Programme in
Classical Studies
History 4130
Problems in Roman History
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Paul Swarney 033 McLaughlin
College 416-736-5158 pswarney@yorku.ca |
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Required Texts:
Books required for purchase from
the University Bookstore (or wherever you buy books):
1. Naphtali
Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume I,
2. Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman
Civilization Volume II,
3. A.S Hunt and C.C. Edgar, Select Papyri I, Loeb Classical Library
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4. A.S Hunt and C.C. Edgar, Select Papyri II, Loeb Classical
Library (
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 ON THE
ASSIGNED DATE. ANY ESSAY HANDED IN AFTER THE DUE 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 class. 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 - 10:20.
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.
YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ AND REMBER THE
UNIVERSITY POLICY ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY!
http://www.yorku.ca/academicintegrity
Rule # 24 You may no longer eat or drink in
seminar. 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 one of
the professors who gains significantly in weight merely by looking at food!
LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS: FALL TERM MMV
September 07 The
first century
Suetonius, Caesar
Augustus
Caesar Augustus, res
gestae
First Essay Due
First report assigned
14 The first century
21 The first century
28
The first century
Margarette Moniz
Event: The Death of Tiberius
Document:
“Oath of the Aritensians”. Corpus Inscriptionum
Latinarum (CIL), vol. II, no. 72 (=
Found in:
Lewis, Naphtali, and Meyer Reinhold, ed. Roman Civilizations vol. II: The Empire. 3rd ed.
Article:
A.J. Woodman, “Obituary of
Tiberius”, The
Classical Quarterly 39 no.1
(1989): pp.197-205.
Book:
Barbara Levick, Tiberius the Politician,
Ancient Source:
J.C.Rolfe, Suetonius, De Vita
Caesarum: Tiberius, The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Zahar Orlov
Event:
The
fall of Masada
Date:
April 15 , 73 AD
Historical Document:
A.S Hunt and C.C. Edgar, “Toll Receit" P.Oxy. 1439
Select Papyri II, Loeb Classic
Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and
William Heinmann LTD, 1956, 485
Book:
Yadin Yaegal, Masada:
Herod’s Fortress and the Zealot’s Last Stand, New York: Welcome Rain, 1998
Article:
Goodman, Martin “Trajan and the Origins of Roman Hostility to the Jews” Past and Present,
no182 (2004): 3-29
Ancient Historian:
Josephus Flavius, Antiquities, XVII
Josephus
Flavius, The War of the Jewish, XIV
October 05 The
first century
Name: Aris Kappos
Event
& Date:
Death of Nero, 9th or 11th June, 68 CE
Document:
P.Tebt.380.
Select Papyri I:
Private Affairs. Translated by A. S. Hunt et al. Vol. 266, Document 54.
Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. pp. 163-165
*A
translation can be found on the opposing pages*
Article:
Benny R. Reece., “The Date of Nero’s Death”, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 90, No. 1. (Jan. 1969), pp.
72-74.
Book: David Shotter., Nero (2nd
edition). (New York: Routledge) 2005.
Ancient Historian: Dio: The Julio-Claudians.
Translated by Jonathan Edmondson. (London: London Association of Classical Teachers)
1992. pp. 111-112
12
The first century
Event:
Document:
Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold.
Eds, Roman Civilization vII The Empire.
Article:
B.H. Isaac and
“A Milestone of A.D. 69 From
The Journal of Roman Studies. Vol. 66. 1976. pp 15-19.
Book:
Barbara Levick. Vespasian.
Ancient Historian:
Suetonius. Trans by Harriet Margretta
Thompson Skerrett, A.M.
C. Suetoni Tranquilli De Vita Ceasarum Liber
VIII Divus Vespasianus, Suetonius’ Life Of Vespasian.
