HY304
Roman History
Spring 2005
MWF 10-10:50
Clark A 206
SYLLABUS
(http://lamar.colostate.edu/~jgaughan/courses/304/HY304Syllabus.htm)
Link to texts, requirements and evaluation, expectations, schedule
Appian, The Civil Wars, Penguin, 1996.
Boatwright, Mary T. et al., The Romans: From Village to Empire, Oxford University Press 2004.
Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, Penguin, 1987.
Anon. Lives of the Later Caesars, Anthony Birley, trans., Penguin, 1976.
Livy, The Early History of Rome, Penguin, 1960.
Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic, Penguin, 1958.
Tacitus, Complete Works of Tacitus, Moses Hadas (ed.), The Modern Library, 1942.
Virgil, Aeneid, Allen Mandelbaum (trans.) Bantam, 1971.Other translations are acceptable.
Requirement |
Description |
Due Date |
Value |
| Participation in class discussion | Mandatory regular participation based on careful reading of assigned material. | daily | 15% |
| Formal Presentations | Two formal class presentations based on interpretation of primary texts. | Mondays | 15% |
| Quizzes | May include geography and chronology; may be announced or unannounced; in-class or take-home. | periodically | 10% |
| Essays | 500-word paper and outlines | Feb. 1 & 6 | 10% |
| 2500-3000-word paper | April 17 | 20% |
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| Thesis and Topic Sentences | April 7 | 5% |
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| Exams | Might include any combination of the following: essay, passage interpretation, short answer, identification, matching, geography, and chronology. | Midterm, Feb 27 | 10% |
| Final, Wednes. May 10, 7:00-9:00 AM | 15% |
NOTE:
- The professor uses a +/- grading system.
- Come to class prepared with the ancient texts in hand.
- Attendance is mandatory each time a written assignment is due in class.
EXPECTATIONS
Come to class regularly and on time. Do the work on time. No late work will be accepted and no make-up quizzes will be given. Behave like considerate, mature, and ethical adults who want to learn about Roman history. If necessary, further advice is available.
UNDERSTANDING READING ASSIGNMENTS
Reading assignments are due on the date posted on the schedule.
Where possible ancient citations are used. This means that the first number you see usually indicates the book number. This is followed by a period. The second number or set of numbers you see indicates the chapter number or line number(s). A comma or semi-colon is used when listing a series of the same value. This means, for example, thaton January 23 you will be reading book 2 and book 6 of the Aeneid in their entirety and from book 8 you will be reading lines 833 until the end of book 8.
on January 30 you will be reading chapters 1-33 of book 2 and chapters 31-47 of book 3. (Note: The page numbers provided for the Livy text are applicable to the 2002 reprint of Ogilvie's Penguin translation.)
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 OVERVIEWFRIDAY, JANUARY 20 AUGUSTUS AND THE AENEID
Aeneid 1 (entire)
Boatwright, pp. 288-298
Study GuideMONDAY, JANUARY 23 AENEID
Aeneid 2; 6; 8.833-end (of book 8)
Study Guide
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 AENEID
Aeneid 12 (entire)
Boatwright, pp. 1-31
Study GuideFRIDAY, JANUARY 27 EARLY ROME, MONARCHY
Livy, 1
Boatwright, pp. 32-48
Check this out!
Study GuideMONDAY, JANUARY 30
Catch-up session, no new reading
This schedule has been updated. The dates are correct.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 EARLY ROME, XII TABLES
Livy, 2.1-33 (pp 107-147); 3.31-47 (middle of p. 233 - top of p. 252)
XII Tables
Boatwright, pp. 48-53
Study GuideFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3LOGICAL ARGUMENTS
TWO OUTLINES DUE TODAY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 STRUGGLE OF THE ORDERS
Livy, 4.1-7, (pp 287-296) 4.54 (pp 353-354)
Boatwright, pp. 53-57
Study GuideWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8: EXPANSION IN ITALY
Boatwright, 58-95
Livy 5.23 (bottom of 395 - top of 397), skim 33-end (p 408-435)
Study GuideFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10: CONFLICT WITH CARTHAGE
Read ancient texts under "The War with Carthage" (from "The Carthaginian Attack on Sicily" to "The Character of Hannibal")
The Cornelius Nepos link from The Ancient History Sourcebook does not work. Please view those passages here.
