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Unit 1: Narrative Scope and Sequence Unit 1: Narrative Scope and Sequence STAGE DATE A.D. SETTING CHARACTERS STORY LINE CULTURAL INTRODUCED BACKGROUND UNIT 1 Stage 1 79 Pompeii: Caecilius' house Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, wife Cerberus steals food. Caecilius and Metella and Metella, son Quintus, slaves their household; houses in Clemens and Grumio (cook ), Pompeii dog Cerberus Stage 2 79 Pompeii: Caecilius' house amicus , ancilla Dinner party; Grumio eats, drinks, fl irts, as A typical day: clothing, host and guest sleep. food Stage 3 79 Pompeii: Forum Pantagathus (barber), Celer Celer paints Hercules at Caecilius' ho use; The town of Pompeii (painter), Syphax (slave-dea ler), Pantagathus, angry at poet, cuts cust omer; Melissa (slave-girl) Caecilius buys Melissa from Syphax; Metella does not like Melissa. Stage 4 79 Pompeii: Forum Hermogenes (merchant) Hermogenes borrows money from C aecilius, The Forum refuses to repay; court scene; Caecilius wins. Stage 5 79 Pompeii: Theater Actius (actor), Poppaea (sla ve- Holiday play attended by all Caeciliu s' The Theater girl), Lucrio (her master) household except Grumio. Poppaea has trouble getting Lucrio to go to play s o she can meet her boyfriend (= Grumio). Stage 6 79 Pompeii: Forum, tavern , Felix (freedman) Quintus rescues Clemens and Grum io from Slaves and freedmen Caecilius' house dog, witnesses fight between farmer and Greek merchant, meets Felix in tave rn, invites him home; story is told of ho w Felix earned his freedom by saving the inf ant Quintus from a kidnapper. Stage 7 79 Pompeii: Caecilius' house Decens (guest), ghost of Pugnax Felix, at Caecilius' banquet, tells stor y of Burial customs; Roman (gladiator), Decens' two slaves werewolf. Decens fails to arrive, bec ause he beliefs about life after has been murdered. death woods on Mt. Vesuvius; Quintus and Felix go boar-hunting; Quintus Pompeii: Caecilius' house kills boar. Metella consoles Melissa, who has been scolded by Grumio and Clemens. Stage 8 59 (sic) Pompeii: Amphitheater senator Regulus Regulus gives gladiatorial show, whic h ends Amphitheater; gladiatorial in a riot between Nucerians and Pompeians. shows; the riot at Pompeii Stage 9 79 Pompeii: baths Milo (athlete); Sceledrus, Quintus' birthday visit to baths with The Baths Anthrax (public slaves) Caecilius. Milo hurls discus; Quintus throws it and damages Milo's statue. Sceledr us and Anthrax apprehend a toga thief. Pompeii: the Forum Marcellus ( mercator ) Metella and Melissa buy Quintus a new toga for his birthday. Stage 10 79 Pompeii: school Theodorus (teacher), Alexan der Debate: "Greeks are better than Rom ans"; Education; writing Pompeii: Alexander's (friend of Quintus), Diodor us Alexander wins: "Romans are imitato rs." materials house and Thrasymachus (brother s of Quarrel over 3 presents for Alexand er's 2 Pompeii: tavern Alexander) brothers: Quintus settles by taking o ne for himself. Syphax pays tavern bill with old Egy ptian ring; bad luck comes to all. Grumio and Poppaea eventually find it. What wil l happen to them? Stage 11 March 79 Pompeii: around the town Marcus and Quartus (broth ers), Sulla makes profit by painting signs f or Local government and (i.e. house of Marcus an d Sulla (sign-painter), Holcon ius brothers advertising their candidates. Grumio elections Quartus, near the and Afer (candidates) tries to earn money by voting illegall y. Amphitheater, Caecilius ' Clemens earns 10 denarii by rescuing house, the Forum) Caecilius from riot, goes out with Poppaea. Stage 12 August 24, Nuceria, Pompeii: day o f Julius (friend of Caecilius) Turmoil: Clemens saves Julius, who then The eruption of Vesuvius; 79 eruption flees. Clemens finds Caecilius dying . excavation of Pompeii Caecilius orders Clemens to find Quintus and give him signet ring. Caecilius dies, Clemens departs, Cerberus stands guard. Unit 2: Narrative Scope and Sequence STAGE DATE A.D. SETTING CHARACTERS STORY LINE CULTURAL INTRODUCED BACKGROUND UNIT 2 Stage 13 Autumn, 82 Britain: Salvius' country Gaius Salvius Liberalis (circuit Varica reports that Salvius, who killed a mine British tribal system; estate judge in southern Britain), slave, has been wounded by slave's son. invasions of Caesar and Rufilla (Salvius' wife), Varica Salvius has demanded revenge. At inspection Claudius; Romanization; (farm manager), Philus of estate slaves, Slavius strikes Bregans; the the career of Salvius (accountant), Volubilis (house dog being led by Bregans attacks Salvius, but cook), Bregans (farm slave), cannot be killed, because it is a gift of King Loquax and Anti-Loquax (slave- Cogidubnus. Salvius orders Cervix sold boys), Pompeius Optatus (mine because he is sick. manager), Alator (mine slave), Cervix (head plowman) Stage 14 Autumn, 82 Britain: Salvius' country Marcia (old slave-woman), Salvius and Rufilla quarrel over country Life in Roman Britain: estate Domitilla (slave-girl) estate. Domitilla gets Volubilis to do her houses, mining, farming, work. Rufilla uses Salvius' best furnishings to slavery. decorate a room for her relative Quintus. Quintus, who came earlier to