WEEK 1 (September 2, 4)

TUESDAY: Introduction

THURSDAY: Source Materials (discussion list)
Griffon, "Introduction," RW 1-7; Huskinson, "Introduction," ER 1-2; Using Historical Sources

WEEK 2 (September 9, 11)

TUESDAY: Origins of Rome and the Conquest of Italy (discussion list)
Crawford, "Early Rome and Italy," RW 9-38

THURSDAY: Foundation Myths (discussion list)
Livy Book 1

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

WEEK 3: (September 16, 18)

TUESDAY: Government, Laws, and Aristocracy (discussion list)
Polybius 6.11-18; The Twelve Tables; Elogia from the Tomb of the Scipios

THURSDAY:Conquest of Mediterranean (discussion list)
Rawson, "The Expansion of Rome," RW 39-59; Polybius 38.3-11

CHRONOLOGY QUIZ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

WEEK 4: (September 23, 25)

TUESDAY: Economic and Political results of conquest (discussion list)
Start reading Lives of the Gracchi

THURSDAY: Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (discussion list)
Plutarch, Lives of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

PAPER ASSIGNED THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 (assignment)

WEEK 5: (September 30, October 2)

TUESDAY: Cosa and Rome (discussion list)
Start reading Life of Pompey.

THURSDAY: The Civil Wars (discussion list)
Griffin, "Cicero and Rome," RW 76-100; Stockton, "The Founding of Empire," RW 121-124; Plutarch, Life of Pompey.

WEEK 6 (October 7, 9)

TUESDAY: The Augustan reformation (discussion list)
Stockton, "The Founding of Empire," RW 124-139; Res Gestae; Tacitus, Annales 1.1; Horace, Secular Hymn

THURSDAY: The Roman Family (discussion list)
Veyne 9-50; Montserrat, "Reading Gender in the Roman World," ER 153-182

PAPER DUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

WEEK 7: (October 14, 16)

TUESDAY: Roman Religion (discussion list)
Rives, "Religion in the Roman world," ER 245-276; Pliny, Epistles book 10.25ff

THURSDAY:MIDTERM EXAM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

FALL BREAK: October 17-26

WEEK 8: (October 28, 30)

TUESDAY: PROJECTS ASSIGNED TUESDAY OCTOBER 28

THURSDAY: Emperor, empire, and subjects (discussion list)
Stockton, "The founding of the Empire," RW 139-148; Purcell, "The arts of government", RW 150-181

WEEK 9: (November 4, 6)

TUESDAY: Imperial Historians and Biographers(discussion list)
Tacitus, Annales, books 11-12; Suetonius, Life of Claudius

THURSDAY: Slaves and freed (discussion list)
Veyne 51-94; Hope, "Status and identity in the Roman world," ER 125-152

WEEK 10 (November 11, 13)

TUESDAY: PROJECT GROUP MEETINGS IN CLASS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

THURSDAY: Pompeii (discussion list)
Ling, "The arts of living," RW 308-337; Nevett and Perkins, "Urbanism and urbanization in the Roman world," ER 95-124

WEEK 11 (November 18, 20)

TUESDAY: The army and the frontiers (discussion list)
Purcell, "The Army," RW 161-166; Josephus, The Jewish War III.5-6; Josephus, The Jewish War VII.3-6

THURSDAY: Spectacles and entertainments (discussion list)
Veyne 117-138; Seneca, Epistles 7

GROUP MEETING 2 SCHEDULED WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17

WEEK 12 (November 25)

TUESDAY: Meet in Museum (discussion list)

THANKSGIVING BREAK

WEEK 13 (December 2, 4)

TUESDAY:The military empire (discussion list)
Herodian on the accession of Didius Julianus; Petition to the Emperor Philip the Arab

THURSDAY: Crises, Responses, transformations (discussion list)
Chadwick, "Envoi," RW 401-422; Bartlett, "How excessive government killed ancient Rome," The Cato Journal 14 1994

GROUP MEETING 3 SCHEDULED WEEK OF DECEMBER 1

WEEK 14 (December 9)

TUESDAY: PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9