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Resource use and reliability – Portfolio Assignment

Gladiator scene from the series Roman Empire: Reign of Blood. By Richard Lopez, 2016.

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Time:
2016

Intention:
To fight each other until someone
dies

Context:
Gladiators fighting each other.

Kind:
Gladiator fight

Is this source reliable? No

What can you research with this source?

How it was to fight in a gladiator fight.

Jules César, 1722. Part of the collection of Musee de Louvre in Paris.

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Time:
1722

Intention:
How Julius Caesar looked

Context:
Statue of Julius Caesar

Kind:
Statue

Is this source reliable? No

What can you research with this source?

How Julius Caesar looked.
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You too, Brutus? Text about the murder of Julius Caesar, made by Suetonius in 120 A.D.

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Time:
When Caesar realized that he was being 120
attacked with daggers from all sides, he
Intention:
pulled his toga over his head and over To let Brutus feel what he has done to
his feet using his left hand so that he his friend
would look dignified. Lying in this
Context:
position, he was stabbed 23 times. He Brutus and other people killing Julius
moaned only upon the first thrust, but Caesar and he recognizes Brutus.
without a word. Yet some say that
when Marcus Brutus approached him, Kind:
Text, book
he said in Greek: ‘You too, friend?’
Is this source reliable? Yes

What can you research with this source?

Who the friends of Julius Caesar were.

The Gallic Haeduans plead with Caesar to take action against the Germanic king
Ariovistus. Fragment from The Gallic War, by Julius Caesar around 50 B.C.
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Caesar saw that the Haeduans, whom the Time:
senate often called ‘brothers and kinsmen’, 50 b.c.
were now almost enslaved by the
Intention:
Germanic people. He also saw it as a Crossing the Rhine and taking over
danger that Germanic people had begun to and conquering a lot of places
make a habit of crossing over the Rhine. If
these ferocious barbarians were to take Context:
control of Gaul, they would certainly The Gauls wanted to cross the Rhine
and Caesar wanted to stop that by
advance on to Roman Provence and, from
punishing the Germanic king
there into Italy. Caesar could not let that
insolent Germanic king Ariovistus go Kind:
unpunished. Story

Is this source reliable? Yes

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What can you research with this source?

You can research what happened in the Gallic War

Fresco (wall painting) of Emperor Justinian with his royal household, around 500 A.D.

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Time:
500

Intention:
To let you know how they look

Context:
A painting with Fresco and his royal
household

Kind:
Wall painting

Is this source reliable? Yes

What can you research with this source?

How he and his royal household looked.

‘Panem et circenses’ in Satires by Juvenal in the early second century A.D.

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Time:
100-110
Because the people, who once
handed out military Intention:
To let you know what the is what they
commands, consulates and want.
armies, now keep quiet and Context:
anxiously wish for but two Juvenal (poet active) says that in the
past, everyone was focusing on
things: bread and circuses. commands, armies etc. But now the
only thing they want is bread and
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circuses.

Kind:
Poet

Is this source reliable? Yes

What can you research with this source?

What people wanted in the past
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An Egyptian proof of sacrifice, translated in Das frühe Christentum. Eine Dokumentation,

by P. Guyot and R. Klein, 1993.
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‘To the committee that supervised the Time:
1993
sacrifices. From Aurelia Ammonous,
daughter of Mystus, priestess of the Intention:
great, mighty, immortal god To show you what people would do
Petesouchos. I have sacrificed to the for the gods
gods all my life, and now again have Context:
made sacrifice, and poured a libation, in Aurelia Ammonous sacrifices her life
accordance with the decree and in your to the gods.
presence. I ask you to sign this as
Kind:
proof.’ Spoken words

Is this source reliable? Yes

What can you research with this source?

What people did for the gods

Augustus of Primaporte, 1st century A.D.

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Time:
0-100

Intention:
To show you how he looked

Context:
Statue of Augustus

Kind:
Statue

Is this source reliable? Yes

What can you research with this source?

How Augustus and people in his time looked.
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