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•NYT Book Review •Meet the Romans with Mary Beard 1/3 - HD Video 59 min. on Youtube.

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Beard's SPQR Ch.1 Questions

 * Why does the historian research especially the time before the great Roman Empire? Give at least two reasons.


 * How is the Greek "democracy" related to the Roman early "democracy"?


 * How does the historian research and analyze Cicero?


 * Are there several methods that Beard uses to come to a clearer picture of what really happened?


 * Which are Beard's most used historical sources that give her authentic information?

Beard's SPQR Ch.2 Questions

 * What does the author want to say with the following sentence? "To understand the ancient Romans, it is necessary to understand where they believed they came from." (Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (p. 56). Liveright. Kindle Edition.)


 * According to the Romans' self-understanding how did their picture of marriage looked like?


 * Why does the author believe: "Civil war, we might say, was in the Roman genes."? (Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (pp. 65-66). Liveright. Kindle Edition.)


 * What did the Roman Republic set apart from every other Western city state (like Athens)?


 * How did the Romans treat their slaves in contrast to the Greeks? Explain the term "manumission".


 * Why does the story of Aeneas assume that all Romans were actually foreigners when looking to the beginnings? The author calls it an "ethnically fluid concept" (Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (p. 78). Liveright. Kindle Edition.)