CLCS 381, JULIUS CAESAR, STATESMAN, SOLDIER, CITIZEN

SPRING 2013

TTh 10:30-11:45 AM; PHYS 223

 

Prof. Nicholas K. Rauh

Office: Stanley Coulter Rm. 211

Phone: 496-6079

Email: rauhn@purdue.edu

Office Hours:  Tues.-Thurs 12:00-1:00 PM; Tues 3:00-4:30 PM

 

These are useful links until such time as the assignments below have been established.

 

·                     Plutarch’s Life of Caesar

·                   Plutarch’s Lives of Others

·                   Suetonius Life of Divius Iulius

·         Sallust, War with Cataline

·                     Nepos Life of Atticus

·                   Catullus Poems

·                   Caesar’s Gallic Wars

·                   Caesar’s Civil Wars

·                   Cicero Select Letters

 

All of these and other sources are available in translation at the Attalus On Line Library for Roman History

 

Other useful links from past coursework:

Sources for the Late Republic; Thumbnail Sketches of Ancient Historians; Useful Bibliography for the Late Republic; Ancient Women Bibliography; Roman Army Bibliography; Greek Map Set (download file); Roman Maps and Handouts (download)

 

 

 PRELIMINARY LECTURE AND READING SCHEDULE:

              

Assignments

Jan. 8-10: Introduction to the Roman Republic; RELIGION, SOCIETY, TOPOGRAPHY, ESSENTIAL SOURCES

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

CLCS 181 WEBSITE, Archaic Rome; Johnston, The Private Life of the Romans (Chapters 1&2); Useful Bibliography for the Roman Republic

 

ON RESERVE (Optional):

Sir William Smith's Smaller History of Rome., 1-191 (RECOMMENDED for those without previous background in Roman or Ancient History); H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero 1-41.

 

Jan. 15-17:  AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE HELLENISTIC EAST, THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, AND THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION TO 100 BC.

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

L.R. Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar, 1-97; CLCS 181 WEBSITE, The Roman Constitution, Table of Roman Magistrates; The Roman Aristocratic Ethos; Polybius, Roman Constitution (Book 6), Roman Imperialism, Hellenistic World Lecture; Status in the Roman Republic; Social Changes of the Late 2nd Century BC.

       

OPTIONAL Readings for purposes of review (ALL ON RESERVE):

F.F. Abbott, Roman Political Institutions, 150-265.

Stockton, Gracchi to Sulla, Sourcepack, 1-58.

 

THURSDAY, JAN 24 IN-CLASS QUIZ 1

 

Jan. 22-24: The Fall of the Republic, the Gracchi, MARIUS AND THE JULII--THE RISE OF A ROMAN DYNASTY?

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Fall of Republic Lecture; Notes on the Gracchi (133-121 BC); Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Marius; Class Notes on C. Marius; Marius and Sulla, the Road to Civil War; Notes on the Civil War

 

Jan. 29-Feb. 7:  Caesar’s youth; SULLA AND THE FIRST CIVIL WAR; CAESAR’S BRUSH WITH THE LAW: SULLA’S DICTATORSHIP (81-79 BC)

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Notes for Sulla’s Dictatorship; Sulla, Caesar, and the Dictatorship;

Plutarch, Marius, finish; Plutarch, Sulla, 1-30; Plutarch, Pompey, ch.1-12; Plutarch, Crassus, ch.1-5; Plutarch, Cicero, ch.1-4.

 

On Reserve (OPTIONAL):

Stockton, Gracchi to Sulla, Sourcepack, 58-186.

 

Feb. 12-14: EMERGING DYNASTS--POMPEY, CRASSUS, AND CAESAR; THE ENEMIES OF ROME IN THE 70S BC:  SERTORIUS, MITHRADATES, SPARTACUS AND THE CILICIAN PIRATES

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Gelzer, Caesar, 1-34; Taylor, Party Politics, 98-118.

Plut. Sulla, finish; Pomp. 1-41, Crassus 6-12, Caesar 1-6, Cicero 1-5; Suet. Divus Julius (life of Caesar) 1-8, 45-50; Class Notes for the 70’s BC

 

On Reserve (OPTIONAL):

Stockton, Gracchi to Sulla, Sourcepack, 187-210.

