CLST 277: The World of Late Antiquity Spring Semester 2017 Dr. Jacqueline Long

Text-reference (to find it; to cite it)	Survey-data1 (pertinent contextual information, such as author, date, location, type of text, apparent main focus of class meeting for which it is assigned)	Initial Questions (where do you start interrogating this source?)	Record: Condensed Answers (what answers do you find?)	Relate: Observations, Connections, Questions to Think about More2 (what else can you do with this source?)
Lee # 1.1 P.Dura 54, cols. 1-2	Roman army - imperial bureaucracy mid-220s AD Dura-Europus (Roman Syria, near the Euphrates) calendar of sacrifices traditional religion	What types of occasions did the Roman army celebrate officially on a regular basis, so that they would be signalled in an official calendar? What does the observation involve?	vows for emperor/empire = public well-being; occasions in military service (e.g., discharge, festivals of military standards); emperors' & their family-members' birthdays, anniversaries, victories, accessions, coming-of-age; holidays of traditional gods; state holidays large agricultural bovids (ox, cow, bull); ritual performances (supplication)	Some people are "deified"?! different from gods; what's going on? Pattern: female divinities get the cows; also some personifications, e.g., Salus: what is the connection? Compare/contrast sacrifices in other documents for today: is the army different? Which dynasties are getting celebrated? Connections between emperors? Check DIR.

¹This information will often be set forth in an introduction to the text, syllabus-topic, or other "secondary" sources.
²This section has almost infinite potential. As we advance, note also connections with material we've read before.

Revised 14 January 2017 by jlong1@luc.edu
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