Fortunae in Italy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Miano
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
First Century ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
City Walls

This chapter analyses the cults of Fortuna through Italy up to the first century BC. Although the evidence for the cults is mostly fragmentary, contextual information shows that diverse meanings were attached to Fortuna by a variety of agents. Latium and Campania are the regions where most of the cults are attested, and the diffusion of the deity seems to have followed that of the Latin language. There are certain recurring features common to many local cults and sanctuaries, e.g. a tendency to worship Fortuna near liminal places, with sanctuaries attested at the border of different territories and near city walls.

Saguntum: The Remains of an Honorary Arch and Urban Planning Outside the City Walls

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Juanjo Ferrer-Maestro ◽  
Josep Benedito-Nuez ◽  
José Manuel Melchor-Monserrat
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Building ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Architecture

At the end of the first century and especially throughout the second century ad, a public building programme was largely responsible for the transformation of Saguntum's urban planning, especially, outside the walls of this well-known Hispano-Roman city. The aim of this article is to present the features of the monumental landscape outside the city walls, including an outstanding honorary construction, which strongly influenced the design of public architecture at a time of political and socio-economic change.

Introduction: Reason from Things

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Anne Carter
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Written Composition ◽  
Lesson Analysis ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Object Lesson

This chapter provides an introduction to the use of the term “object lesson” as a pedagogical strategy employed in US classrooms in the nineteenth century. While typically understood as a metaphor in the twenty-first century, an object lesson was a historic classroom practice in which material things were the basis of instruction. In the 1860s it was a major educational fad throughout the United States. In an object lesson, analysis moved from the close study of a material thing to a consideration of the object’s qualities, contextual information, modes of sorting and finally written composition, allowing for the development of abstract concepts rooted in the objects considered. As such, these lessons became a way to reason about the material world and American cultural and intellectual life more broadly.

Derivation

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-203
Author(s):  
P. H. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Initial Application ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Ancient Etymology ◽  
Technical Study ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies derivations. The formation of words from words was also a topic of ancient etymology. At least as early as the first century BC, in Roman scholar Varro’s study of the Latin language, the origin of words was taken to have two aspects. One was their initial application or assignment to things. The priority at that point was that words assigned should be as few as possible, so that they could be learned more quickly. The other is distinguished in an earlier passage as the way in which ‘the derivatives of these names have arrived at their differences’. The priority there was that derivatives should be as many as possible, so that people ‘may more easily say those that they need to use’. The first aspect called for historical inquiry into forms individually. In contrast, the second required a technical study, with a few brief precepts that are as short as possible.

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