Boatwright, p. 97-119
Treaties Handout
A useful interactive map
FINAL DRAFT OF 1ST PAPER - New Due Date
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 EXPANSION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Read the last few paragraphs of Plutarch, Life of Cato, starting with "Some will have the overthrow of Carthage..." (sorry, no chapter numbers at this site)
Polybius on the Third Punic War
Polybius on the destruction of Corinth
Boatwright, pp. 119-135
Study Guide
Here's an interactive map of the Second Punic War
Here's another map with chronology
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 ROMAN GOVERNMENT
Polybius, book 6: here or here
Cicero, On the Republic 1.35-40
Study Guide
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 ROMAN SOCIAL HIERARCHY
Boatwright, pp. 136-156
Read the brief description at vroma.org
Study Guide
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 TIBERIUS AND GAIUS GRACCHUS
Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus Read from the paragraph starting "This young Tiberius, accordingly, serving in Africa…" to the end of the text.
Plutarch, Life of Gaius Gracchus Read from the paragraph beginning "This was thought to be the chief reason that he failed of being the third time elected tribune" to the end of the text.
Be prepared to discuss the answers to the Study Guide questions on the two biographies written by Plutarch.
Boatwright, pp. 156-165
Study Guide
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 POLITICS, SOCIETY AND THE RUNNING OF ROME
No reading Assigned
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 MIDTERM EXAM -new date
15% Identify important people, things, dates; 35% passage interpretation; 50% essay. There will be choices in each section.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 MARIUS AND THE SOCIAL WAR
Boatwright, pp. 166-185
Plutarch, Life of Marius (in Fall of the Roman Republic) 3-4, 6-13, 28-33
Plutarch, Life of Sulla (in Fall of the Roman Republic), 3-6
Study Guide
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 SULLA: CIVIL WAR & DICTATORSHIP
Boatwright, pp. 185-204
Plutarch, Life of Marius (in Fall of the Roman Republic) 34-36, 41-46
Plutarch, Life of Sulla (in Fall of the Roman Republic), read translator's introduction to Sulla's life, 1, 7-10, 22-25, 27-38
Study Guide
FRIDAY, MARCH 3 ROME IN THE 70s and 60s
Boatwright, pp. 204-208, 211-223
Plutarch, Life of Crassus 1-4, 6-13
Plutarch, Life of Pompey 6-21
Plutarch, Life of Cicero 6-23
Cicero, Letters (at Halsall site) # II
Sallust, Catilinarian Conspiracy, excerpts
Study Guide
You might also take a glance at the up-coming study guide
MONDAY, MARCH 6 RELIGION AND SOCIETY
For a brief overview see this site.
Look at images here of the statues of a lar, genius, and one of the penates; also # 62 and 63. Note the descriptions as well. On Friday 3/3/06 these links (to Barbara McManus' vroma page) were not working. If they are not working for you, please go here and look at the two lararia (sing. lararium) and the Penates and Lares.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 RELIGION AND POLITICS
Plutarch, Life of Numa, ix-xiv, xix-xx.
Livy 29.27.1-4
"Accounts of Roman State Religion" and "The Flamen Dialis and his Wife" and "The Prayer of Scipio Africanus" at Halsall site.
