STUDENT

EVENT (these entries can also substitute as paper topics)

 

TI. GRACCHUS LEGISLATIVE AND ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN 133BC

Andrew Schade

MARIUS AND SATURNINUS, URBAN VIOLENCE, 103-100 BC

Katie Materson

FINANCIAL CRASH, 89 BC; Plautus’ descriptions of the tabernae

 

Flight of SULLA FROM FORUM 88 BC, Opposition of Marius and Sulpicius Rufus

Vowell

PROSCRIPTIONS AND THE ROSTRA; Sulla in 88, Octavius, Antonius in 43

Matt Lauber

CATALINARIAN CONSPIRACY, CICERO’S SPEECHES, SALLUST

 

GLADIATORIAL GAMES IN THE FORUM (Caesar’s games in 63)

 

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES OF CAESAR’S CONSULSHIP 59 BC; BIBULUS' OPPOSITION TO CAESAR, 59 BC

 

58 BC. TRIBUNESHIP OF P. CLODIUS; MOB RIOTS BETWEEN CLODIUS AND MILO IN THE 50S;

Emily Ponder

VESTAL VIRGINS AND THE BONA DEA SCANDAL, 114, 67, 62-61 BC

Patrick Spork

DEATH OF CLODIUS AND BURNING OF SENATE HOUSE; TRIAL OF MILO

Kellan

CAESAR’S TRIUMPHS IN 46 BC

Scott O’Brian

CAESAR’S DICTATORSHIP IN 45-44 BC

 

CAESAR’S ASSASSINATION AND CREMATION

Erin Kischuk

Augury – explain the flight of the birds

Yitian Hu

Water and sewer maintenance of the forum

Ellen Rohlfing

Describe the Religious rituals at any one of the temples in the Forum

 

Describe the process of Voting in the Centuriate Assembly at Rome

 

Discuss currency production at the Roman Mint

 

Trials – Explain court procedure in the age of Cicero

Jenny Reach

Roman Architecture – explain construction and design of marble floors or vaulted ceilings in the Forum

 

Dedicatory Statues – explain the procedures for obtaining permission to erect statues in the forum

 

The Marble Plan – discuss what survives from Rome’s marble plan and what it indicates about urban maintenance