- Roman gravestone inscriptions to modern gravestone inscriptions
- Twitter to Roman epigraphy in general
- Yes this will get narrowed and refined because it's a general comparison.
- Roman building dedications to modern building dedications
The morning class is learning about Trajan right now with his military excursions everywhere. On Friday, Professor Kendall was going to talk about the bath complex he built, but it was the Friday before spring break. A long lecture would not have been welcome.
The afternoon class is reading Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, and it seems like a satire. He may or may not be serious, but as I read it I feel like he's thumbing his nose at everyone.
The morning class studied Titus a week or two ago, and I'm going to use the inscriptions on his arch in order to look at memory. The arch was put up by his younger brother Domitian after Titus' death. This is the inscription Domitian put on the arch when he built it.
SENATVS
POPVLVSQUE ROMANVS
DIVO TITO DIVI VESPASIANI F
VESPASIANO AUGUSTO
The Senate and People of Rome
To the divine Titus Vespasian Augustus son on the divine Vespasian
On the other side of the arch, a pope put up an inscription of his own.
INSIGNE RELIGIONES ATQUE ARTIS MONVMENTVM
VETUSTATE FATISCENS
PIVS SEPTIMIVS PONTIFEX MAXIMVS
MOVIS OPERIBUS PRISCVM EXEMPLAR IMITANTIBUS
FVLCIRI SERVARIQUE IVSSIT
ANNO SACRI PRINCIPATVS EIVS XXIIII
(This) monument, remarkable in terms of both religion and art, had weakened from age:
Pius the Seventh, Supreme Pontiff,
by new works on the model of the ancient exemplar ordered it reinforced and preserved.
In the year of his sacred rule the 24th.
Looking at gravestones, I found that we remember people by the same markers as the Romans did: family relations, age(to an extent), other associations the deceased belonged to. For buildings, I'm going to look at the same thing.
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