Wednesday’s Blog
At the beginning of class we heard a song called ‘When it
rains in Rome‘ it was in Italian and could only understand a little, but it
said something like how Rome is very pretty when it rains.
Person from Study Abroad will be here tomorrow (Thursday)
around 5 to speak about us regarding money issues and John; Dr. Weber’s
assistant will be in class on Friday.
We then saw a power point presentation with pictures from
Rome. We saw the Piramide de Caio Cestia: to further understand the history of
the pyramid we read a poem called, Rome: At the pyramid of Cestius Near the
graves of Shelley and Keats (1887) Dr. Weber said to read this poem when we are
in the Piramide de Caio Cestia, he also said to read the poem according to the
periods not the lines.
Can you recall these
people that we mention in yesterday’s class?
-Brutus: Who is Brutus? he took a big role on Julius
Caesar’s assassination.
-Cervelia was Cesar’s mistress
-Cervilia’s brother? Cato
-What was Cato’s relationship with Julius Caesar? They were
enemies.
-Pompei is Julius Caesar’s enemy.
-Caesar’s nephew was Octavian.
-Octimatus means the best in Latin and Popolarus was the
party of the people or Caesar’s party.
-Mos Maiorum is the core concept of Roman traditionalism,
from but in dynamic complement to written law, or the “time-honored principles”
of behavioral models, and social practices that affected private, political,
and military life in ancient Rome. Constitution Law or how you determine a
sentence in a court.
What was the impact of astrologers in the Roman Empire? I
think that the impact was in determining weather conditions, indication of when
to go to war and held events, and it was something like superstition. They
believed that you are what you are because that was your destiny and that you
are the best on what you are doing and everything in the cosmos has a place.
What constitutes justice?
Justice is the application of tradition for the maintained
order. Both the individual and group have rights.
Why pay so much attention to Ancient Rome? What’s the
purpose?
When you see naked sculptures there are Goddess and when
they have clothes on they are people. Naked sculptures are gods or goddesses
because they have the perfect or ideal body.
Remember this date, 1417 … Rome has been a tourist city
since 1417.
I found a great website for the Vatican. I would really like
to go to mass.
See you tomorrow! Ciao! Ci Vediamo Domani!!
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