HUM / REL 293 - Continuation of Beginning Latin
Course Notes - Week 5
Cambridge Course - main source of information : Cambridge Course Teachers' notes
Pages 51, 66 - Evidence for the reign of Cogidubnus is given by an inscription which was originally in a temple to Neptune (the Roman god of the sea) and Minerva (Roman goddess of wisdom) in Chichester.
Page 64 - The photo shows the statue of Boadicea and her daughters (behind her in the chariot) which stands by London Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in London. For some reason the sculptor, Thomas Thornycroft, did not show bridles and reins on the horses. There's an English joke that she is setting the example which modern British women follow even today - "Both hands off the wheel"
Page 65 - The photo of Chichester shows not only the enduring Roman street grid, but also the remains of the Roman walls at the lower right. The road running up the center follows the original Roman road to London. Chichester is built on the site of the main city of the Regnenses, Noviomagus.
Fishbourne Palace, which may have belonged to Cogidubnus, is just a couple of miles to the west of Chichester.
Page 68 - "Maiden Castle", shown in the photo, probably originally called something like "Mai Dun" was a settlement built and fortified by the Celts in southern Britain, 400-100 BC. It is about 47 acres in area. The people lived in roundhouses inside the walls. Note that the walls are not straight, as the Romans would build, but follow the contours of the land. Maiden Castle is near Dorchester, in Dorset.
The defenders who were buried in the cemetery by the gate to the fort must have been buried by their own people - food had been put in the graves with them
The hillfort shown at the foot of the page is Durotrigan, at Hod Hill, Dorset. The larger rectangle is formed by the walls of the Celtic fort. The Romans used two of the Celtic Iron Age walls, and built two smaller walls to enclose their own camp (the smaller rectangle)
The names Chichester and Dorchester show that they are on the sites of Roman camps
Funeral games were a way of celebrating the memory of the dead. The story in the book is based on an account by Vergil from the Aeneid V, 114-285, of the games in honor of Anchises. The story in the book uses the death of the Emperor Claudius as the event which is being celebrated.
Tacitus records, in his book "Agricola", 14 :
quaedam civitates Cogidumno regi donatae (is ad nostram usque memoriam fidissimus mansit), vetere ac iam pridem recepta populi Romani consuetudine, ut haberet instrumenta servitutis et reges
Certain towns/tribes were given to king Cogidubnus (he remained most faithful to us and to our memory), according to an ancient and long-accepted tradition of the Roman people, to have (use) kings as instruments of slavery
Cogidubnus was rewarded for his faithful service to Rome by being granted membership of the senatorial class of citizens
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Pages 132-133, Sententiae Antīquae -
2. Oedipus blinded himself in remorse when he found out that he had unknowingly killed his own father and then married his own mother.
3. Themistlocles was a great Athenian leader of the Greeks against the invading Persians.
4. Demosthenes was a Greek orator and lawyer, who started life with a speech impediment which he overcame by long practice and hard work
5. Romans disliked the ostentatious life-styles of eastern potentates such as the Persian kings
13. Part of Cicero's Third Catiline oration - see below. The conspirators had tried to recruit the tribe of the Allobroges to join in the conspiracy against Rome. Cicero had some of their letters, which he presented as evidence of the plot
Page 133 - The oration by Cicero was in response to Catiline and the conspiracy to take control of Rome. We read an earlier part of this speech in Chapter 11 (page 73), and part of his Third Catiline oration in Chapter 14 (page 95). Sentence 13 of this week's Sententiae Antīquae is also from Cicero's Third Catiline oration.
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