Roman Culture to 275 BC: some notes on culture before the Greek influence become dominant.

1. There is no serious literary culture, at least nothing that survives.
   1. Records survive. Calendars / annalist traditions/ tabularium. what about writing?
   2. Oral tradition in among the patricians / nobiles. The Senate House/ Curia. Togatus and another ; portrait and another.
   3. Fabulae praetextae: drama?? traveling theater? celebrating the important figures and events in early Roman history. perhaps survive in the tales told by Livy.
   4. Myth and ritual Sections 9, - 11; 46; 54 ; also celebrating the vintage
2. Material Culture:
   1. Housing
   2. Food
   3. Agriculture: olive; wine harvest, market; fishing; herding, shepherd; retail trade
   4. transportation: ancient and modern.
   5. Marriage