CLCS 483:  REPUBLICAN ROME

TUES/THURS 1:30 - 2:45 am;

SC 102

 

Prof. Nicholas K. Rauh

FLL/SC 211

OFFICE HOURS:  Tues.&Thurs. 11:45-12:30PM; 2:45-4:00 PM; and by appt.

Phone:  496-6079

email: rauhn@purdue.edu

 

 

NEW SCHEDULE:

·     SECONDARY SOURCE PAPER WILL BE DUE MONDAY OCT. 28

·     BROUGHTON MRR ESSAY WILL BE DUE SUNDAY NOV. 10 (CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO BOOK)

·     NO CLASS TUESDAY NOV. 5 or THURS. NOV. 7, (prepare Broughton essay AND RESEARCH YOUR PAPER)

 

REQUIRED TEXTS – all assignments are available on line or in pdf format

 

SYLLABUS

 

HONORS REQUIREMENTS

 

Primary Source Texts available on lie:

·      Annalistic Sources at Attalus.org

·       Livy, War with Hannibal

·      Sallust, War with Cataline

·       Plutarch’s Life of Caesar

·      Plutarch’s Lives of Others

·      Suetonius Life of Divius Iulius

·      Nepos Life of Atticus

·      Catullus Poems

·      Caesar’s Gallic Wars

·      Caesar’s Civil Wars

·      Cicero Select Letters

·      Suetonius, Divus Augustus

·      Diodorus of Sicily

·      Appian, Roman History

·      Stockton, From the Gracchi to Sulla: Sources for Roman History 133-80 BC

 

Suggestions for paper topics

        

Requirements for Bibliographies 

 

PAPER TOPICS POSTED HERE 2019

 

Paper Assignments:

 

Current paper topics

 

Format of Paper

 

Citing Primary Sources

 

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Roman Historians (Biographical sketches: Appian, Cassius Dio, Plutarch)

 

Late Republican Historical Sources List

 

Republican Bibliography at Purdue

 

Epigraphical Literature at Purdue

 

Women’s Bibliography at Purdue

 

Roman Army Bibliography

 

Class Notes:

 

Archaic Rome

 

Notes on Royal Rome

 

Struggle of the Orders

 

The Roman Constitution

 

Table of Roman Magistrates

 

The Aristocratic Ethos

 

Notes on the Aristocratic Ethos

 

Reasons for Military Success

 

First Punic War Notes

 

Hannibalic War Materials:

 

Hannibalic War Notes

 

Phases of the Hannibalic War

 

Hannibalic War Battle Maps

 

Notes on Fabius and Scipio

 

Notes on the Wars in the Greek East (200-146 BC)

 

Late Roman Republic:

 

Social Changes of the Late 2nd Century BC.

                        

The Fall of the Republic in Outline

 

Notes on the Gracchi (133-121 BC)

 

Rise of Marius Notes

 

Marius and Sulla, the Road to Civil War

                    

Sulla, Caesar, and the Dictatorship

 

Notes on Julius Caesar

 

Caesar’s “Monster” CV

 

Notes on the Catilinarian Conspiracy

 

Notes for Caesar’s Consulship

 

Notes for the 50s BC

 

Roman Army Bibliography

 

Notes on Caesar’s Gallic Wars

 

Notes on the Civil War

 

Notes on Caesar’s Dictatorship

 

Notes on the Augustan Settlement

 

Public Lectures: