History of Ancient Rome

HIA 321 • Spring 2021 • Prof. Wilson

 

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Week 1: Introduction and Evidence

Meeting Date: Thursday, February 4

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Sign up for a Presentation. 

Everyone does one presentation this semester, and you need to be signed up. If you haven’t already, make sure you are signed up for a presentation using the sign-up sheet.

On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

 

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Week 2: Tribes and Kings

Meeting Date: Thursday, February 11

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

 

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Week 3: Patricians and Plebeians

Meeting Date: Thursday, February 18

Before the Meeting Day
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.  

Take Quiz #1 by Feb. 24. (Closed)

 

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Week 4: Conquering the West

Meeting Date: Thursday, February 25

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.  

Take Quiz #2 by March 3. (Closed)

 

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Week 5: Acquisition of Empire

Meeting Date: Thursday, March 4

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #3 by March 10. (Closed)

 

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Week 6: Optimates and Plebeians

Meeting Date: Thursday, March 11

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #4 by March 17.

 

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Week 7: Crossing the Rubicon

Meeting Date: Thursday, March 18

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Upload your Proposal.  

Upload your proposal to BlackBoard by March 18.

 

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Week 8: End of the Republic

Meeting Date: Thursday, March 25

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #5 by April 7.

 

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Week 9: Augustus, Princeps, Imperator

Meeting Date: Thursday, April 8

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #6 by April 14.

 

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Week 10: Succession and Empire

Meeting Date: Thursday, April 15

Before the Meeting Day
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Upload your Representations and Images Essay.  

Upload your images essay to BlackBoard by April 15.
Before you upload, make sure you have checked your submission against the essay requirements and the requirements for all essays.

 

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Week 11: The Roman Peace

Meeting Date: Thursday, April 22

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #7 by April 28. (Closed)

 

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Week 12: Third Century Crisis

Meeting Date: Thursday, April 29

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #8 by May 5. (Closed)

 

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Week 13: The New Empire

Meeting Date: Thursday, May 6

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Take the quiz.

Take Quiz #9 by May 12. (Closed)

 

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Week 14: The End of antiquity

Meeting Date: Thursday, May 13

Before the Meeting Day
1. Watch the video lectures.
2. Do the readings.
On the Meeting Day
3. Post in the discussion area below.

Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture.

4. Upload your Position Paper.  

Upload your paper to BlackBoard by May 17.
Before you upload, make sure you have checked your submission against the essay requirements and the requirements for all essays.

 

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Final Examination

Due: Thursday, May 20

 

2. Upload your Final Exam.  

You must upload your responses to BlackBoard in a Word or PDF file no later than Thursday, May 20.

 

Presentation #1 Sign-Up

Reply in the comments below with the presentation you want to take. Specify by number so it’s clear. Make sure the one you’re signing up for is not already taken by someone else. Everyone must sign up for one presentation. As always I'm grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!

  • Presentations will be given in the discussion that class meeting’s weekly page. Discussion area presentations are due the night before the class meeting day, so they are already there for people to read and respond to.
  • Please also submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
  • Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirementsin the syllabus in terms of length (the length of a 2-3 page essay = ~500-750 words) and expected content (reactive and analytical).

Pick one, then click on the blue button at the bottom to open the sign-up page:

