CLASSICS 23/HISTORY 22
FALL 2000
10:10-11:00 MWF
Barbara Saylor Rodgers
401 Waterman
Contact instructor
TEXTS:
W.E. Kaegi & P. White, Readings in Western Civilization 2
Robert B. Kebric, Roman People
Jo-Ann Shelton, As the Romans Did
I
Roman Society and Early Roman History
Sep.
1 Kings and aristocrats
Notes
Kebric pp. 1–15; Shelton pp. 1–13 (Intro. and nos. 1-8); 359–386
nos. 402–428
Pictorial and other resources, the
Lacus
Curtius Home Page
II
Third and Early Second Centuries
4 Labor Day holiday
6 Aristocrats and people:
secessions of plebs
Notes
8 Expansion in Italy; Pyrrhic
victories
Notes
Shelton pp. 203-213 nos. 251-259; 243-249 no. 291
Livy book 4.10–16
Text
, book 5.32–55
Text
, Plutarch
Life
of Camillus.
III
Security: Military Adventures, East and West
11 Sicily and the First
Punic war
Notes
13 Second Punic war
Notes
Kaegi-White no. 1; Kebric chapter 1 pp. 15–32; Shelton pp. 249–51
no. 292; 309–311 no. 352
Some on-line Geographical Resources:
Map of
the Roman Empire and
Map of Roman
Provinces
IIII
Domestic Developments
18 Agriculture and agribusiness
20 Slavery and
slave-rebellions
Notes
22 The People's Tribunes
Notes
Kaegi-White no. 19; Kebric chapter 2; Shelton pp. 148-158
nos. 187-191
Plutarch
Life
of Tiberius Gracchus
V
The Military and the Generals
Cicero
Oration
for Roscius of Ameria
VI
The Last Generation of the Republic
Oct.
2 Provincial administration
6 Families
Kaegi-White no. 13; Shelton chapters II, III, and pp. 272–284 nos. 319–321
VII
The "First Triumvirate"
13 Fall recess
Kaegi-White nos. 2–4, Shelton pp. 220–226 nos. 263–266
Cicero
Oration
for Titus Annius Milo
VIII
Civil War I
16 Domestic politics, foreign
wars
Notes on Caesar's conquest of Gaul
18 Caesar's wars;
Cicero's choice
Notes
Kaegi-White nos. 5 & 6; Kebric chapter 3
Caesar Gallic War book 5
Text
.
VIIII
Life in the Late Republic and Early Empire
23 City life
25 Country life
27 Poets and society
Notes
Kaegi-White no. 20; Shelton chapters V, VI, VII and pp. 314–328 nos. 355–375
Catullus
Poems 29,
49-58,
65, 67, 69-72, 75-77, 79, 83-88, 92, 93, 95, 107, 113-116
See also
Poems
of Catullus (in prose translation)
For a text of Lucretius, look
here
X
Civil War II
3
The Augustan Settlement
Notes
Kaegi-White nos. 7, 8, 21, 22; Kebric chapter 4; Shelton
pp. 225-242 nos. 266-290
XI
Gold?
6 Augustan poetry
8 Julio-Claudian women
10
Senate and people
Kaegi-White nos. 9 & 10; Kebric chapters 5 and 10; Shelton
chapter
XIII
To read all of Book 1 of Tacitus'
Annales Look
here
Find the poetry of Horace, Virgil, and Ovid on
Perseus
XII
Julio-Claudians and Flavians
15
Four emperors in one year
NotesXIII
Silver?
20
The turn of the century
22
Thanksgiving holiday
24
Thanksgiving holiday
XIIII The
Second
and Third Centuries
27
The Five Good Emperors
Notes
29
Senate and prince
Text of some of Pliny's
letters to Trajan, and some responses
Kaegi-White nos. 12, 14-17; Kebric chapter 8
XV
Epilogue
4 The late empire
6 The importance of being
Trajan
PROJECT DUE
Kaegi-White nos. 18, 28-30; Kebric chapter 9, Epilogue; Shelton pp.
406-430 nos. 444-473
11
FINAL
EXAMINATION at 8:00 a.m.
To see information about the
final, click here
READINGS should, save for the first
week of classes, be done prior to the first lecture of the week under which
they are listed.
GRADE in the course is based upon three factors:
Hour examination (20 October): 30 points
Project: 30 points
late projects will be marked down 5 percentage points per weekday (weekends
free)
Final examination (cumulative): 40
points
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