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Fatum& • “that&which&has&spoken”&link&to&authoritative&speech,&prophecy&(ex.Jupiter)& & Pietas:&& • duty,&godliness&linked&with&&lack&of&material&wealth& & Nisus&and&Euryyalus& • two&friends&sent&to&sent&report&of&Latin&movements&to&Aeneas& • find&entire&Latin&army&asleep&and&slaughter&many&great&captains& • eventually&captured&and&killed& • heads&put&on&stakes&by&Trojans&and¶ded&before&Trojan&fortress& & Turnus& • lord&of&nearby&kingdom&of&Latium,&& • most&eligible&as&husband&of&Lavinia&before&Aeneas& • prophecy&tells&king&to&marry&his&daughter&to&a&foreigner& • battles&Aeneas&but&ends&up&losing& & Campus&Martius& • space&outside&pomerium&(sacred&boundary&of&city)&used&for&military&exercises&and& voting&assemblies& • old&republican&practice&of&using&one’s&wealth&for&public&good&while&memorializing& own&name& • express&abstract¬ion&of&restoration&of&Republic&by&physically&beautifying&city& • allow&elite&high&class&to&choose&images&to&represent&change&in®ime& & Pudor& modesty,&sexual&chastity& & Laudatio&Turiae& • funeral&eulogy&for&women&named&Turia& • highlight&traditional&virtues& & Marriage&law& • allowed&marriage&between&freed&and&freeborn&except&senator&families& • limited&right&to&inherit&by&will&for&unmarried& • rewarded&for&having&childen,&tutors&removed& & Adultery&law& • right&of&husband&and&father&to&kill&adulterer&at×& • threat&of&being&prosecuted& & Manumission&law& • limited&number&of&slaves&master&could&free&at&1&time&

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prescribed&minimum&ages&for&master&and&slave&at&manumission& restriction&on&automatic&citizenship&(Latin&status&as&halfway&citizenship)& implications&for&deployment&of&familia&to&achieve&goals&of&elite&families&

& *return&to&old&fashioned&Roman&values,&give&state&power&that&had&previously&been&of& paterfamilias& & familia&censari& • slaves&and&freedman&function&almost&as&civil&servants& & imperial&family& • excellent&ex&of&political&alliances&and&succession&through&marriage& • building&on&traditional&model&of&elitehousehold&as&both&public&and&private& • desire&to&assure&succession&of&political&power&within&family&has&effect&of&giving& unusual&power&to&women,&slaves,&freedman&and&children& & multiPcentered&Roman&religion& • made&up&of&multiple&separate&cults&and&forms&of&worship& • each&person&engages&in&many&distinct&activities&at&every&level& • worship&varies&by&location,&origin,&status& • enormous&diversity&of&religious&conception&and&action&in&empire& & secular&games& • Ludi&Saeculares& • Organized&by&quindecimviri&(15&men&performing&religious&practice)& • Wide&range&of&goods&honored& • Combine&elements&of&tradition&of&consulting&sacred&books&and&innovation& & Lares&Augusti& • Lares&are&household&gods&perhaps&associated&with&spirit&of&dead&ancestors& • Genius&is&protective&spirit&of&paterfamilias&which&protect&household& • Augustus&reorganized&city&and&each&of&wards&had&its&own&cult&of&Lares&Augusti&and& Genius&Augusti& • Symbolism&implies&Roman&people&as&whole&are&within&household&of&Augustus¬ion& that&leader&himself&is&divine&in&some&way& & Tacitus& • Career&as&orator,&praetor&and&suffect,&form&provincial&elite& & Maiestas& • Maiestas&minuta=treason& • Many&offences&happen&in&private,& • Reliance&on&delator&(informers)&for&prosecution& &

