CLCS 383: CULTURE AND SOCIETY OF
IMPERIAL ROME
SPRING 2024
CLCS
383 ARM 1103, 10:30AM
CLCS
383 SC 239, 1:30 PM
PRELIMINARY SYLLABUS JAN. 2024
Roman Empire, web links
Assigned Readings:
William
C. Morey, Outlines of Roman History
Sir
William Smith, Smaller History of Rome
(https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b196000&seq=23)
Rauh, CLCS 181 Website: Classical World Civilizations
(http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/Hist_416/hist420/HIST420_INDEX.htm)
Packback Assignments (you
must purchase Packback access; see below)
History
102 On-line Lectures and Notes: Archaic Rome,
The
Roman Constitution, The Roman
Aristocratic Ethos, Roman
Imperialism The Fall of the
Roman Republic, Dictators and Emperors, The Pax Romana, Late Philosophical Developments, Augustan "Flow Chart"; Augustan Settlement Notes; Tiberius Notes, Caligula Notes, Claudius Notes, Nero
Notes, Women’s Notes, Civic Life Notes, Notes
to Religion lecture; Religion
table, Fall
of Roman Empire Notes; Diocletian;
Germanic
Invasions; Rise
of Christianity
On Line Resources: Perseus
Classical Library, including Tacitus, The Annals
(https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html)
Tacitus,
The Histories
(https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html)
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
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
Suetonius, Divus Julius, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.html
Other on-line resources of use:
Attalus.org (an annalistic compendium of source
references through 27 BC; it contains hundreds of links to ancient texts in
translation)
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
Suetonius,
Divus Julius, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.html
R.
Syme The
Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939)
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
Nikelaos
of Damascus, Life of Augustus, http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/nicolaus.html
Odds
and Ends:
Complete List of the Roman Emperors
Powerpoint for the Julio-Claudians
and Antonines
Thumbnail Sketches of Roman Historians
COURSE
SCHEDULE
PART ONE --
FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPATE
JAN. 9-
11: Introduction; Review of the Roman Republic. Review Morley
chapters 1-26; Smith, chapters 26-37;
History 102 On-line Lectures: Archaic Rome, The Roman
Constitution, The
Roman Aristocratic Ethos, Smith, 116-124
JAN. 16-18: History
102 On-line Lectures: Roman Imperialism;
Smith, 68-112
JAN. 23 - 25: History
102 On-line Lectures: The Fall of the
Roman Republic, Dictators and
Emperors; Suetonius, Life of
Julius Caesar; Smith, 148-250
JAN. 30 - FEB. 1: The
Augustan Settlement. Morley chapters 23-24; Smith, 252-284;
Suetonius, life of Augustus; Suetonius, Life
of Augustus; Augustan
"Flow Chart"; Augustan
Settlement Notes; Syme, Roman Revolution, 97-123, 187-201, 276-331,
389-419; Julio-Claudian Dynasty (chart)
QUIZ 1, THURSDAY FEB.1
FEB. 6 – 15: The
Reign of Tiberius. Suet. Life
of Tiberius; RECOMMENDED: Tacitus, Annals 1-15
(Death of Augustus). Morley, The Julians (on
line textbook); Imperial Administration;
Tiberius notes.
Feb. 20-22: Reign
of Caligula. Suet. Life
of Gaius, Morley, Chapter 24; Caligula
Notes
FEB. 27-29: Reigns
of Claudius and Nero. Suet. Lives
of Claudius & Nero; The Julians;
Morley, chapter 24, Tac. Ann. Books 9-16; Claudius Notes; Nero Notes;
Year of 4 Emperors Notes
MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS
TUESDAY MARCH 5
MAR 7: The Year of
Four Emperors and the Flavian Emperors. Read Suet. Lives
of Vespasian, Titus, Domitian and one of the following: Galba, Otho,
or Vitellius; Morley,
chapter 25; Tacitus, Histories, Books II-III; ; Flavian Dynasty Notes
NO CLASSES THURSDAY MAR. 12-14 (spring
break)
PART TWO --
SOCIETY AND CULTURE UNDER THE ANTONINES
MAR.
19-21: RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE; THE
ANTONINES PART I, Morey,
Outlines, chapter 26; Antonine Notes;
Read Polytheistic
World Views; Early
Developments in Greek Rational Thought; Philosophical
Developments, Part Two; the
Gospel of John; Juvenal, Satire 13;
Religion Notes
MAR
26-28: SEXUALITY AND GENDER RELATIONS;
Petronius, the Satyricon;
Juvenal, Satires,
2, 6, 11; Notes on Status of Women;
Additional Aid, Greek Gender and Sexuality
APRIL 2-4: LIVING CONDITIONS
IN ROME AND THE EMPIRE; LAW AND ECONOMY; CULTURAL
HOMOGENEITY; THE ANTONINES II. I, Morley,
chapter 26; Antonine
Notes;
Civic Life; Petronius, the
Banquet of Trimalchio; The Private Life of the Romans by Harold
Whetstone Johnston,
http://www.forumromanum.org/life/johnston.html; Juvenal, Satires 3,
5, 8, 12, 15;
QUIZ
2, THURSDAY APRIL 4
PART THREE -- THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE
APRIL 9-11: THE
THIRD CENTURY CRISIS, IMPERIAL REORGANIZATION; DIOCLETIAN and CONSTANTINE. Morey,
Outlines, chapter 27-28; Smith, 316-343; On Line aids, Fall of
Roman Empire Notes; Diocletian.
APRIL 16-18, THE RISE OF THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH; GERMANIC INVASIONS AND KINGDOMS, JUSTINIAN'S
RECONQUEST. Morley,
chapters 28-29; Smith, 316-343; online aid, Rise
of Christianity, Germanic
Invasions;
APRIL 23-25, NO CLASS,
prepare for online final.
FINAL EXAM WILL BE TAKE
HOME, DUE WED. MAY 1, 11:59 PM.