19 The first century
26
The first century
Heather
McKnight
Event
The
Eruption of
Document
L’Annee
Epigraphique, 1962, no. 288;
Lewis,
Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold. “The
Empire”, Roman Civilization Vol II
Selected
Article
Haraldur
Sigurdsson; Stanford Cashdollar; Stephen R.J. Sparks. “The Eruption of Vesuvius
in A.D. 79: Reconstruction from Historical and Volcanological Evidence” American
Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 86, No. 1, Jan 1982 pp. 39-51.
Book
Michael
Grant. Cities of Vesuvius:
The Macmillan Company,
Ancient Historian
Pliny,
transl. Betty Radice, The Letters of the
Younger Pliny
“To
Cornelius Tacitus”, Book 6, n. 16, Penguin Books Ltd.,
Gabriella
Bator
Event
The murder of Julius Ceasar March 15, 44 BC
Document
Select Papyri II Public Documents, 209. .BGU 8.173, (prostagma concerning wheat
and pulse from middle of Egypt) Edicts and Orders The Royal Decree 50 B.C. Page
57 and 59.
Article
Kenneth, Scott, "The SIDUS IULIUM and the Apotheosis of Caesar",
Journal of Classical Philology, The University of Chicago Press.
Copyright
1941.
Book
Irwin Wallace 1876- , The Julius Caesar murder case. New York: Appleton
Century,
1935. Call Number PS
3517 R87 J8
Ancient Historian
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (tr. C. Edwards).
Oxford World Classics. Copyright 2000. Call Number DG 277 S83 2000.
Dennis
Ovsyannikov
Event: The
crossing of the river Rubicon by Julius Caesar.
Date of event:
November 10/11, 50 B.C.
Document: B.G.U. 1730
Translation:
Hunt A. S. and Edgar C. C. Trans. Select Papyri II: Official Documents.
Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003. #209.
Article: Robert Stanton. "Why
did Caesar cross the Rubicon?" Historia. 52(1) (2003) 67-94
Book: Roman L. Jimenez. Caesar
Against Rome. Westport: Praeger
Publishers, 2000.
Ancient Historian: Plutarch, "Caesar." Roman
Lives. Trans. Robin Waterfield. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 302-359
November 02 The
first century
Beatrice Kimak
Burning
of
Document:
A.S Hunt and C.C. Edgar, “13. Apprenticeship to a Weaver.” Select Papyri I,
Loeb Classic Library.
Call #: PA 3611 A9 1932
Article: C.E. Manning, Acting and Nero’s Conception of the
Principate. Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser., Vol. 22, No. 2.
(Oct., 1975), pp. 164-175.
Book:
Shotter, David. Nero.
Call #: DG 285 S535 2005
Grant,
Michael. Nero: Emperor in Revolt.
Call#: DG 285 G73 1970
Ancient
Historian:
Suetonius.
“Nero.” Lives of the Caesars.
Call #: DG 277 S83 2000
Parthenia Magharious
Event & Date
The
deposit of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti with the Vestal Virgins-
Document
EJ no.
98a (Asia Mourns the God Augustus). Translation found:
Naphtali
Lewis & Meyer Reinhold, eds., Roman Civilization Volume I: The Republic and the Augustan Age, New
York: Columbia University Press,
third edition 1990. (pp. 627)
Journal Article Brian Bosworth, “Augustus, the Res Gestae and
Hellenistic Theories of Apotheosis” The
Journal of Roman Studies v. 89 1999 [pp. 1-18]
Book Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, Augustus: the life and times of the founder of the Roman Empire (BC
63-AD 14), London: T. F. Unwin, 1903.
Ancient Historian Suetonius. Trans. Catherine Edwards, Lives of the Caesars “The
Deified Augustus”
Name: Alex Kyriakides
Event
& Date:
End of the Third Mithridatic War, 64/63 BC
Document: B.G.U 1749
Order for Payment of Soldiers Wages, 63 BC,
Select Papyri II:
Public Affairs. Translated by A. S. Hunt et al. Doc. 393 Loeb
Classical Library.
