History of Rome Syllabus Spring 2003

CLASSICS/HISTORY 122

HISTORY OF ROME

SPRING 2003

Barbara Saylor Rodgers	11:00-12:15 Tuesday and Thursday
481 Main Street, room 301	004 Kalkin

Choose your topic for the final project

Times when you can make an appointment to see me about your project(s) or test.

Information about the final, which will take place Tuesday 6 May at 8:00 a.m. in 004 Kalkin. I will be in my office Monday morning 9-12.

Required Texts:

You may also read very detailed online lectures by Christopher Mackay at this link. Scroll down the page to get to the links for individual topics.

H.H. Scullard. A History of the Roman World 753 to 146 BC third, Fourth, or Fifth Edition (= History) [Note chronological table at end of book, beginning p. 449 (Third Edition) or p. 420 (Fifth Edition)]
H.H. Scullard. From the Gracchi to Nero Fifth Edition (= Gracchi)
Cicero. Selected Works (= Works) (cited by work or page numbers)
Caesar. Civil War Oxford (cited by book)
Livy. The War with Hannibal (Books 21-30). Penguin (cited by book)
Tacitus. Complete Works: Annals, Histories, Agricola, Germania, Dialogus (cited by work and book)

Recommended Text :
Theodor Mommsen. A History of Rome under the Emperors (evidently out of print)

On reserve in the library:

H.H. Scullard. A History of the Roman World 753 to 146 BC Fourth Edition. (three copies are or will be on reserve; each a different edition; the chapters are more or less the same; not all have indices)
H.H. Scullard. From the Gracchi to Nero Fifth Edition
Theodor Mommsen. A History of Rome under the Emperors
M. LeGlay, J.-L. Voisin, Y. LeBohec. A History of Rome Second Edition (= LeGlay)
Max Cary and H.H. Scullard. A History of Rome down to the Reign of Constantine (= Cary)
Livy. The Early History of Rome (books 1-5)
Livy. Rome and the Mediterranean (books 31-45)
Cicero. Selected Works
Tacitus. Complete Works: Annals, Histories, Agricola, Germania, Dialogus

Calendar and Assignments

Note: The reading assignments are liable to change from time to time. Be sure to check. Items in square brackets are not required but recommended.

In response to questions about when assignments are due: you are supposed to read the things listed for each class before class that day. Links to things on line, unless in square brackets or indented (e.g., Resources for the Punic Wars, under February 11, is for interest only), are also assigned reading.

Link to information on major research projects

Roman Names with a list of abbreviations used for first names

January
14 Sources; Greeks, Etruscans, Italians, Latium, and Rome
History (3d ed.) chapter 1 and Appendices 1-3 (Appendices begin p. 405) or (4th-5th ed.) chapters 1 and 19
[Cary chapters 1-4 and 6; LeGlay pp. 2-4 and ch. 1]

Map of the Four Servian Regions

16 The Kings of Early Rome. Roman Social Structure and Religion
History chapters 2 and 18, and Appendix 4 (3d ed.)
[Livy book 1]
[Cary chapter 5; LeGlay ch. 2]

Map of Rome and Central Italy in Regal Period

Maps showing Roman expansion

21 Conflict of the Orders I. The Latins and Other Italians
History chapter 3 and Appendix 5 (3d ed.)
Livy on Fetial Law
[Livy books 2-4]
[Cary chapters 7 and 8.1-3; LeGlay ch. 3]

Map Showing Roman Hegemony 390 BCE

23 The Gauls. Conflict of the Orders II
History chapters 4-5 and Appendix 6 (3d ed.)
[Livy books 5-7]
[Cary chapters 8.4 and 9]

Chronological Table of Civil and Military Events

28 Rome Ascendant; Pyrrhus
History chapter 6
[Livy books 8-10]
[Cary chapter 10; LeGlay ch. 4]

Map Showing Roman Citizenship and Alliances Before First Punic War

Livy on line

30 Rome in the Third Century BCE
History chapter 16
Livy Books 21-23 Study Guide for Livy
[Cary chapter 11]

List of Consuls 300 BCE to 68 CE

February
4 The First Punic War
History chapter 7 and Appendix 7 (3d ed.)
Livy Books 24-25
[Cary chapter 12]

