Mary Beard Flashcards
Mary Beard I
Methane spike year 1 in Greenland ice drill indicates burning of materials during expansion that would not be seen for a further 1000 years - material evidence
Olive oil economy
Sammian ware an example of globalisation
Carteia Spain - important 171BC 4000 men Roman soldiers and Spanish women - Livy a new species - Carteia their home, made them Latins (not full) but still a status pre Caracalla 212
Mary Beard II
Power through incorporation - full Roman citizenship
Timgad Algeria, a typical rich Roman town in full ex veteran , in Algeria, baths, library, theatre, forum - Urbucus’ monument mausoleum Roman/Berber
Consul, served in Judean expedition with Hadrian, local made good, and served in BRITAIN on Hadrian’s Wall!! He was an imperial Leget in Britain
You could move up in the empire
A wall doesn’t just keep people out it entices them in the centre and money was now on the empire’s margins generals etc. ‘The man on the throne was bonkers’ - Beard
Mary Beard III
A wall doesn’t just keep people out it entices them in the centre and money was now on the empire’s margins generals etc. ‘The man on the throne was bonkers’ - Beard
The tetreachy 4 emperors manageable chunks Diocletian
Romans had a contract with their Gods they fulfil cult and the Gods look after them, emperor managed the relationship between humans and Gods polytheism
Christianity - monotheism Christianity, Judaism Jews couldn’t fit the Roman gods into their beliefs
Mary Beard IV
But Christianity - challenged old Roman certainties about how the world worked. Rome sees it as a threat against their world order a contradiction - a virus spread by St Paul via the Roman mail system and its connectivity its web history was written by the winners - the Christians
Constantine - empire and church walk side by side Constantinople a Roman city with pagan gods and Roman trappings to show his imperial power till 1453
In the west barbarians emerging as rival powers trying to buy in to Roman ethos not destroy it but imitate it
The real air of the Roman Empire was Christendom
Hitler, Britain, Napoleon all tried to recreate Rome
Mary Beard V
Everyone and everything came from somewhere else
Insuli - islands apartment blocks
Hadrian and the rubbing down of the man in the bath’s anecdote
The forums though spectacular also contained shops, dentist, beauty parlour, rent boys and prostitutes
The Emperor Augustus executed a patrician who started the fire brigade out of jealousy and thought it was a play for power
Gaius Marius in 2nd c BCE created the volunteer rather than conscript army veterans could stay which led to the power of the generals
history is the Mirror by which we can touch the finger tips of people in the past
