COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES

CLAS/HIST240 Ancient Societies: Everyday Life
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois

Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu), Monmouth, Illinois
 

Course Documents:  The Course Syllabus 2009  / Course Syllabus 2014 /  Course Description / Required Texts / Instructor / Class Format / Goals and Requirements / Schedule of Readings and Assignments / Writing Guidelines  /  Grading Scale / List of Important Places / Sample Map Quiz /  Course Handouts and Weblinks / Class Photo / Powerpoints / Important Terms

Chronology /  Metropolitan Museum Timeline / Timeline of Roman History / Greek Pantheon / The Major Gods /

The Private Life of the Romans by Harold Whetstone Johnston
Maps: http://www.unc.edu/awmc/
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean. Interactive Ancient Mediterranean: http://iam.classics.unc.edu /  Map of Mediterranean
Joe, Jimmy. Timeless Myths Geographia. Aegean Map: http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/aegeanmap.html
Mohr, James, et al. The Mapping History Project: http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/
Suzanne, Bernard. Index of Maps of the Ancient Greek World: http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/mapindex.htm|
Maps of the Roman Empire: http://intranet.dalton.org/groups/rome/RMaps.html

Index Greek Life / The Romans / Classics Page / Roman Social History / Germania

Major Classical Authors / Aristophanes / Structure of a Greek theatre / Greek theatre / Martial

Women: Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World  /  Sappho 16 / Sappho's Prayer to Aphrodite / Images: Sappho reading / Sappho and Alcaeus / Sappho Page / The Divine Sappho / Sappho  / Archaic Greek Grave Markers / Greek Family: Religious Duties and Cults / Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi / Public Lives of Greek Women: Study Questions / Roman Marriage Laws

Pompeii:
http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-house.html
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/house.html

House of the Faun http://archaeology.about.com/od/archaeologicalsi3/ss/pompeii_faun.htm
http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/1097_House_of_the_Faun.html
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/pompeii/thumbnails_contents.html
http://www.jhauser.us/pictures/history/Romans/Pompeii/index.html

Roman Clothing / Roman Society / Hypocausts: Heating Homes In Ancient Rome

Sports: The Colosseum / Circus Maximus / The Gladiator Site

Slavery: J. Madden: "Slavery in the Roman Empire: Numbers and Origins"  / Seneca on Slavery (Epistle 47)
Spartacus: Historical Background / Spartacus Behind the Myth