Britain from Pompeii, has a present for Cogidubnus better than Salvius'. Stage 15 October 13, Britain: Cogidubnus' Cogidubnus (king of the Cogidubnus sacrifices to deified Emperor The reaction of various 82 palace Regnenses), Belimicus Claudius and cremates his effigy. Boat race Celtic chiefs to the arrival (Cantiacan chieftain), Dumnorix between Belimicus and Dumnorix: Belimicus' of the Romans: Boudica, (Regnensian chieftain) recklessness leads to shipwreck, Dumnorix Cartimandua, wins. Cogidubnus. Stage 16 Winter, 82 Britain: Cogidubnus' Emperor Vespasian Belimicus tries to get revenge on Dumnorix The Palace at Fishbourne Flashback: palace by introducing a trained bear at a banquet. Winter 79 - Bear attacks Cogidubnus; Quintus kills it. Autumn 80 Quintus tells king his sad story: he sold his father's estates in the winter of 79, visited Athens in the spring and summer of 80, and moved to Alexandria in the autumn of 80. Cogidubnus tells Quintus about his palace: Emperor Vespasian built it in gratitude for the king's help during Roman invasion of Britain. Stage 17 Flashback Alexandria: around the Barbillus (wealthy merchant), Quintus, visiting Barbillus in Alexandria, is Alexandria (cont.): city Diogenes (Greek friend of given Egyptian slave, who is killed when Winter, 80 Barbillus), Plancus (a bore) crowd attacks Diogenes' house where Quintus has taken refuge. Plancus bores Barbillus and Quintus en route to the Temple of Serapis. Barbillus tells story of Arab merchant carried off by monstrous bird, from whose nest he stole jewels now owned by Barbillus. Stage 18 Flashback Alexandria: glass stores of Eutychus ("protection" Clemens, for whom Quintus has bought a Glassmaking; the Romans (cont.): Clemens and Eutychus racketeer) glass store, is harassed by Eutychus and his in Egypt Winter 80 gang for refusal to pay protection money. He is saved by cat, sacred to goddess Isis, whose devotee Clemens has become. Stage 19 Flashback Alexandria: city and Aristo (Greek amateur Family quarrels between Aristo, Galatea, and The worship of Isis (cont.): harbor tragedian), Galatea (his wife), Helena provide a comic interlude to sacred March 5, 81 Helena (their daughter) procession of goddess Isis. Flashback Barbillus' estate on Nile Phormio (Barbillus' estate- Barbillus' astrologer warns him against (cont.): river manager), Barbillus' personal hunting; Barbillus goes hunting anyway, but, Spring, 81 astrologer attacked by a hippopotamus and crocodile, is wounded in melee by a spear. Stage 20 Flashback Barbillus' estate on Nile Petro (Greek doctor), Plotina Astrologer's superstitious cures are scorned Medicine, science and (cont.): river (Barbillus' [deceased] wife), by Petro. Barbillus tells Quintus how his wife technology Spring, 81 Rufus (their son) and son sailed to Greece against advice of astrologer. Plotina drowned at sea; he disinherited Rufus, who is now in Roman army in Britain. Barbillus dies of astrologer's cure, but first commissions Quintus to find Rufus and assure him of his father's forgiveness. Last will and testament of Barbillus. Unit 3: Narrative Scope and Sequence STAGE DATE SETTING CHARACTER S STORY LINE CULTURAL A.D. INTRODUCED BACKGROUND UNIT 3 Stage 21 Spring, Britain: Cogidub nus' Lucius Marcius Memor Cogidubnus wond ers whether to go to Romano-British town of A.D. 83 palace at Fishbo urne, (haruspex, and director of Aquae Sulis for a h ealth cure. Salvius Aquae Sulis, its baths and and Aquae Sulis (Bath) shrine at Aquae Sulis), advises him to mak e his will. In Aquae temple complex. Cephalus (his f reedman) Sulis, Salvius order s Memor to kill Cogidubnus. In tu rn, Memor orders Cephalus to kill the king. Stage 22 Spring, Britain: Aquae S ulis Modestus and S trythio Vilbia, an innkeepe r's daughter, has Magic, curses, and A.D. 83 (Bath) (Roman soldier s), Latro become infatuated with Modestus, a superstitions. (local innkeepe r), Vilbia and Roman soldier from the Second Legion Rubria (Latro's daughters), on leave in Aquae Sulis, and has rejected Bulbus (Vilbia's lover), her previous boyfr iend, Bulbus. Gutta (Bulbus' friend) Strythio, Modestus ' friend, acts as go- between. Bulbus c onvinces his friend, Gutta, to imperson ate Vilbia and distract Modestus. Then Bulbus shoves Modestus into the sacred spring from where Modestus b egs for mercy and rejects Vilbia. Afte r hearing this, Vilbia is reunited with Bu lbus. Stage 23 Spring, Britain: Aquae Sulis Cephalus offers Co gidubnus a cup Roman religion, astrology. A.D. 83 (Bath) which has poisone d contents. Because Quintus has seen a similar cup in Egypt, he stops the king f rom drinking. Dumnorix forces C ephalus to drink the cup's contents. Ce phalus dies. A slave of Cephalus' delive rs a letter to Cogidubnus which reveals Memor's complicity. Cogidu bnus attempts to dismiss Memor fro m his position at the baths. Salvius inte rvenes and puts Cogidubnus under house arrest. Stage 24 Spring, Britain: various locales Gnaeus Julius A gricola A comic interlude where a bridge Travel and A.D. 83 (governor of B ritain) collapses when Mo destus attempts to communication in the cross it.
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