Required Texts:

Online readings as assigned

Recommended Text:

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Some Online Resources

Chronology with maps giving an outline of major events in Republican history and various maps showing the growth of the Romans' territory

Map of the Roman Empire

Cambridge Ancient History Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 BC, Second edition

Tables of contents for all volumes of ANRW; the volumes are available in print at the library DG209 .T36

In the bibliographies on and linked to this syllabus, journals are abbreviated according to the conventions of L'Année philologique (henceforth APh), a bibliographical database. There are many online lists of these abbreviations; here is the one from UC Berkeley, and a pdf file straight from APh.

Other Useful Maps

List of magistrates 134-43 BCE with brief notes about persons and events

Roman names

Roman political vocabulary

The reading assignments are supposed to be completed before you come to class each day.

Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero Chapter 1, Rome at the Cross-Roads

Appian, The Civil Wars 1.1-26 (Book I, chapters 1-26)

Notes on Appian

Bibliography on the Gracchi

Valerius Maximus 9.14.3 source for the cognomen Serapio

One scholarly opinion: M. Gwyn Morgan, "'Cornelius and the Pannonians': Appian, Illyrica 14, 41 and Roman History, 143-138 B.C.," Historia 23 (1974) 183-216

Cicero, Laelius: On Friendship (in GL)

Some Scholarship about Scipio Aemilianus

22  Rome and Numidia

Sallust, BJ 1-62 (= chapters 1-62, pp. 52-93)

Reading notes for Sallust's Jugurthine War

Sallust, BJ 63-114

Some bibliography

Plutarch, Life of Marius 1-33

  A Portrait of Marius

Appian, Civil Wars 1.27-54

Notes on Appian

Roman and Italian minted propaganda (the links for the relevant coins minted during the Social War are at the very bottom of the page)

An article on lead bullets: William C. McDermott, "Glandes Plumbeae," CJ 38 (1942) 35-37

Cicero, On the Orator I pp. 228-280 (in GL)

On the Orator III: see the beginning of the book (§§1-16), and note that the word "daughter" in the penultimate line of the second paragraph should be "slaughter"

Elaine Fantham, The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore (Oxford 2004) is an excellent resource: PA6296.D7 F36 2004

Cicero, On the Orator I pp. 280-336 (in GL)

Remains of the XII Tables (in Latin)
Some of the old Laws (in English)

Appian, Mithradatic Wars 10-28: start here and use links at bottom, beginning with the one labeled 'part 3', to continue (through part 6)

Another translation, on Perseus

Background on Mithradates VI

Another place where you can find information on Mithradates with pictures

Some bibliography on Mithradates VI

Appian, Civil Wars 1.55-75

Plutarch, Life of Sulla

Sallust, Histories

A recent discussion of Lepidus in the Histories, with a good bibliography, is J. Alison Rosenblitt, "Sallust's Historiae and the Voice of Sallust's Lepidus," Arethusa 46 (2013) 447-470. This work can be accessed online

Plutarch, Life of Crassus 1-13; Plutarch, Life of Pompey 1-31

Some notes on today's reading

19  Cicero Against Verres: taking on Hortensius and the Metelli

Against Verres 1 (this is a .doc file that will download to your desktop)
This is the page from which the .doc file was copied; there are all the Verrine orations here along with several others

For those who are interested, there are five parts to the second book of Cicero's prosecution of Verres, and a preface to the whole series of orations, the Divinatio in Caecilium, the pleading whereby Cicero won the right to prosecute Verres:
Eliminating collusion between prosecutor and accused
Verres' misdeeds as city praetor
Verres' misdeeds as judge in Sicily
Verres' misdeeds regarding the grain supply
Verres' thefts of works of art (assigned for next classes)
Verres' idea of appropriate punishments

What Cicero thought of Verres' defense attorney: In Verrem 2.5.175 Tulit haec civitas quoad potuit, quoad necesse fuit, regiam istam vestram dominationem in iudiciis et in omni re publica, tulit!

