Read and write a essay

The writing assignment About 500 words, more is ok. Try to make three points in your response. Post on your team's collaboration page and submit here as a canvas assignment.

Nimes is a beautiful city in southern France. It was named after Nemausus, the god of its abundant springs, and the waters of the springs still flow through the city streets. It had submitted to Roman rule in 121 BCE. After the defeat of Cleopatra and Antony, Augustus set up a settlement in Nimes that allotted plots of land to soldiers who had served in his forces in Egypt. Coins of the city showed a crocodile chained to a palm tree to celebrate these soldiers' roles in the defeat of Cleopatra.

Around the time of the dedication of the temple, a group of people happens to meet nearby at a public fountain with nice benches and a shrine to the Muses. Each one has their own perspective on experiencing a city that has been affected by Roman power. Choose a person from the list below, and write a monologue that describes what they are doing that day, exploring what they think about the development of the city of Nimes, and articulating anything they want to say to or ask the others in the group. What impact has the actions of Augustus detailed in the readings and ​this week's lecture page​ had on each of them? Use of your imagination to tell an impactful story is encouraged. What ways can you come up with to express your individual's experience of and perspective on Roman imperial power and local conditions in Gaul?

Along the way, please demonstrate that you have carefully read and thought about this week's course materials (and previous course materials if appropriate). Please ensure that each person in your team chooses a different person.

1. A very old Roman soldier​ who remembers the battles against Antony and Cleopatra in Egypt and now lives as a farmer in Nimes. He's curious about the Germans. (During his travels in Greece he's read Hesiod too)

2. A druid​, very conscious of religious traditions, beliefs and practices in Gaul and curious about Roman religious beliefs and practices (and he's learned Greek to read the Odyssey). -Chris

3. A female cousin of Augustus' ​who has travelled to Nimes for the dedication of the temple and is very sensitive to and curious about gender issues of all kinds. Also, she's read Menander's ​Dyskolos​.

4. A young local Roman official​ who has some Gallic family connections with a wine business and has been involved in the building of the temple and has

good communications with everything going on at Rome, including the poetry of Horace.

5. A man whose family has been in Nimes for generations​ and who has rebellious attitudes comparable to those expressed by Calcagus in Tacitus' Agricola ​(see below).