JULIUS CAESAR: STATESMAN - SOLDIER - CITIZEN

THE NAKED TRUTH

CLCS 381 Spring Semester 2011

TTh 9:00-10:15 AM; EE 270

PROFESSOR N. RAUH; DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE; SC 211; 496-6079; rauhn@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Tues.-Thurs 10:30-12:00 PM; Tues 3:00-4:30 PM.

EC PERFORMANCE OF JULIUS CAESAR

FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET (CLICK HERE)

Final Exam is Thursday, May 5, 7-9:00 PM

Smith Hall Rm 108

REWRITE THE MIDTERM TAKE HOME PAPER (due MONDAY MAY 2)

CAESAR’S POLITICAL CAREER

FOR COURSE SYLLABUS, CLICK HERE

FOR READING SCHEDULE, CLICK HERE

HONORS REQUIREMENTS

A saga of political intrigue, civil war, and world domination. This course examines the career of Julius Caesar amid the military conflicts and political collapse of the late Roman Republic (133-27 BC). The course will focus on events from the period of Caesar's birth (100 BC) through his assassination in 44 BC and attempt to place Caesar's complex personality within the context of political, military, economic, social, and cultural developments at the end of the Roman Republic. Reading assignments: approximately 100 pages per week from assigned text and ancient sources in translation.

Assigned texts (available at Von’s Bookstore and Amazon.com)

party politics in the age of caesar	latest	l.r. taylor	UC Berkeley	520012577
Caesar: Politician and Statesman	latest	M. Gelzer	Harvard U	674090012
Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic	latest	Plutarch	Penguin	140440844
Caesar, The Civil War	latest	Caesar	Penguin	140441875
Cicero, Selected Political Speeches	latest	Cicero	penguin	140442146