C C 302 Lecture 16: Lecture 16
4 Jan 2017
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A hostile view of rome and its many cultures (juvenal, satire 3) Juvenal (ad 50-130) - lots of axes to grind. Jewish squatters in the formerly sacred grove of numa (rome"s second king) and those slick greeks. So: rome is not a place for decent folks anymore and juvenal"s friend. Umbricius, who is the speaker in this satire, ha packed up his household and is moving to cumae, the town near naples where aeneas went to the underworld. Mithraism historical development: very typical of a cult in rome. 1500 bc, he is a kind of a rival of the sun god. Main strength: appeal to warrior ethos, fighting for the good. Main weaknesses: cosmogony, a bull story; men only. A goddess for all season: isis, the panthea. Typical of cosmopolitan roman empire and its religious pluralism: from egypt to. Delos (trade hub in aegean sea) to rome to the western provinces. Egypt: resurrects osiris who was killed by set.
