of their own.
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Assemblies
The Patricians has their own body as well, known as the comitia trubuta, together they formed the Tribal
Assembly of Rome.
Patron – Client
Where rich citizens helped the poorer in exchange for political support
relationship
Censors
2 officials who kept a register or census of citizens, awarded government building contracts and put a
stop to any “immoral” behaviour
Dictator
A special titled awarded to Sulla, Julius Caesar and most emperors that place them above the Senate
and the Consuls.
Consuls
2 Consuls elected every year as the heads of Government. Could “veto” the other’s decision. One
Consul commanded the army, the other remained in Rome. Followed by 12 lictors wherever they went,
carrying the fasces (steel rods & axe). Rods to punish in Rome, axes to behead outside of Rome.
PRAETOR
An elected judge and city administrator. They were one rank below Consul.
AEDILE or QEDILE
An elected official responsible for roads, drains, buildings, games, markets, food & water supply
LEGATE
Carried various military functions outside of Rome such as an assistant to a Consul, foreign
ambassador, governor of a province
TRIBUNE
Tribune of the
8 men elected by the Plebeians, had the right to veto any decision made by any person in political office.
Plebs
However, they nearly always came from the wealthy families of Rome.
QUAESTOR
An official who was responsible for government finances, or as a state prosecutor in criminal cases.
PLEBEIAN
Romans without an aristocratic background. 1/3rd were slaves
CURSUS
A law in 180BC determined the minimum age and the order in which you could hold political positions.
HONORUM
The order was 1 Quastor, 2 Qedile, 3 Praetor and 4 Consul.
VETO
I forbid
3. Make notes here based on your teacher’s explanation.
4. In groups, as organised by your teacher, research one of the
buildings below (using www.vroma.org/~forum/forum.html and other sources) and
provide details on an Historiapedia wiki page
(https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/historyeastm2011historiapedia).
 The Curia
 The Rostra
 The Tabularium
 The Comitium
 Villa Publica (on the Campus Martius)
5. Now, using the completed information on the Historiapedia site,
fill out details for all 3 buildings on page 15 on this notebook.
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14 Daily Life & Entertainment
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1. Make notes here based on your teacher’s explanation.
2. In groups, as organised by your teacher, research one of the
buildings below (using www.vroma.org/~forum/forum.html and other sources) and
provide details on an Historiapedia wiki page
(https://wiki.waratah.spcc.nsw.edu.au/groups/historyeastm2011historiapedia).
 Circus Flaminius
 Pompey’s Theatre
 Circus Maximus
3. Now, using the completed information on the Historiapedia site,
fill out details for all 3 buildings on page 15 on this notebook.
4. Role Play: gladiatorial game:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_gladiator.shtml
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15 Significant Buildings of Rome
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Basilica Aemilia
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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Basilica Julia
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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Temple of Saturn
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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The Regia
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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Temple of Vesta
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
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Interesting things about the building:
Location:
Curia (The Senate House)
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
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What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
Rostra (speakers platform)
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
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Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
The Comitium (meeting place)
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
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Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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The Circus Flaminius
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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Pompey’s Theatre
When was it built (if known):
What it used to look like
What it looks like today
Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
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Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
The Circus Maximus
When was it built (if known):
What is used to look like
What it looks like today
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Who built it (if known):
What was its purpose:
What activities took place there:
Quotes from ancient sources (if any found):
Interesting things about the building:
Location:
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16 Extras
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1. Group mapping task: Teacher projects a map of Rome on the screen
with large poster sheets attacked. Students working together locate with
thick texters the location of the 7 hills, walls, Tiber, major buildings etc.
2. Wiki notes on your chosen district of Rome (class task to be
marked) Each student is to select one district of Rome (but not the same
as any other member of the class). On the appropriate Wiki page describe
your district of Rome (summarising much of what we have learned in this
unit). The table below outlines some of the things you should include in
your description. You must give references to websites used but feel free
to add pictures and other relevant information.
AVENTINE
CAELIAN
CAPITOLIN
ESQUILINE
PALATIUM
QUIRINAL
VIMINAL
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CAMPUS
FORUM
SUBURA
MARTIUS
Volunteer
Description of area
Map locations of buildings referred to
People who
Plebeians
Plebeians
Equestrians
Senators
Plebeians
Plebeians
Soldiers
Plebeians
lived there
Slaves
Slaves
Plebeians
Equestrians
Slaves
Slaves
Plebeians
Slaves
Slaves
Housing
Facilities
Roads
Slaves
Insula
Insula
Insula
Roman
Insula
Insula
Roman
Roman
Roman
Roman
houses
Roman
Roman
houses
houses
houses
houses
houses
houses
Appian
Appian
Fortress /
Aqueduct
Aqueduct
Appian Way
Appian Way
City walls
Cloaca
Cloaca
Arx / Citadel
Marcian
Maxima
Maxima
of Rome
Aqueduct
Sacred Way
City walls
City walls
Insula
Subura Way
Subura Way
Subura Way
Sacred Way
Temples
Entertainme
Circus
Temple of
Temple of
Temple of
Temple of
Jupiter
Jupiter
Quirinus
Juno Lucina
Capitolinus
Victor
Temple of
Temple of
Saturn
Magna
Temple of
Mater
Juno
Hut of
Moneta
Romulus
Bath houses
Bath houses
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Altar of Mars
Temple of
Vesta
Theatre of
nt
Maximus
Pompey
Circus
Flaminius
Commercial
Forum of
Julius
Caesar
Basilica
Sempronica
Basilica
Aemilia
Government
Villa Publica
Curia
Tabularium
3. Empathy / Presentation on your chosen district of Rome (class
task to be marked)
in response to a quote from Plutarch, Moralia 559 “The city is like a living
thing … a united and continous whole”, write a picture story titled “a day
in Rome”. Create a character from Republican Rome (a slave, a Senator,
a domestic dog, a Roman god) and describe a day’s activity in the district
of Rome you have chose. Your story should be historically plausible (likely
to have happened back then) and should include pictures of places you
visit and activities you observed.
3. Online Role Play inside the City of Rome
Complete the online activity at: http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/SPQR/GamePage
4. Research: As the main focus for research, select one of the following
topics to research, providing a well-structured written text of 1000 words,
based on evidence:
a. women of Republican Rome
b. Roman theatre
c. a typical Roman political career
d. Roman baths
e. slavery in Rome.
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