York
Programme in Classical Studies
History
3131
Paul Swarney
244
416 736 5123 pswarney@yorku.ca
Fall Term 2003
Required
Texts:
1. Naphtali Lewis and
Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume I,
2. Naphtali
Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume II,
3. Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by G.A. Williamson
(and revised by Mary
Smallwood,) Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044420-3
4. Apuleius,
The Golden Ass, translated by P. G. Walsh, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-28242-9
5. Tacitus,
Complete Works of Tacitus, translated by
Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Modern Library College
Edition (McGraw-Hill), ISBN:0-07-553639-0
6. Caesar, The Gallic War, translated Carolyn Hammond, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-28358282-3
7. Suetonius,
The Twelve Casars, translated by Robert Graves, Penguin,
ISBN 0-14-044072-0
8. Pliny, The
Letters of the Younger Pliny, translated by Betty Radice, Penguin
ISBN
0-14-044127-1
9. Livy,
The War with
ISBN 0-14-044145-X
10. Juvenal, The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-28762-0
11. Recommended:
David Shotter,
(Best buy =
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0582328160 /qid= 1060696854/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9916519-2344960?v=glance&s=books
ESSAYS:
FALL TERM 2003
Several essays and
assignments will be set during the Fall Term. Performance in essays and
assignments will constitute 50% of the term’s evaluation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ESSAYS AND ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE IN
CLASS ON THE ASSIGNED DATE. ANY ESSAY HANDED IN AFTER THE DUE DATE WILL HAVE ONE GRADE SUBTRACTED FROM ITS EVALUATION FOR
EACH CLASS BY WHICH IT IS OVERDUE; e.g AN “A” ESSAY HANDED IN ONE CLASS LATE
WILL BE GRADED “B” ETC.
TESTS: FALL TERM
2003
Two tests on the assigned material and the
topics covered in class and discussion will be set at the start of class on
Thursday 23 October in Vari Hall 3006 and in the December
examination period. Performance in examination will constitute 50% of the term
evaluation.
PARTICIPATION
From -3 to +3 points.
FORMAT
The class will meet
twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday from
The potential
litigiousness of a small minority of the undergraduate population and the
precise facts about student attendance demanded by Faculties at
Participation in
the course will add between ‑3 points to +3 points to the term
evaluation. It should be noted that students who habitually absent themselves
from lectures, discussions and presentations generally find it impossible to
participate in sessions which they do not attend!
ACADEMIC
STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS
The rules and regulations concerning plagiarism and
other forms of academic dishonesty
governing the course are those of the University and Faculty of Arts. Students
will be expected to have acquainted themselves with these regulations and will
be reminded of disciplinary procedures and penalties should occasion for such procedures present themselves. Please review relevant pages in the Undergraduate
Calendar available at:http://calendars. registrar.
yorku.ca/calendars/2002-2003/ ug/ pol/ ah.htm
Rule
# 24
You may no longer eat or drink in
class. You must either have breakfast
before the lecture or starve. This is a
matter of courtesy to your fellow students and a matter of necessity for the
professor.
LECTURES
AND ASSIGNMENTS: FALL TERM 2003
September 9 The
Middle: XVII PR. KAL. OCTOBRES,
SEX.POMPEIO, SEX. APPULEIO COS.
11 res gestae divi Augusti
16 res gestae divi Augusti : Road Map of imperium
Romanum
First Assignment Due 08:30
18 How to Write about
War during pax (sic) Romana
23 Judaic History
25 Terrorism in the
Ancient
BJ III
Second Assignment due 08:30
30 How to Make War
like a Roman
BJ IV-V
October 2 The War on Terrorism
BJ VI-VII
Temple
Model Temple Model 2 Jerusalem
Third Assignment due 08:30
7 vita domestica rusticaque
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1-2
Lewis and Reinhold Roman
Civilization I, pp. 472-514
9 vita domestica rusticaque II
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3-7
Lewis and Reinhold Roman
Civilization I, pp. 514-554
14 pax bellaque
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8-11
Tacitus Agricola
16 dramatis personae I: Caesar (Dictator)
Caesar comentarii de
Lewis and Reinhold Roman
Civilization I, pp. 295-317
21
Sources Literary and Documentary
Caesar BG VII
Lewis and Reinhold
I-49
23 First Test
28 Peter Garnsey and Richard
Saller, The
dramatis personae II: Caesar Augustus
Lewis and Reinhold Roman
Civilization I, pp. 318-329; 555-596
30
T. Donald McGuire,
Acts of Silence: Civil War, Tyranny, and Suicide in the
Flavian Epics. Germany: Georg Olms
Verlag, Hildesheim, 1997.
res
gestae divi Augusti
Lewis and Reinhold Roman
Civilization I, pp. 596-640
November 4 Adrian Keith Goldsworthy, The Roman Army at War: 100 B.C. to AD 200. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
[Re]writing Roman
History 1 from the Age of Augustus
Selections from
Livy in Lewis and Reinhold Roman Civilization I, pp.
51-158
6
Nigel Pollard, Soldiers, Cities and Civilians in Roman
Syria. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Livy, Augustus, Tiberius and the War
with
Livy 21-26
11 Keith Hopkins. A
World Full of Gods: Pagans Jews and Christians in the Roman
Empire. London: Orion Publishing Co., 1999
Mary Boatwright, Hadrian and
the Cities of the Roman Empire. Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 2000.
dramatis personae III: Tiberius Caesar
R. Sandra Joshel, Work, Identity, and Legal Status at
[Re]writing Roman
History 2
Suetonius Tiberius
Tacitus annales 1
18 dramatis personae IV: C. Caesar
Tacitus annales 2-3
Report
20 Caesar and the domus
annales 4-6
James B.
Rives, Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage
from Augustus to Constantine, Oxford 1995
Tacitus annals 11, 23
CIL 5, 5050; 13, 1.668 (Lewis and Reinhold II pp.52-53;
54-55
Report
December 8 Second Examination
Final
Report due