Classics 483 PAPER TOPIC SUGGESTIONS:

THE ONLY GOOD TRIBUNE IS A DEAD TRIBUNE:

Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, tr.pl. 133

C. Sempronius gracchus, tr. pl. 123, 121

L. Appuleius Saturninus, 103, 100

M. Livius Drusus, tr.pl. 91

P. Sulpicius Rufus, tr.pl. 88

P. Clodius, tr.pl. 58

STOP ME BEFORE I HURT MYSELF (assassins)

P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Pontifex Maximus, 133

L. Opimius, cos. 121 B.C.

L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, COS. 54

M. Iunius Brutus and C. Cassius Longinus (assassins of caesar)

Dec. Iunius Brutus Albinus (Assassin of Caesar)

the end of Cato the Younger (from Pharsalus to Utica)

the last year of Cicero's career (from Caesar's ass. to death)

I'M TOO SEXY FOR THIS WAR (1), TOO SEXY FOR THIS SENATE (2), TOO SEXY FOR THE REPUBLIC (3)

1. extraordinary military commands:

C. Marius vs. Jugurtha and the Germans

L. Cornelius Sulla vs. Mithradates

Cn. Pompeius Magnus vs. Sertorius/the Pirates/or Mithradates

L. Licinius Lucullus vs. Mithradates

C. Julius Caesar vs. the Gauls

P. Licinius Crassus vs. the Parthians

2. political intrigue:

Marius' arrangement with Saturninus in 104-100

Cn. Pompeius Strabo cos. 89

Crassus' intrigue in the 60's B.C. (with Cataline, Clodius, Caesar)

the role of Caesar/or Pompey in the First Triumvirate

Pompey and Crassus' suborning of P. Clodius in the 50's

Caesar's political intrigue from Gaul in the 50's

3. Dictatorships

the dictatorship of Sulla, 81-79 b.c.

the dictatorship of Caesar, 46-44 B.C.

the Second Triumvirate (Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus)

M. Antony's intentions for the eastern provinces

I'M BAD, I'M BAD, YOU KNOW IT (the proscriptions)

the reign of terror of C. Marius (87)

the proscriptions of Sulla

the proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate

BORN TO BE WILD:

King Jugurtha of Numidia

King Mithradates of Pontus

Vercingetorix (gaul)

Viriathus (spain)

The Cilician Pirates

Spartacus

REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE:

Q. Sertorius

C. Flavius Fimbria

M. Aemilius Lepidus, cos. 78

L. Sergius Catalina

P. Clodius

C. Scribonius Curio the Younger

HAMMERTIME:

the battle of Alesia

the battle of the Colline Gates

the battle of Pharsalus

the battle of Philippi

the battle of Actium

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

The wealth of P. Crassus and its political uses

the extortions of Q. Verres in Sicily (73-71)

Profiteering from the proscriptions, the wife and freedmen of Sulla

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL IS A FRIEND OF MINE

T. Pomponius Atticus,

T. Annius Milo

P. Caelius Rufus

Ap. Claudius Pulcher

YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME

The sexlife of Julius Caesar, of Pompey, of P. Clodius, of his sister Clodia/Lesbia, of M. Antony, or Antony and Cleopatra, the relationship of Cicero with his wife Terentia

ROMAN WOMEN: COURTESANS OF FAMOUS POLITICIANS, SENATORIAL MATRONS, (Cornelia, Servilia, Julia, Terentia); VESTAL VIRGINS;

GENDER RELATIONS (marriage, dating, relations between fathers and daughters or sons, adoption, divorce, inheritance)

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: the Roman basilica, bath, roads, Aqueducts, Villas,

MATERIAL CULTURE: domestic architecture, household sanitation and hygiene, pottery, dress and fashion.

SOCIAL LIFE: urban living conditions; Roman freedmen; slavery

ROMAN ARMY: Marian military reforms. cohortal legion, mercenaries, mutinies, camp conditions, weaponry.

RELIGION: cult, ritual, material remains thereof; myth, deities and their traditions, state or private practices, literary traditions thereof.

ANCIENT MEDICINE, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY

ROUGH CILICIA SURVEY PROJECT DATA ASSEMBLY (see professor)