Lefkowitz, et al., Women's life in Greece and Rome, #409, 412, 413 at Diotima.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10 FOREIGN RELIGIONS
Livy on the Bacchanalian Conspiracy
Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus
Under Religiones Licitiae and Illicitae, read about Magna Mater
Lucretius on worship of Cybele
FORMAL PRESENTATIONS
MARCH 13, 15, 17 SPRING BREAK
MONDAY, MARCH 20 ROMAN FAMILY
Gaius, Institutes 1.9-12, 48-51, 55-64, 97-120, 142-184, 190-193
We will be discussing this text in class - bring it with you.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 WOMEN AND POLITICS
Cicero. Letters (at Halsall site) # XI (second paragraph), XVII (second pargraph), XIX (only the paragraph about Lepta) , XXVII (entire)
Lefkowitz, et al., Women's Life in Greece and Rome #167, 168, 173-178
Readings on Cornelia.
Boatwright, pp. 209-211.
FURNISS LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS
(extra credit option)DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN AND SCHOLAR
ERICH GRUEN"IDENTITY THEFT IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN"
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 7 PM
NATRS 113"GREEK PERCEPTIONS OF PERSIA"
THURSDAY 11:00 AM
Lory Student Center 203-205FRIDAY, MARCH 24 ROMAN REVOLUTION: THE 50s AND THE RISE OF CAESAR
Appian, The Civil Wars 1.120-121, 2.8-37
Plutarch, Life of Crassus 14-16
Plutarch, Life of Pompey 22-23, 25-26, 30-31, 43-44, 47-61
Plutarch, Life of Cicero 28-37
Plutarch, Life of Caesar 1-2, 9-10, 13-14, 17, 21, 28-32
Boatwright, pp. 225-246
Study GuideMONDAY, MARCH 27 ROMAN REVOLUTION: CAESAR'S DICTATORSHIP
Cicero, Letters selections, section 1 "Crossing Various Rubicons"
Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 27-33 (= XXVII-XXXIII)
Appian, The Civil Wars 2.41, 82, 86, 98-99, 101, 106-107
Plutarch, Life of Pompey 62-63, 65, 71, 77
Plutarch, Life of Cicero 38-40
Plutarch, Life of Caesar 37, 46, 51, 54-59
Boatwright, pp. 246-254WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 ROMAN REVOLUTION: FALL OF CAESAR AND RE-EMERGENCE OF CIVIL WAR
Cicero's Letters selections section 2 "After the Ides of March"
Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 40-44, 76, 78, 80, 83, 85, 89 (= XL-XLIV, LXXVI, LXXVIII, LXXX, LXXXIII, LXXXV, LXXXIX)
Appian, The Civil Wars 2.108-148; 3.1, 9-1
Plutarch, Life of Cicero 42
Plutarch, Life of Caesar, 60-69
Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus 19-27
Boatwright, pp. 254-265FRIDAY, MARCH 31 ROMAN REVOLUTION: TRIUMVIRATE
Appian, The Civil Wars 4.2-16, 19-20, 32-35, 113-114; 5.1-3, 8-12, 14, 18-19, 48-49, 59-66, 71-74, 76, 143-145
Suetonius, Life of Augustus 9-17
Plutarch, Life of Cicero 43-49
Cicero, Letters selections section 3 "Misunderstanding Octavian"
Cassius Dio 50.1, 3-7, 15
Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus 6, 8, 13, 16-18, 28-30
Boatwright, pp. 267-288
(OPTIONAL) Cicero, 2 Philippics 25, 29-34, 88-89, 100, 118MONDAY, APRIL 3 ROMAN REVOLUTION: DOMINANCE OF OCTAVIAN
Cassius Dio 51.1-3, 10-15, 19-22
Augustus, Res Gestae (entire)
Boatwright, pp. 288-298WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 AUGUSTUS
Cassius Dio 52.1, 14 (with bracketed paragraph immediately preceding 14)-40; 53.1-16
Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus 1, 2, 7
Suetonius, Life of Augustus 19, 22, 24 - 65, 93
Boatwright, pp. 299-316
Find a fascinating history of this period in images here. Visiting this particular site is optional.FRIDAY, APRIL 7 AUGUSTUS AND TIBERIUS
Suetonius, Life of Augustus 100-101
Suetonius, Life of Tiberius 7-12, 14-23
Cassius Dio 54.27-28, 35; 55.2, 9-13, 32; 56.32, 43, 45-47
Velleius Paterculus 2.94, 97, 99, 104, 122, 124, 126 (Please note, Velleius oten refers to Tiberius by the name Nero.)
