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1 If the most important element of historical thinking is understanding the author’s purpose in writing, what do you think is the purpose of the author of this textbook? of your professor?

2 Given the absence of female voices from antiquity, how can a historian learn anything about that half of the population of the ancient world?

3 What challenges can you foresee in trying to mingle both archaeological and textual evidence?

4 What subjects do you think will be the most difficult to handle for a cultural historian of Rome? What subjects might be the easiest? Why?

5 What value might there be in developing comparisons between the Romans and modern Western peoples, or peoples living in other times or places?