Arizona State University History Early Western Civilization Questions
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1- Livy, ‘Battle of Cannae’ (source 5.1) reports that when the news of the defeat at Cannae reached Rome, ‘never before … had there been such excitement or panic within its walls.’ Which members of Roman society were singled out for punishment as a result of the defeat?
2- Why and how are the opening lines of the Iliad invoked by ‘Virgil, The Aeneid‘ (source 5.3)?
3- According to Livy, ‘Battle of Cannae’ (source 5.1) what were the main reasons for the Roman army’s crushing defeat? What were the principal reasons for Hannibal’s success?
4- How is ‘Virgil, The Aeneid‘ (source 5.3) grafting Roman history onto the story of the Trojan War and why?
5- According to Plutarch ‘Land Law of Tiberius Grachhus’ (source 5.2), why did plebeians support Tiberius Gracchus’s land law? Why did patricians oppose it?