| CLASSICS/HISTORY 122 |
HISTORY OF ROME |
SPRING 2007
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| Barbara Saylor Rodgers |
12:30-1:45 Tuesday and Thursday
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| 481 Main Street, room 301 |
427 Waterman
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Maps of various provinces of the Roman empire
The seven hills of Rome18 The Kings of Early Rome. Roman Social Structure and Religion
Regions of the city23 Conflict of the Orders I. The Latins and Other Italians
Remains of the XII Tables (in Latin)25 The Gauls. Conflict of the Orders II
Some of the old Laws (in English)
Another English version
Chronological Table of Civil and Military Events30 Rome Ascendant; Pyrrhus
Map of Greek and Phoenician colonizationFebruary
Map of Sicily6 The Second Punic War
Resources for the Punic Wars:8 The Macedonian Wars and the Hellenistic EastPrincipal areas of Mediterranean at opening of Second Punic War
13 Examination (through end of Second Punic War)
15 Rome in the West
Polybius books 36, 39; Romans chapter 4 pages 119-135
[Livy books 35-40; Scullard History
chapter 14; LeGlay chapter 5
pp.
91-105]
20 Second-Century Rome: government and society
Polybius books 6 and 31; Romans chapter 5
[Livy books 41-45; Scullard History
chapters 15 and 17;
Gracchi chapter 1; LeGlay chapter 5 pp. 106-123]
[Plutarch Life of M.
Porcius Cato (censor)]
Dramatis Personae: Major players for the years 134-43 BCE22 The Gracchi and Marius
Rome in Italy 500-100 BCE
27 The Social War; Sulla
Plutarch Lives of Marius
and Sulla;
Romans chapter 7
[Scullard Gracchi chapter 4; Plutarch
Life of Sertorius]
Background on Mithradates VIMarch
The Roman Forum6 Town Meeting Day
8 First-Century Rome
Cicero Against Verres (Works), fragments of In toga candida, his election speech
[Scullard Gracchi chapters 9-10]
[Sallust Bellum
Catilinae; Plutarch Life of C. Iulius
Caesar; Suetonius Life
of Caesar]
Research Project due by 5:00 p.m. at 481 Main Street12-16 Spring recessLeave in my office or in box outside office door, not in mailboxes downstairs
20 Caesar in Rome, Gaul, and Britain
Cicero Works pp. 69-77; Caesar Civil War Book 1
[Caesar Gallic War; Scullard
Gracchi chapter 7 pp.
126-134]
Gaul in first century BCE22 Civil War (I)
27 Civil War (II) and the Second Triumvirate
Cicero On Duties III and Second Philippic
(Works), Works pp. 90-98
[Scullard Gracchi chapter 8]
[Plutarch Lives of M.
Antonius and M.
Iunius Brutus]
Coin Portraits of Cleopatra and M. Antonius29 The Augustan Settlement
April
3 Examination (through 41 BCE)
5 Augustus and Tiberius
Tacitus Annals Books 2.82-88, 3.18-36, 3.49-76, 4.1-36
[Scullard Gracchi chapters 12-13;
LeGlay chapter 8]
[Suetonius Life
of Tiberius]
Trade routes in the first century CE10 The Julio-Claudians
12 The First Century CE
Tacitus Annals Books 14-16
[Scullard Gracchi chapters 15-16]
List of Provinces as of 69 CE17 The Year of Four Emperors; The Flavians
List of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Heraclius
19 The Best of Emperors
Tacitus Dialogus; Romans chapter 11
24 The Five Good Emperors; The Second Century CE
Romans chapter 12
[LeGlay chapters 11, 13]
Expansion of Rome 264 BCE - 180 CE26 The Severi; The Third Century CE
Provinces of the Eastern Roman EmpireMay
Roman Empire in 395 CE4 Final Examination at 8:00 a.m. in 427 Waterman
There are two 75-minute examinations and a final examination.
There will be one research project consisting of an annotated bibliography and a thesis statement. The bibliography must contain both primary and secondary sources and an assessment of those sources. Preliminary drafts are strongly encouraged. Late projects cost five percentage points per weekday (weekends free).
Telephone 656-4607
bsaylor@zoo.uvm.edu
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2-3, Wednesday 11-12, and by appointment
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Last updated: 18 February 2007 Send Comments to: Barbara Rodgers, barbara.rodgers@uvm.edu Copyright © 2007 UVM Classics Department All Rights Reserved. |
