Income inequality. As a commentator from the radio show Marketplace declares, it’s “not the sexiest of subjects.” But it’s a topic that interests the many who watched a six-minute video gone viral about wealth and income inequality in the United States (www.marketplace.org). Income inequality existed in the Roman world, too. Roman economic...Learn More

It may be useful for you to keep a file for this course in which you answer as many questions as possible for each ancient text we read. (We may never know the answers to some of these questions!) Answering these questions will help you to read with focus and will provide you with good notes to which to return during and after the course. 1) When...Learn More