Rome movie

Today’s Western, civilization class brought us another video to watch. This video I am guessing Mr. Schick is showing us because not only is it accurate and related to what we are learning, but it backed up what we read in the book. The movie starts by talking about the events of Tiberius Gracchus’s father’s death. In this we learn that he was an outstanding person. We were also educated on their “funeral” traditions for important people. In this tradition, they put the person on a throne in a sitting position and wax the eyes open to make it look as if the person can still see. Of course, they set up this display in a public area, so people can easily come by and pay their respects. It then moves on to cover the 3^rd Punic War. This illustrates how difficult it was for the Romans to scale the wall of Carthage and burn the city.