The DOCUMENT-IN-CONTEXT ANALYSIS (approximately 2000 words or 8 typed, doubled-spaced pages, excluding notes and bibliography) requires you to evaluate a primary source in its historical and cultural context. You will choose ONE of the primary-source options listed in the “Weekly topics and readings” section below (i.e., one of the listed sources that is not part of the required readings for the week), and you will find and read a full-length version of that source. Then you will critically discuss that primary source within its cultural and historical context. What kind of source is it? What kind of language does it use? What assumptions or values does it seem to take for granted? What does it reveal about ancient Roman ways of thinking or living? By the end of your paper, you should be able to say what your source reveals to us about the ancient Romans that we would not otherwise have known. To put your source in its appropriate context, you will need to cite at least 4-6 secondary, scholarly sources (academic books and articles—not internet sources).

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