CLAS-HST 122: History of
Spring
2005
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TEXTS |
MAPS |
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Internet Ancient
History Sourcebook: ROME Livy’s History books 9-10;
20-26 Livy’s History of Rome:
bks. 27-36 Polybius:
Treaties with Carthage 3.22-28 Suetonius’ Lives
of the Caesars Christian Histories,
Biographies... |
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IMAGES |
Journals
& Search |
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Roman Busts (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark) Inscriptions
(select < Lacus Curtius) |
American Journal of
Archaeology |
HRP 1-41; Livy bks. 1-2
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1-19 |
Mediterranean Context: Phoenicians,
Etruscans and Greeks
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1-21 |
Rex: Monarchs & Tyrants in the Mediterranean World |
Week
2:
HRP 42-77; Livy bks 3-5; 12 Tables of Law
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1-24 |
Monumenta & Historia: |
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1-26 |
Plebs: Social History of Early |
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1-28 |
Lex: The Decemvirate and the Twelve Tables |
Week
3:
HRP 91-114;
Livy: 6-10 (Preface Bk. 6; ‘Caudine Forks’ Bk 9.1-16; ‘Alexander Digression’ 9.17-19)
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1-31 |
Italia: Tribes, Languages & Treaties |
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2-2 |
Bellum: |
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2-4 |
Duces: Consuls, Dictators & Consular Tribunes |
HRP 115-152; Livy: 21-30 (Selections); Polybius ‘Treaties’
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2-7 |
Mos Maiorum: Senatorial Politics in the 3rd century |
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2-9 |
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2-11 |
Carthage & Rome: War & Devastation |
HRP 153-196;
Livy 31-45 (Selections); Plutarch’s
Life of Cato (Selection); Cicero (Selections)
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2-14 |
Graecia: Rome’s Eastern Entanglements |
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2-16 |
Gallia et Hispania: Rome’s Western Possessions |
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2-18 |
Quaestio: Roman Law in the Courts 149-49 b.c. |
HRP 199-250;
Plutarch’s Life of Tiberius Gracchus;
Life of Sulla
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2-21 |
HOLIDAY |
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2-23 |
Optimates et Populares: Gracchi, Marius and Sulla Research #1 |
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2-25 |
Amicitia et Factio: Pompey and Caesar |
HRP 251-299; Augustus Deeds of the Divine Augustus
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2-28 |
Dictator: Caesar’s Sole Rule |
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3-2 |
Triumviri: The Development of Octavian |
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3-4 |
Auctoritas: Augustus’s Legitimacy |
Week
8: Julio-Claudian and Flavian Emperors
HRP 300-334; Tacitus,
Annales 1-6; 13-16; Suetonius Lives (selections);
Velleius Paterculus (Bk 2)
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3-7 |
Imperium: the Shaping of the Empire |
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3-9 |
Tiberius: Competing Portraits |
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3-11 |
EXAM #1 EXAM #1 |
Week
9: 2nd Century Rome: Political & Cultural Developments
HRP 335-376;
Suetonius Life of Vespasian; Tacitus’ Histories
I; Aelius Life of Hadrian;
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3-14 |
Nero: Culture and Chaos |
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3-16 |
Flavians: Restoration and Stability |
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3-18 |
5 Good Emperors: Trajan & Hadrian |
Week
10: 3rd Century Rome
HRP 377-419; Historia
Augusta: Lives of Marcus Aurelius; Septimius Severus; Gallienus
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3-28 |
5 Good Emperors: Marcus Aurelius |
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3-30 |
Septimius Severus: New Heights |
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4-1 |
Historia Augusta: Anarchy |
Week
11: 3rd & 4th Century Rome
HRP 420-448; Eusebius Life
of
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4-4 |
Diocletian: Tetrarchy |
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4-6 |
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4-8 |
The Heirs of |
Week
12: Pagans & Barbarians
HRP 449-486; Ammianus Marcellinus (Selections)
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4-11 |
Julian the Apostate: Paganism |
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4-13 |
Valentinian & Valens |
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4-15 |
Barbarians: Defining the Other |
Week
13: Late Antiquity – West and East
HRP 487-512
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4-18 |
Theodosius |
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4-20 |
The End of |
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4-22 |
Justinian & Theodora
RESEARCH #2 |
Week
14: Transformations
HRP 513-541
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4-25 |
Justinian |
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4-27 |
Western Developments |
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4-29 |
Byzantium |
Week
15: Review
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4-2 |
Review |
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4-4 |
Review |
Exam
1 – Midterm: 30%
Research
#1 – 20%
Research
#2 – 20%
EXAM:
May – 30 %