Swarney’s Presentation Pre-readings

 

JANUARY 11th Class:

       

73-71 BC         Maria Rocca                    The Revolt of Sparticus

Select Papyri I: Private Affairs.  Loeb Classic Library, Doc 40 “Lease of Cleruchic Land” p 123.

 

AD 80                      Genevieve Durigon  Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre

Lewis and Reinhold Vol II page 242 LAnne Epigraphique 1962 no 288 Concerns Titus and taxes

 

JANUARY 18th Class:

 
AD 79 Aug 24th Heather McKnight               Eruption of Vesuvius
Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold Vol II p 242
Loeb Classical Library, Selected Papyri II, Public Documents, p175-176
Tacitus”, Book 6, n. 16, Penguin Books p. 166-168

 

AD 34?            Alex Kyriakides                          Crucifixion of Jesus

Select Papyri II: Public Affair. Loeb Classical Library.Doc 278: “Complaint of a Robbery”

 

JANUARY 25th Class:

 
Early 44 BC      Conrad Hartmann             Julius Caesar as Dictator for Life
Lewis and Meyer Reinhold Vol 1 p.449-453; Plutarch, Roman Lives: Caesar p.297-359.
 
50 BC Nov 10/11th      Dennis Ovsyannikov             Crossing of the Rubicon

Hunt A. S. and Edgar C. C. Trans. Select Papyri II: Official Documents.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. p.57, #209.

Plutarch, "Caesar." Roman Lives.  Oxford University Press, 1999. 302-359                

 

FEBRUARY 8th Class:

 

AD 67               Lesley Giacomel                 Vespasian and the Jewish War 
Naphtali Lewis & Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization vII  pp 13-15
Suetonius www.gutenberg.org/files/6395/6395 volume 10, dec 14 2004txt

 

AD 73      April 15th  Zahar Orlov                        Fall of Masada

“Toll Receit" P.Oxy. 1439 Select Papyri II, Loeb Classic Library. P 485  

Josephus Book 7 http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/war-7.htm
 
FEBRUARY 22nd Class:
 
AD 69, July 3rd Rosemarie Cuffy              Vespasian, first of the Flavians
Vespasian chapter in Suetonius "The Twelve Caesars” –Penguin
Lewis, N. and Reinhold Vol. II. pg. 11, “The Powers of the Emperor”
 
44 BC March 15th       Gabriella Bator                 Murder of Julius Caesar
Select Papyri II Public Documents, 209. (concerning wheat from middle of Egypt) p 57 and 59.
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Julius Caesar. Oxford World Classics.
 
MARCH 1st Class:
 
5 BC (roughly)  Ryan Kampen                   Birth of Jesus Christ
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0001&layout=&query=document%3D%231111&loc=1120        
Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2, verses 1-7.
Itskovich           -No information available at this time
 
MARCH 8th Class:
 
AD 68               Aris Kappos            Death of Nero
Select Papyri I: Private Affairs, Loeb Classical Library. Doc 54, “Resignation of Claims to an Estate”, written in 67 CE. P 163-165
Cassius Dio The Julio-Claudians, Roman History, book 63, pp. 111-112
 
31 BC Sept 2nd                    Elana Winick          The Battle of Actium
Horace, Epode 9; Propertius Poems 3.11, 2.1, 2.15, 2.16, 2.34; Naphtali & Reinhold Vol I p. 329
Vergil’s Aenied Book 8: lines 671-731; http://www.columbia.edu/itc/classics/ P. Bingen 45;
 Paterculus, Velleius. "The Varian Disaster" pp. 296-307 (History of Rome: 2.17-20) or

Paterculus, Velleius. “The Battle of Actium” pp. 226-235 (History of Rome 2.84-87).

 
MARCH 15th Class:
 
???                   Rick Last                          Conversion of Paul the apostle

Select Papyri: Public Doc. # 211, “Two Edicts of Germanicus,” p. 77-79

Select Papyri: Public Doc #329, “Sworn Decl. of Fishermen,” p.373-375
Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, “By-Laws of a Society,” pp. 185-88
Acts 9:3-19, 22:6-16, 26:12-18, Acts 15 and Gal. 1:1-12, 15-16
 
AD 9                 Tom Leszczyk                   Battle of Teutoburg Wald
Lewis & Reinhold, Roman Civilization vol I p 623-624 “Narbo honours Augustus' birthday”
 
MARCH 22nd Class:
 
AD 37               Margarette Moniz              Death of Tiberius
"The oath of the Aritensians” Lewis, Naphtali. Roman Civilization: Volume II p 8
 

AD 14 Aug 19th                 Nicole Gavin               Death of Augustus

Cassius Dio. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus Book 56 Chapters 29-47; Seutonius. The Twelve Caesars, “Augustus” p. 54-112; Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold Vol I. p. 627 “Asia Mourns the God Augustus”.

 
MARCH 29th Class:
 
AD 78?             Beatrice Kimak                 Nero and the burning of Rome
“Apprenticeship to a Weaver”.  Select Papyri I, Loeb Classic Library p 39
Suetonius. “Nero.” Lives of the Caesars. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000. p 195-227.
 
AD 14 Aug 20th           Anthony Marchetti             The ascension of Tiberius
Two edicts of Germanicus dated A.D. 19, Select Papyri II: Public Affairs.  p 76, # 211.
 
 
AD 13 April 3rd  Parthenia Margharious           Augustus’ will deposited with the Vestal Virgins
Naphtali Lewis & Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Vol I. p 627; p.636-638
Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars,  “The Deified Augustus”  Oxford University Press, 2000.