Cicero, Against Verres: On the Theft of Works of Art 1-68 (Verrines 2.4) (in Speeches)

Cicero, Against Verres: On the Theft of Works of Art 69-151 (Verrines 2.4) (in Speeches)

Cicero, In Support of Manilius' Law (in Speeches)
There is an online version of the oration that I have marked up with boldface font to indicate important words or concepts that Cicero emphasizes, along with notations of the sections of the speech and development of the argument, and some footnotes. The introduction and notes in the printed text are also very good, and the translation is much more modern, but there are no boldface markers.

Plutarch, Life of Pompey 32-42

10  Catilina

Sallust, BC 1-35; Cicero, Second Speech against Catiline (in Speeches)

Sallust, BC 36-61; Appian, The Civil Wars 2.1-7

For a model of the debate in Sallust, see Thucydides 3.36-49

Cicero, In Defense of Lucius Murena (in Speeches)

How to answer a gobbet question

Cicero, In Defense of the Poet Archias (in Speeches)

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Lucretius, The Way Things Are books 1 and 2

Lucretius, The Way Things Are book 3; Cicero, The Dream of Scipio (in GL)

Music of the Spheres (Jupiter)   Interstellar    Pulsars

Medieval multiverse, and nine concentric spheres

Lucretius, The Way Things Are book 5

Appian, Civil Wars 2.8-19; Plutarch, Life of Caesar 1-14; Plutarch, Life of Crassus 14-17; Plutarch, Life of Pompey 46-55;
Catullus Poems 29, 49, 52-54, 57, 84, 93-94, 113-115

Caesar, books 1-2

Caesar, books 3-4

Cicero, Against Lucius Calpurnius Piso (in Speeches)

Cicero In Defense of Marcus Caelius (in Speeches); Catullus Poems 79

See especially Harold C. Gotoff, "Cicero's Analysis of the Prosecution Speeches in the Pro Caelio: An Exercise in Practical Criticism," CPh 81 (1986) 122-132

Catullus Poems 1-16, 21-28, 35-45

Cicero Letter 20 to Lentulus Spinther (xerox), Letters to Quintus nos.5-7, 9 (xerox)

Caesar, books 5-6

Caesar, book 7

Cicero Letters to his friends 18-20, 24 and to Quintus 21-27; Appian, The Civil Wars 2.20-33

Caesar, BG book 8 and BC 1.1-29; Cicero Letters to his friends 77-98, 149-157

Brief Notes to Caesar BC

Cicero, On Behalf of Marcus Marcellus (in Speeches); On Duties pp. 120-143 (in GL)

Cicero, Fourth Philippic Oration and Ninth Philippic Oration (in Speeches)

Cicero, Letters to his friends 325-329, 336, 348-349, 409-428

Laudatio Turiae

Augustus' Res gestae; (Res gestae divi Augusti can also be found here)

Research response due by noon

May
9  Final examination 7:30-10:15 a.m.

Final grade will be based upon:
Midterm exam 25%
Six quizzes (approximately every other week) 30%
Research response (instructions forthcoming) 15%
Final exam (cumulative) 30%

Suggestions for background reading: M. Beard and M. Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic (Ithaca 1985). DG254 .B37 1985
M. Beard and M. Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic: Problems and Intrpretations (London 1999). DG254 .B37 1999
J. Boardman, J. Griffin, O. Murray, The Oxford History of the Roman World (Oxford 1991).
M. Crawford, The Roman Republic (Harvard 1982). DG235 .C7 1978, DG235 .C7 1993
Erik Hildinger, Swords against the Senate: the Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic (Cambridge, MA 2002). DG254.2 .H558 2002
Arthur Keaveney. The Army in the Roman Revolution (London 2007). DG254.2 .K43 2007
T. Africa, The Immense Majesty (New York 1974). DG210 .A4 1991
H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero 5th ed. (New York 1982). Detailed. DG254 .S35 1976b, DG254 .S35 1982, DG254 .S35 1988
E.S. Gruen, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (Berkeley 1974). Very detailed. DG254.2 .G78