Map of Sicily

Study Sheet for Test 1

6 The Second Punic War
History chapter 8 and Appendix 8 (3d ed.)
Livy Books 26-28
Polybius on causes
Polybius on Cannae
[Cary chapter 13]

Battle of Cannae with pictures

11 The Second Punic War
History chapters 9-10
Livy Books 29-30

Resources for the Punic Wars: (Observations about these on-line resources)
http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/historia/republic/punic1.htm
http://campus.northpark.edu/history//WebChron/Mediterranean/2ndPunic.html

13 Examination

18 The Macedonian Wars and the Hellenistic East
History chapters 11-13, and Appendices 9-11 (3d ed.)
Agelaus of Naupactus makes a prophecy
[Livy books 31-34]
[Cary chapters 15 and 16]

A Macedonian phalanx

Research Project 1 due

20 Rome in the West
History chapter 14 and Appendix 12 (3d ed.)
[Livy books 35-40]
[Cary chapter 14; LeGlay ch. 5]

25 Second-Century Rome: government and society
History chapters 15 and 17; Gracchi chapter 1
[Livy books 41-45; Polybius Book 6 (especially valuable for description of the Roman army)]
[Cary chapters 17-19]

Dramatis Personae: Major players for the years 134-43 BCE

27 The Gracchi and Marius
Gracchi chapters 2-3
Plutarch Lives of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

March
4 Town Meeting Day

6 The Social War; Sulla
Gracchi chapter 4
Plutarch Life of Marius, Life of Sulla

Background on Mithridates VI

Map showing Roman Citizenship after Social War

11 Pompey, Lucullus, Crassus; Cicero
Gracchi chapters 5-6
Cicero On Old Age (Works) and Works pp. 61-69

13 First-Century Rome
Gracchi chapters 9-10; Cicero Against Verres (Works)

25 Caesar in Rome, Gaul, and Britain
Gracchi chapter 7 pp. 126-134; Cicero Works pp. 69-77; Caesar Civil War Book 1

Research Project 2 due

27 Civil War (I)
Gracchi chapter 7 pp. 134-153; Caesar Civil War Books 3 and Alexandrian War; Cicero Workspp. 78-90

April
1 Civil War (II) and the Second Triumvirate
Gracchi chapter 8; Cicero On Duties III and Second Philippic (Works), Works pp. 90-98

3 Examination

Study Sheet
Study Sheet like the last one

8 The Augustan Settlement
Gracchi chapter 11; Tacitus Annals Book 1
Notes on Tacitus

10 Augustus and Tiberius
Gracchi chapter 12-13; Tacitus Annals Books 2.82-88, 3.18-36, 3.49-76, 4.1-36

15 The Julio-Claudians
Gracchi chapter 14; Tacitus Annals Books 11-13

17 The First Century CE
Gracchi chapter 15-16; Tacitus Annals Books 14-16

22 The Year of Four Emperors; The Flavians
Tacitus Histories Books 1, 3.59-86, 4.1-52, 5.1-13

List of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Heraclius

24 The Best of Emperors
Tacitus Dialogus

29 The Five Good Emperors; The Second Century CE

30 Final Project due by 5:00 p.m. at 481 Main Street

Leave in my office or in box outside office door, not in mailboxes downstairs

Tuesday 6 May Final Examination at 8:00 a.m. 004 Kalkin

Study Sheet for Final

There are two 75-minute examinations and a final examination.

There will be two minor and one major research projects (not papers), 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).

Link to information on major research projects

Final grade will be computed as follows: 20% for each examination (including the final), 20% for the major research project, 10% for each of the minor projects.

Telephone 656-4607
bsaylor@zoo.uvm.edu
barbara.rodgers@uvm.edu

Office hours: Tuesday 2-3, Wednesday 9-12, and by appointment