How is Virgil, The Aeneid grafting Roman history onto the story of the Trojan War
1. How is ‘Virgil, The Aeneid’ (source 5.3) grafting Roman history onto the story of the Trojan War and why?
2. Why and how are the opening lines of the Iliad invoked by ‘Virgil, The Aeneid’ (source 5.3)?
3. According to Plutarch ‘Land Law of Tiberius Grachhus’ (source 5.2), why did plebeians support Tiberius Gracchus’s land law? Why did patricians oppose it?
4. After reading Plutarch ‘Land Law of Tiberius Grachhus’ (source 5.2), why are the reforms sponsored by Tiberius Gracchus and his brother Gaius considered the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic?
5. What larger political events serve as a backdrop to Laudatio Turiae ‘Eulogy for a Wife: In Praise of Turia’ (source 5.4)? How do the put the Laudatio Turiae into historical context?
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