Article:
Article: “The Date of the Outbreak of the Third Mithridatic War,” BC McGing
Vol. 38 (1): 12-18 1984
Book:
Modern
Book: He Died Old: Mithridates Eupator,
King of
Ancient
Historian:
Appianus
of
09
The first century
Elana Winick
Event The
Ancient Documents P. Bingen 45 and
L’Année Epigraphique, 1977, no.778; 29 B.C.
Bingen,
P(?). can be found at [http://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/3130/p-Bingen-45.htm]
Lewis,
Naphtali and Meyer Reinhold. Roman Civilization: Volume I: The Republic
and
And
The Augustan Age. 3rd
Ed.
pp.329.
Journal
Article
pp.153-164.
Book
Gurval,
Robert Alan.
1998.
Ancient
Historian
Paterculus, Velleius. “The
Divi
Augustae., trans. Frederick W.
Shipley.
University Press, 1924, pp. 226-235
(History of
16 The first century
Nicole Gavin
The death of Augustus, August 19 AD 14
Ancient
Documents
Ehrenberg, V. and Jones, A. eds. "September 17,
AD 14." Documents Illustrating the
Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. p.52 (CIL. I,
p.243)
Sherk,
R. ed.& trans. "September 17, AD 14" in The Roman Empire: Augustus toHadrian. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1988. p. 4
Journal Article
M.P. Charlesworth, “Tiberius and the Death of
Augustus” The American Journal of
Philology, Vol. 44, pp. 145-157, 1923
Book
W. Eck, The Age
of Augustus, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2003
Ancient
Historian
Dio Cassius Book 56 Sections 29-4,
Tom Leszczyk
Document:
Narbo
honours Augustus' Birthday CIL, vol. XII, no. 4333 (=
Naphtali
Lewis, Meyer Reinhold, eds. Roman Civilization:
The Republic and Augustan Age.
Article:
Book:
Wells,
Peter S. The
Ancient Historian:
Frederick W. Shipley. The
Roman History, Velleius Paterculus
Roman History. II, 117-120
Rick
Last
Event: Paul’s Conversion: 36-8 CE
Document: P. Lond 1912, Document 212
Translation:
C. Edgar, Document 212,
2003,
79-89.
Article: Rordorf, Willy,“Paul’s Conversion in the Canonical
Acts and in the Acts of
Paul,” Translated by Peter W. Dunn, Semeia 80
(1997), 137-144.
Book: Segal, Alan F., Paul, Paul The Convert: The Apostolate
And Apostasy of Saul The
Pharisee,
Ancient
Historian: “Luke,” Acts of the
Apostles, ch.13-28. From the New Revised
Standard Version Bible, 1989.
23
The first century
Cuffy
Event:
1.
Event Name: The
Emperor Vespasian accent and the Flavian Dynasty
2.
Event date:
Article:
3.
Author First Last
Name: Carlos F. Norena
4.
“Title of
Article”: The Communication of the Emperor’s Virtues.
5.
Journal Vol. +
Date pp.: The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. XCI 2001 + pp. 146-168
Book:
6.
Book: Vespasian
7.
Author First Last
Name: Barbara Levick
8.
Title, Publisher,
Place, Date, Year: C.J. Phoeniz-Toronto-2001 VOL55; Part ¾, pages 460-461
9.
Ancient
Historian: Tacitus
10.
Name of
translation: Lewis, N. and Reinhold, M. Roman Civilization Vol. II, 3rd.
Edition.
11.
Work, Book,
Sections: Histories II. lxxix –lxxxi (abridged)
Ryan Kampen
Birth of Jesus Christ: December (possibly), 5 BC.
Dorothy-Jean Weaver, Rewriting
the Messianic script: Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus.
Interpretation (
Raymond E. Brown, The birth
of the Messiah: a Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of
Matthew and Luke.
Luke the evangelist.
Translation available in any Bible, else here:http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202&version=31
Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-7.
30 The first century
December 07 The first century
Essay 1
Due: Wednesday 07 September 125 Winters College 08:30
Length: 1
double spaced typewritten page
Topic: The
three most important events of the first
century
Select three events from the
first century that you consider most important.
Carefully explain your choices.