CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Quirites, Infertility, Matronalia
26 Apr 2016
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The roman vision: greek myth and roman realities. Different peoples in rome with different languages and customs. Rome: area of latium, area was latin. Etruscans: colonized northern part of italy and area in campina. Sabines, samnites, venetians, greek colonies (also in sicily), but north africa and corsica and. Italy was made of different people, all indo-european except the etruscans, not an indo-european. Able to read etruscan because used the greek alphabet, but because not much text left, difficult to understand the structure and grammar of the language. Little by little, rome was able to conquer at first the area around city around latium, then all the of italian peninsula, and extended the power in modern spain and africa. Can understand different traditions, and elements which were then influencing the romans because of all of these contacts. What is characteristic of roman culture: presence of eclecticism, mostly greek and etruscan influence, visible in.
