University of Miami Gracchus Land Law Laudatio Turiae & Battle of Cannae Discussion
I’m stuck on a History question and need an explanation.
Q1) 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?
Q2) 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?
Q3) What larger political events serve as a backdrop to Laudatio Turiae ‘Eulogy for a Wife: In Praise of Turia’ (source 5.4)? How do the put the Laudatio Turiae into historical context?
Q4) 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?
Q5) Why and how are the opening lines of the Iliad invoked by ‘Virgil, The Aeneid‘ (source 5.3)?
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