Sejuanus& • Praetorian&guard& • Sonof&distinguished&military&man&but¬&politically&or&socially&elevated& • Example&of&power&of&army&and&insinuation&of&outsiders&into&inner&circle&of&power& • Executed&after&being&denounced&by&Tiberius&to&the&senate& & Nero& • Became&emperor&after&Claudius&died& • Influenced&by&mother&Agrippina&the&Younger& • Rumor&of&incest& • Called&‘ward’&emperor&who&cannot&act&without&permission&form&his&mom& & World&Upside&Down& • Emperor&intends&to&go&abroad&as&singer¬&general&and&win&acclaim&of&his&citizens& • Golden&House&built&to&mimic&natural&countryside& • Trust&germans&more&than&romans& • Performers&of&very&low&status& & The&Great&Fire& • Chiristians&scapegoated& • Characterized&by&hated&of&mankind& • Execution&made&into&public&spectacle& • Evidence&of&Nero’s&cruelty& • Golden&House&built&on&ruins,&later&turned&into&public&park&by&Flavians& & Pisonian&Conspiracy& • Gaius&Piso&who&was&exiled&recalled&by&Claudius& • Stirred&into&action&by&freedwoman&Epicharis& • Same&flows&as&Nero’s&court&itself:&luxury,&disloyalty,&petty&jealousness& • Suicides&of&Epicharis&and&Seneca&show&valor&and&loyalty&demonstrated&by& freedwoman&and&high&ranking&well&educated&man&of&elite& • Preview&of&power&of&army&in&making&emperors& & Stoicism& • Founded&by&Zeno&in&Athens& • Emphasis&on&attaining&true&knowledge&of&the&nature&of&the&world&including& unbending&laws&of&nature&and&fate&and&operating&on&that&knowledge&with&rigorous& logic& • Should&live&in&accordance&with&nature& • Exert&reason&to&understand&nature&and&guide&our&behavior& • Virtuously,&virtue=only&good,&lack&of&virtue=only&evil& • Indifferent&to&money,&power& & Christianity&

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Used&to&worship&at&home&so&limited&record,&most&evidence&from&Christian&writers& describing&earlier&period,&knowledge&of&opponents&from"es& More&in&Eastern&empire& Variety&of&practices,°ree&and&kind&of&separation&form&nonPChristians& Seen&as&superstitio&as&a&cult&by&Roman&sources& Women&earlier&adopters,&men&of&senatorial&rank&among&last,&slaves&freedman&poor& better&represented&than&elite&

& Pliny& • Known&as&pliny&the&younger&because&uncle&was&also&a&writer& • Contemporary&and&friend&of&Tacitus& • Senator&and&orator& • Known&for&his&collection&of&literary&letters&written&specifically&for&wider&circulation& & Apuleius& • Member&of&provincial&elite& • Platonic&philosopher& • Virtuogo&orator& • Prosecuted&for&magic&in&connection&with&his&marriage&to&a&older&wealthy&widow& • Figure&of&second&sophistic& & Augustine& • Orator&and&teacher&of&rhetoric&at&Rome&and&Milan& • Studied&in&Carthage& • Baptized&and&returned&to&Africa&and&became&priest&and&bishop& • Numerous&letters&and&sermons& • Influenced&by&Cicero& • Through&bishop&of&Milan&had&strong&context&with&neoPPlatonism& • Relation&with&Monicheanism&(off&shot&of&Christianity&that&focuses&on&battle&between& good&and&evil)& & Magic&and&Law& • Magic,&ritual&and&law&as&mechanisms&of&enforcement&of&community&values&Magic&is& depicted&as&overturning&the&laws&of&physics&and&nature&& Isis& • • • • •

Egypt&comes&into&GrecoPRoman&sphere&(Ptolemaic&dynasty,&beginning&in&4th¢.& BCE;&Roman&province&after&31&BCE)&& Isis&worshipped&with&Osiris&and&Horus&&& aligned&syncretically&with&other&female&divinities&(see&pp.&195P96,&197P98)&& associated&with&fertility,&birth&and&rebirth&& Visibility&of&Isis&worship&at&Rome&PP&large&complex&in&the&Campus&Martius&& &...