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York University

Programme in Classical Studies

2008-2009

Humanities 4102

Caligula-Claudius-Nero

“ars imperii II”

Paul Swarney 

Classical Studies

121 Winters College

York University

Toronto 

pswarney@yorku.ca

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HEALTH, NURSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 104

Important Academic Dates 2008-2009

Fall Term 2008 - Revised

Required Texts: 

Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander

Translated by John Yardley, Penguin 0140444122

Falvius Josephus: The Jewish War, translated by G. A. Williamson, E. Mary Smallwood, Betty Radice, Revised Edition, Penguin Classic 9780140444209

Longinus: On Great Writing (On The Sublime), translated,

with an introduction by G. M. A. Grube, Hackett Publishing

Lucan: Civil War, translated by Susan H. Braund

Oxford World's Classics 0192839497

Persius:

The Satires of Horace and Persius,  translated byNiall Rudd,

Penguin Classic 9780140455083

Petronius: The Satyricon;

Seneca: The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius
translated by J. P. Sullivan, Penguin Classic 9780140444896

Seneca:

Dialogues and Letters, translated by C. D. N. Costa
 Penguin Classic  9780140446791

Letters from a Stoic
EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM, translated by Robin Campbell
 Penguin Classic 9780140442106

Four Tragedies and Octavia:

Thyestes, Phaedra, The Trojan women, Oedipus, with Octavia,
translated by E. F. Watling, Penguin Classic 9780140441741

Suetonius:  The Twelve Caesars, translated by Robert Graves and revised with an introduction by James Rives, Penguin Classic 9780140455168

Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome, translated by Michael Grant,
Penguin Classic 9780140440607

ESSAYS:

ESSAYS AND REPORTS  (50%)

A continuous list of Essays and reports will be assigned throughout the Fall and Winter Terms.

RESEARCH ESSAY (50%)

A major research essay emerging from work done in first and second term will be assigned in Winter Term.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ESSAYS ARE DUE IN SEMINAR AT THE SEMINAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SEMINAR AT WHICH ANY REPORT WAS PRESENTED.  ANY ESSAY HANDED IN AFTER THAT DATE WILL HAVE ONE GRADE SUBTRACTED FROM ITS EVALUATION FOR EACH SEMINAR BY WHICH IT IS OVERDUE; E.G. AN "A" ESSAY HANDED IN ONE SEMINAR LATE WILL BE GRADED  "B" ETC.

You must make and retain copies of all assignments submitted in seminar.  You should also be able to produce notes and material used to prepare assignments as required.

PARTICIPATION

Participation in seminar is obligatory! 

FORMAT:

The seminar will meet weekly on Wednesday from 08:30 - 11:20.  Students will have read and worked through material assigned and questions raised from each seminar week by week.  Failure to prepare in advance or to attend  will be to the academic disadvantage of students who do not prepare or attend seminar.

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 carefully read and understand:

 http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/policies/document.php?document=69

Rule # 24 You may no longer eat or drink in seminar.   You must either have breakfast before the session or starve.  This is a matter of courtesy to your fellow students and a matter of necessity for one of the professors who gains significantly in weight merely by looking at food!

TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS: FALL TERM 2008 -Revised  

September  3   ars imperii II: Sunday 27 May 33

                        Lucas 2. 1,15-2

Suetonius, vitae Caesarum (Lives of Caesars)

First Assignments Assigned

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10     Suetonius, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius

17     Suetonius,  Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian

24     Tacitus, annales          

October     [1      Q. Curtius Rufus, HISTORIARUM ALEXANDRI MAGNI LIBRI QUI SUPERSUNT

                            (The History of Alexander)]

8           Curtius Rufus

15          Lucan    

22      Lucan 

29      Petronius

November      5      Persius

  6      2008 Fall term suspended

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2009 Fall Term continued

February       4      Persius, Josephus bellum

11      Seneca, epistulae  (Letters from a Stoic)

 Research Essay: Session 1

18     = Monday! 

WINTER TERM 2009

March           4     Family Values: Caligula, Claudius and Nero

Seneca's Tragedies

11     Family Values: Caligula, Claudius and Nero

 Seneca, dialogi (Dialogues and Letters)

18    ipse dixit  Caesar's own words.

P. London 1912

CIL XIII 1.668 col. 2

CIL XIII  1.668 (Lewis and Reinhold)

CIL V 5.050

res gestae divi Augusti

Edict of Ti. Iulius Alexander

25    Presentation # 1:  Readings to follow.

Seneca: Letters

Paulus:  Letters

April              1    fortuna Caesaris: Rachel Pendlebury

Articles and Texts

  8      Alston 1997

Bell 1941

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