• Founding of Rome:
• legend
• reality
• Kingship (753-509 BC)
• Examples of Etruscan influence
• Why did the kingship end according to legend? Is there any historical basis for the legend?
• The Republic (508-42 BC)
• Government: Functions, etc. of Consul, Praetor, Quaestor, Aedile, Censor, Tribune, the Senate, the Assemblies (as a whole)
• Development/Spread (508-264)
• key to spread?
• 3 ways they treated those they conquered
• suffered a major setback at the hands of whom, when?
• Conquest of Mediterranean (264-133 BC)
• why did they fight Carthage?
• whom did they defeat in the East after they defeated Carthage?
• know the new system for treating those they conquered
• what was effect of these conquests on the Roman state?
• The end of the Republic (133-42 BC)
• what solution did the Gracchi propose to the probems the Roman state was having? Results?
• What solution did Marius effect? Results?
• Who were Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, Caesar & Brutus and what was their significance?

• Key terms: animism, pax deorum, pietas, cultus deorum
• Major elements of religious practice: sacrifice, prayer, vow, divination
• Major priests/priestesses: Pontifices, Vestal Virgins, Flamines, augurs
• Deities of the home: Lares, Penates, Janus, Vesta, Manes
• Festivals: Ambarvalia, Robigalia, Lupercalia, Saturnalia

• City Life: What are the pro's and con's of life in the city of Rome?

 
• Slavery
• Sources for slaves?
• Owned by?
• Occupations?
• Treatment? Of slaves in the mines, in farms, in the city? Differences based on occupation? On gender? On nationality? Other?
• "upper" class/management slaves: qualities of, job duties, perks
• Revolts (Eunus and Spartacus--reasons for the revolts, what happened during the revolt, how did the revolts end; any effects from the revolts?)
• Freedpersons:
• Reasons for manumission?
• Restrictions on freedom of freedpersons? Restrictions on freedoms of children of freedpersons?
• Roman attitudes towards freedpersons? consistent?
• Occupations?
• Relations with former master (now patron)
• responsibilities to former master
• how does naming work?
• limitations on what former master can expect
• responsibilities of former masters
• cordial relations? strained relations?

1. Politics: An aid to President Bush recently noted "Every silver lining has a cloud" (NPR: AIDS Funding, 2/11/03). Examine the Roman policy towards those whom they defeated/conquered between 509 and 49 BC with regard to that quote, i.e. delineate, in your discussion, what the "silver lining(s)" of the Roman policy was(were) and what the "cloud(s)" was(were). As usual, make sure you give a plethora of pertinent facts/examples to back up your conclusions (use Shelton, Kebric, Scarre, and/or class notes as your sources of information).

2. Slaves & Freedpersons: An aid to President Bush recently noted "Every silver lining has a cloud" (NPR: AIDS Funding, 2/11/03). Compare and contrast the lot of slaves and the lot of freedpersons with regard to that quote. Make sure you give a plethora of pertinent facts/examples from the readings in Shelton and Kebric to back up your conclusions and that these are based on a variety of authors/sources.

3. Religion: An aid to President Bush recently noted "Every silver lining has a cloud" (NPR: AIDS Funding, 2/11/03). Examine the advantages and disadvantages of Roman religion for the "average" Roman with regard to that quote. Make sure you give a plethora of pertinent facts/examples from the readings to back up your conclusions and that these are based on a variety of authors/sources.