Augustus, Res Gestae 8, 14, 27, 30
Tacitus, Annals 3.56
Boatwright, pp. 317-324
MONDAY, APRIL 10 HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS
THESIS AND TOPIC SENTENCES DUE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 TIBERIUS: EMPERORS AND THE SENATE
Tacitus, Annals 1.8, 11-15, 72-81; 3.12-18; 4.1-4, 6-13, 39-41, 52-54, 57-60; 5.1-9.
Study GuideFRIDAY, APRIL 14 CALIGULA, CLAUDIUS AND NERO
Tacitus, Annals 12.66-69; 13.1-8, 10-34, 45-52; 14.1-18, 52-57, 60, 65; 15.37-44; 16.6-7
Suetonius, Nero 57.
Boatwright, pp. 324-351
Study GuideMONDAY, APRIL 17 VESPASIAN & SONS: EMPERORS & ARMY
Tacitus, Histories 2.73-101; 3.68-69, 78-86; 4.2, 51-54; 5.1
Map of Rome during Vespasian's reign
Boatwright, pp. 353-366
Study Guide
FORMAL PRESENTATIONS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 TRAJAN: MILITARY EXPANSION
Boatwright, pp. 367-373
Lives of the Later Caesars, Trajan pp 38-54
Study Guide
FRIDAY, APRIL 21 TRAJAN AND PLINY: PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Pliny, Letters 10.1, 14-17, 23-25, 27, 30-102, 109-122 (at this site go to "Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan," (which is the same as book 10), ignore the "parts" and just go by the unbolded Roman numerals, starting with number I. "To the emperor Trajan"
MONDAY, APRIL 24 HADRIAN: ARCHITECTURE AND EMPIRE
The Augustan History, Hadrian chapters 9-14 (pp. 66-72), 19, (bottom of p. 77-78), 21 (p. 80-middle of p. 81). You should own this text, but if not, it is also available on-line here.
Boatwright, pp. 373-392WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 MARCUS AURELIUS: PHILOSOPHY IN ROME
The Augustan History, Marcus Antoninus; The Philosopher chapters 4-7 (bottom of p. 111- to bottom of p. 114); 10-11 (pp. 119-120), 16 (pp. 124-125), 19 (bottom of p. 126- top of p. 128).
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1 (entire), 2.16-17; 3.11; 5.22; Unfortunately, this cite does not have chapter numbers, but if you count the paragraphs you can get to the correct passage. Watch out for book 5, which has one paragraph break where there should not be one.
Boatwright, pp. 393-404For a written copy of the production you saw in class, see here.
FRIDAY, APRIL 28 COMMODUS AND THE SEVERANS; LAW AND CITIZENSHIP
Boatwright, pp. 416-425
The Augustan History, Commodus (entire) pp. 161-178
Boatwright, pp. 405-416
Study GuideMONDAY, MAY 1 DIOCLETIAN: ADMINISTRATION OF EMPIRE
Diocletian's Edicts
Boatwright, pp. 431-446
See a stemma for the Tetrarchs
OPTIONAL
FINAL DRAFT DUE
Wednesday or Friday of this week depending
on when you received your second draft back.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 CHRISTIANITY IN ROME
Tacitus, Histories 5.5
Pliny Letters 10.96, 97 (the last two letters on this page)
Martyrdom of Perpetua
Cannibalism charges
Papyrus from the reign of Decius
Edicts of toleration by Galerius and Constantine
Boatwright, pp. 425-430
FRIDAY, MAY 5 CONSTANTINE
Eusebius, Church History 27-32
Boatwright, pp. 447-457
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM: Wednesday May 10, 7:00-9:00 AM
EXTRA OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday, May 9, 10:00-12:00 AM
