Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 5

Fiero 6-7

Questions:

• What is a republic, and what is an empire?
• What makes good law?

Rome

• Resources
  • Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
  • Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Antiquity
  • Roman Gladitorial Games
    
    
• Republic and Empire
  • Roman Law
  • World Conquest and the Pax Romana
  • Architecture
    
    
• Responses to Imperial Power
  
  
  • Stoicism
    • Roman Stoicism - figures
    • History of Stoicism
    • Major Tenets of Stoicism
    • Stoic Links
    • Another article on Stoicism
    • The Stoic Foundation
    • Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus
      
      
  • Satire
    • What Is Satire?
    • Roman Satire Timeline
    • Satire - definitions
    • Later (Modern) Satire
      • The Onion
      • Daily Show with Jon Stewart
      • The Spoof.com
        
        
  • Christianity
    • Christianity as a rebel movement

China

• Confucianism
  • Analects
  • Confucian Classic Documents
  • Confucius (Friesian School page)
  • Confucius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)