CLCS 381: JULIUS CAESAR: STATESMAN, SOLDIER, CITIZEN

CLCS 381: JULIUS CAESAR: STATESMAN, SOLDIER, CITIZEN.

PHYS 223

10:30-11:45 AM

NOTE TO CLASS (2-2013): THE LECTURE SCHEDULE BELOW IS UNREVISED, AND MANY OF THE LINKS ARE BROKEN. PLEASE REFER TO THE POSTED READING SCHEDULE FOR WEEK TO WEEK ASSIGNMENTS

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.

Teaching Assistant:

Lynn Parrish

Office: Stanley Coulter Rm. G080

Email: lparrish@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Wed, 1:30-2:45 or by apt.

The PURPOSE of this course is to examine 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 (102 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 of Republican Rome.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Reading assignments (200 pp./week), 3 in-class quizzes; One Take-Home Midterm Exam, Final Exam, Attendance and Class Participation.

{NOTE: Course Requirements for Hist. 381H Honors Students are described on separate sheet.}

Required Readings in the Gelzer, Taylor, and essential primary sources. Assigned secondary readings are available at book stores. Some introductory literature is available at the CLCS 181 course website and is linked below (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn)

L.R. Taylor	Party Politics in the Age of Caesar	UC Berkeley
M. Gelzer	Caesar: Politician and Statesman	Harvard U
Plutarch	Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic	Penguin
Cicero	Cicero, Selected Political Speeches	penguin

On Line Resources:

Greek and Roman history 322 - 44 B.C.

This site contains detailed lists of events and sources for the history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman republic. It includes links to online translations of many of the sources, as well as new translations of some works which have not previously been easily available in English. http://www.attalus.org/

The Private Life of the Romans by Harold Whetstone Johnston, http://www.forumromanum.org/life/johnston.html

Forum Romanum Digital Library of Latin Texts (including translations), http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/table.html

Catullus Poems; http://www.vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/list.html

Caes. Gallic War (entire); http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.html

Caes. Civil Wars; http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/civil.html

Cicero, Speeches against Cataline, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Aphi%2C0474%2C013&query=init.

Cicero, Pro Caelio, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Aphi%2C0474%2C024&query=init.

Cic. Select Letters. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-letters.html

(a large selection of letters, no ancient notation) http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/DeptTransls/CicLetters.html#ides

(selection of letters beginning with Caesar’s Civil War) http://www.bartleby.com/9/3/ (a selection of 30 letters, good translation)

Nikelaos of Damascus, Life of Augustus, http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/nicolaus.html

Plutarch’s Lives (all of the assigned lives are posted here, the life of Caesar is unfortunately truncated), http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plutarch.html

Plutarch's Life of Caesar, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0078:text=Caes.

Polybius, Roman Constitution (Book 6), http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius6.html

Sallust, Catalinarian Conspiracy, http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/sallust/catilinae.html#24

Suetonius, Divus Julius, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.html

Some OPTIONAL literature will be placed on reserve (Undergraduate Library, Hist. 381 Reserve List). A complete reserve list is being prepared for the class. The optional reserve readings are primarily found in the sourcebooks, Stockton, From Gracchi to Sulla, and Sabben-Clare, Caesar and Roman Politics, and marked in bold print (see below). At two critical points in the semester--the Catalinarian Conspiracy discussion and the Assassination of Caesar discussion--additional sources will be important and specified as such.

GRADING will be based on 3 quizzes (15% each); a Take Home Midterm Paper (30%); a Final Exam (25%). Quizzes and exam will include Map and Multiple Choice Sections. FINAL Exam (25%) will be comprehensive and comprise a combination of map test, multiple-choice section, and one long essay. Make-up quizzes and exam are possible under extraordinary circumstances, but they are also more difficult than the originals.

MIDTERM TAKE-HOME EXAM, 30%: Midterms due FRIDAY, MARCH 8. A 5-page take-home research exercise, topics to be assigned. LATE PAPERS WILL BE PENALIZED ONE LETTER GRADE FOR EVERY WEEK THEY ARE LATE.

SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS: Quiz 1, JAN. 24; Quiz 2, FEB. 21; Midterm Paper, March 8; Quiz 3, April 2; Final Exam TBA;

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES: EXTRA CREDIT CLASS PRESENTATIONS WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY THE PROFESSOR. ALL STUDENTS ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE FOR EXTRA CREDIT IN THE SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE OF JULIUS CAESAR TO OCCUR AT PURDUE’S ENVISIONING CENTER, AT THE 3-D MODEL OF THE ROMAN FORUM. DETAILS TBA.

OTHER EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

Ø Indiana Classical Conference annual meeting at Purdue University, Fri-Sat. April 19-20, TBA

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 Roman Republic; 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 2^nd 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; Rise of C. 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 .