Rauh, "Who Were the Cilician Pirates?"

Plutarch, Lives of Sertorius and Lucullus.

 

QUIZ II IN CLASS, THURSDAY FEB. 21

 

Feb. 19-28: Caesar and The Catilinarian Conspiracy, Who Was Involved?

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Gelzer, Caesar, 35-60; Class Notes for the 60s; Notes on the Conspiracy

 

Attalus OnLine texts

Sallust, The Conspiracy of Cataline, entire.

Plutarch, Cicero, 9-23; Crassus, 13; Pomp. 42-46; Caes. 7-12.

Cicero, The Catalinarian Orations, entire. (ON RESERVE)

 

On Reserve (OPTIONAL):

Dio's Roman History, Loeb vol. 3, pp.3-167.

Velleius Paterculus, Loeb pp. 123-145.

Liv. Frag. 101-102.

Orosius, pp. 240-241.

App. Civil War  II.1-7  (Loeb vol. 3, pp. 231-243).

Diod. Sic. Loeb vol. 12, pp. 273-295

Plutarch, Life of Cato the Younger.

 

(available on reserve for take home midterm ESSAY): C.M. Odahl, The Catilinarian Conspiracy (On Reserve); L. Hutchinson, The Conspiracy of Catiline (On Reserve); E.G. Hardy, The Catilinarian Conspiracy (1924).

 

MAR. 5-7: CAESAR AND THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE (59-55 BC)

READING ASSIGNMENTS: Gelzer, Caesar, 61-101; Plut. Pomp. 47-52, Crass.14-16, Caes. 11-14, Cic. 24-33; Suet. Iul. 24; Cic. Select Letters

, #6-16; Notes for Caesar’s Consulship

 

On Reserve (Optional): Sabben-Clare, Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC, 1-32, 69-91.

 

MID-TERM TAKE HOME PAPERS DUE FRIDAY MARCH 8 5PM, UNDER RAUH’S OFFICE DOOR (STANLEY COULTER RM 211)

 

MAR. 19-21: CAESAR'S GALLIC CONQUEST; the Roman Army

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS: Notes for the 50s BC; Roman Army Bibliography; Gelzer, Caesar,102-168; Caes. Gallic War (entire); Plut. Caes. 15-28; Suet. Iul. 25;

 

On Reserve (OPTIONAL):

Sabben-Clare, Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC, 33-68, 100-111; C. Rice Holmes, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul.

 

March 26-28: ZEITGEIST OF THE 50'S -- CATULLUS, LESBIA / CLODIA, CLODIUS, CICERO

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Plut. Caes. Crass. finish; Pomp. 53-57, Cic. 34-36; Catullus  Poems 2, 5, 7, 51, 58, 8 11, 79, 75, 37, 85, 29, 57, 49, 56; Suet. Jul. 26-28, 51-58, 73 Cic. Select Letters17-38; Nepos, Life of Atticus; Plutarch,Caesar 29-48; Plutarch, Cicero, 37-39; Suet. Jul. 29-35, 75; Cic. Select Letters, 41-63; Notes on the Bona Dea Scandal; Ancient Women Bibliography;

 

On Reserve (OPTIONAL):

Sabben-Clare, Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC, 151-191.

 

QUIZ 3 TUESDAY APRIL 2

 

Apr 2-4: THE CIVIL WAR, PART ONE, DEFEAT OF THE POMPEIANS (49-47 BC)

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS: Notes on the Civil War; Gelzer, Caesar, 246-271; Plutarch, Caesar, 48-59; Plutarch, Cicero, 41; Suet. Jul. 26-44, 59-75; Cic. Select Letters 64-107; Caesar, Civil Wars

 

ON RESERVE (OPTIONAL)

Syme, Roman Revolution, 47-77. Taylor, Party Politics, 140-161.

 

Apr 9-11: THE CIVIL WAR, PART TWO, CAESAR’S INTENTIONS (46-44 BC)

 

April 16-18, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING -- CAESAR'S DICTATORSHIP (DISCUSSION)

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS: Notes on Caesar’s Dictatorship; Gelzer, Caesar, 272-end; Plut. Caes. finish, Plut. Cic. 42; Suet. Jul. 76-end; Cic. Select Letters 108-114; Plut. Life of Brutus (for assassination)

 

Final Exam TBA