hey anyone else doing imperial rome or is it just my school? (1 Viewer)

[shelley]

hey, is anyone else doing augustus and te julio-claudians? or Rome from Augustua to Titus or Agrippina? I'm being to feel really alone out here!!!

 

[Johnny Corrupt]

Yeah our school is doing Mostly Rome.
Agrippina the younger for the personality and Augustus to Titus for the Ancient Societies.

Also New Kingdom Egypt for the historical period.

-JC

 

[narrator]

we're doing Augustus to Titus for the society too, i don't know whay more ppl don't do it, if for nothin else it gives a historical perspective of the events after Shakespeares' Julius Caesar, which helps with the eng advanced course

 

[shelley]

hey thanx, though it doesn't help with my advanced course...i don't do julius ceasar!

 

[Johnny Corrupt]

Well i don't do Advanced english, i do nice and easy standard

I find doing the Julio claudians good as it overlaps with Agrippina and i find it easier to remember dates and relationships.


-JC

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Yeah, we're doing that topic, along with Hatshepsut, the Minoans, and Egypt Dynasties I-VI.

 

[Wiggum]

I'm doing all of your topics but i still haven't finished Agrippina just yet but you're definately not alone. A majority of the students who do ancient actually do at least one topic on Rome. So there's bound to be someone who does at least one topic on Rome that's the same as yours.

 

[Harimau]

I do Agrippina and Augustus to Julio Claudians... I find this topic to be very interesting.

 

[tash]

yeah we're doing augustus to titus and augustus and the julio claudians. i think there are quite a lot of people doing either of them

 

[Harimau]

Originally posted by tash
yeah we're doing augustus to titus and augustus and the julio claudians. i think there are quite a lot of people doing either of them

Its an easy topic, thats why.

 

[Wiggum]

It's hard to be the top though, you need to know so much more than what the course requires you to.

 

[Harimau]

Originally posted by Wiggum
It's hard to be the top though, you need to know so much more than what the course requires you to.

Just reading the different books by the authors are all that is really needed to get into band 6 though.

 

[Wiggum]

True, but i still think that it requires you to have a vastly extensive knowledge about your personality/society/historical period not just by reading different authors.

 

[Harimau]

Originally posted by Wiggum
True, but i still think that it requires you to have a vastly extensive knowledge about your personality/society/historical period not just by reading different authors.

But you get that extensive by reading the different authors. Say Wiggum, do you go to Sydney Boys?

 

[Wiggum]

I guess, but what i'm trying to get is that it's not THAT simple. Yeah. What school do you go to?

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by Wiggum
True, but i still think that it requires you to have a vastly extensive knowledge about your personality/society/historical period not just by reading different authors.

Who are the best authors to read? I read 'Oxford History Of The Roman World', but not much of it was relevant.. Possibly that Tacitus character? (I was going to borrow The Annals next time I go to the library..)

 

[Wiggum]

Go through all the ancients, you need to know them back to front, then find some modern historians like R Symes and read what they say about the ancients. Then you gain info about both and you can use them to compare/contrast/whatever you want to do in an essay.

 

[shelley]

umm, its good to read barrett(modern), Boak (modern), bradley and hennessey (textbookish things), grant (modern) and in terms of ancients you really need to know suetonius (excuse my lowsy spelling), if you haven't read tacitus you need your head examined. Cassius Dio is another good one. For the julio claudians another good one is josephus! lol, theres lots more but there proberbly the most imporatant

 

[Andronicus]

"Possibly that Tacitus character"?

Not to insult you Gregor Samsa, but if you haven't read Tacitus, then you really don't have the info you need for the Imperial Rome topic. Look, I do Extension 1 History aswell as Ancient (and Modern) and we did Augustus & the Julio-Claudians, Imperial Rome and in Extension we did Tacitus the historian.

These 3 topics overlap perfectly, so it's like doing the same topic 3 times over from different perspectives - which is why they are so easy (plus Imperial Rome isn't even a bloody proper topic - it's so easy and basic, and not even an essay question in the HSC - it's short answer...)

My point: READ TACITUS, because if you haven't, then you are really disadvantaging yourself - he is the best ancient historian on the topic (better than Seutonius) - although, his chapter on Gaius is missing, as his writings on the execution of Sejanus by Tiberius... anyway...

The Michael Grant translation is good...

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by Andronicus
"Possibly that Tacitus character"?

Not to insult you Gregor Samsa, but if you haven't read Tacitus, then you really don't have the info you need for the Imperial Rome topic. Look, I do Extension 1 History aswell as Ancient (and Modern) and we did Augustus & the Julio-Claudians, Imperial Rome and in Extension we did Tacitus the historian.

These 3 topics overlap perfectly, so it's like doing the same topic 3 times over from different perspectives - which is why they are so easy (plus Imperial Rome isn't even a bloody proper topic - it's so easy and basic, and not even an essay question in the HSC - it's short answer...)

My point: READ TACITUS, because if you haven't, then you are really disadvantaging yourself - he is the best ancient historian on the topic (better than Seutonius) - although, his chapter on Gaius is missing, as his writings on the execution of Sejanus by Tiberius... anyway...

The Michael Grant translation is good...

Don't worry, I don't feel insulted. I plan to borrow 'The Annals' from the library later today anyways.. The most annoying thing of all was that my Ancient teacher tried discouraging me from reading it..Grr.. But nevertheless, better to read it late than never right? (I'm worried about my classmates then, who don't even know who Tacitus is. Ooops.)

As for the translation recommendation, thanks.