Roman Culture

In each chapter of my Latin textbook, Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3, there is always a few pages about Roman culture. In our latest chapter, we learned about how we can learn Roman Britain culture through literary and archaeological evidence and inscriptions. Through literary evidence, we have learned about Julius Caesar's attempts to take over the southeast coast of Britain in 55 BC. Through literary evidence, we also learn about Agricola through Tacitus' biography of Agricola, a British govenor and Tacitus' father in law. Though archaeological evidence, we have learned about specific time periods in the empire because of what is inscribed on coins. For instance, if a coin has a picture of a Julius Caesar, it will be from his reign. Pottery can also show us trading routes that were used by the Romans. From the inscriptions on tombstones, we have learned about the Roman possession of Britain.

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Pope, Stephanie M., Patricia E. Bell, Stan Farrow, Richard M. Popeck, and Anne Shaw. Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3. Fourth Edition. New York: Cambridge, 2002.