  1. (Johnathan) DIONYSIUS / On the Subject of Roman History
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  2. (Vanessalee) DIONYSIUS / Early Rules for Clients and Patrons
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  3. LIVY / Numa’s Religious Settlement
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  4. (Carol) LIVY / The Capture of the Sabine Women
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  5. DIONYSIUS / Servius Tullius’s Reform of the Comitia Centuriata
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  6. (Francis) LIVY / The Rape of Lucretia
    (Post in the Week 2 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 11)
  7. (Saila) DIONYSIUS / Coriolanus Opposes the Plebs
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  8. DIONYSIUS / The Tribunes and their Manipulation
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  9. (Naya) FRAGMENTS / The Twelve Tables
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  10. LIVY, DIONYSIUS / The Roman Way of Declaring War
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  11. CICERO, DIONYSIUS / The Mythology of the Farmer General
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  12. LIVY / The Defeat of the Latins
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  13. (Rush) POLYBIUS / The Constitution of the Roman Republic
    (Post in the Week 3 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 18)
  14. POLYBIUS / The Roman Maniple vs. the Macedonian Phalanx
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  15. LIVY / The Samnites’ ‘Linen Legion’ Remains Undaunted
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  16. (Erika) CORNELIUS NEPOS / Hannibal
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  17. (Elio) POLYBIUS / The Battle of Cannae
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  18. (Maria) LIVY, PRUDENTIUS / The Magna Mater
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  19. (Kyle) POLYBIUS / The Siege of Syracuse
    (Post in the Week 4 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Feb 25)
  20. POLYBIUS / The Destruction of Corinth
    (Post in the Week 5 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 4)
  21. (Arely) LIVY / Cato Opposes Extravagance
    (Post in the Week 5 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 4)
  22. PLAUTUS / From The Menaechmi
    (Post in the Week 5 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 4)
  23. (Youshmattie) VARIOUS / Accounts of the Roman State Religion
    (Post in the Week 5 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 4)
  24. VARIOUS / Slavery in the Roman Republic
    (Post in the Week 5 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 4)
  25. APPIAN / On Tiberius Gracchus
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  26. (Declan) PLUTARCH / On Tiberius Gracchus
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  27. APPIAN / On Gaius Gracchus
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  28. SALLUST / Speech of Marius Against the Nobility
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  29. APPIAN AND PLUTARCH / Mithridates Against Rome
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  30. (Hanielyah) APPIAN / Drusus and his Enemies
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  31. (Ashley) LIVY, APPIAN / Sulla’s Brutality
    (Post in the Week 6 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 11)
  32. SALLUST / Pompey’s Letter to the Senate
    (Post in the Week 7 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 18)
  33. (Kelvin) CICERO / Against Catiline
    (Post in the Week 7 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 18)
  34. (Autumn) APPIAN / Pompey’s Conquest of the East
    (Post in the Week 7 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 18)
  35. (Ruth) ASCONIUS / The Murder of Clodius
    (Post in the Week 7 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 18)
  36. (Kevin) SUETONIUS / On Julius Caesar
    (Post in the Week 7 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 18)

 

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Presentation #2 Sign-Up

Reply in the comments below with the presentation you want to take. Specify by number so it’s clear. Make sure the one you’re signing up for is not already taken by someone else. Everyone must sign up for one presentation. As always I'm grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!

  • Presentations will be given in the discussion that class meeting’s weekly page. Discussion area presentations are due the night before the class meeting day, so they are already there for people to read and respond to.
  • Please also submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
  • Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirementsin the syllabus in terms of length (the length of a 2-3 page essay = ~500-750 words) and expected content (reactive and analytical).

Pick one, then click on the blue button at the bottom to open the sign-up page:

  1. (Ashley) PLUTARCH / The Assassination of Julius Caesar
    (Post in the Week 8 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 25)
  2. (Vanessalee) Q. CICERO / The Roman Candidate
    (Post in the Week 8 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 25)
  3. (Youshmattie) SALLUST / Life in Rome in the Late Republic
    (Post in the Week 8 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 25)
  4. (Carol) CICERO / Scipio’s Dream
    (Post in the Week 8 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 25)
  5. (Kyle) CICERO / On the Rise of Augustus
    (Post in the Week 8 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Mar 25)
  6. CATULLUS / Selections
    (Post in the Week 9 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 8)
  7. (Francis) HORACE / The Secular Hymn
    (Post in the Week 9 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 8)
  8. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS / The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
    (Post in the Week 9 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 8)
  9. (Erika) AUGUSTUS / Acts of the Divine Augustus
    (Post in the Week 9 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 8)
  10. (Eamonn) TACITUS / The Death of Augustus and the Accession of Tiberius Nero
    (Post in the Week 9 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 8)
  11. CLAUDIUS / A Speech on Incorporating the Gauls
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  12. SENECA / The Pumpkinification of Claudius
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  13. (Arely) TACITUS / The Principle of Adoption
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  14. TACITUS / The Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  15. JOSEPHUS / The Roman Army in the First Century CE
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  16. LEGAL TEXT / Law Concerning the Power of Vespasian
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  17. PLINY THE YOUNGER / Panegyric Addressed to the Emperor Trajan
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  18. PLINY THE YOUNGER / The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  19. SUETONIUS / How Domitian Attempted to Amuse the Populace
    (Post in the Week 10 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 15)
  20. (Saila) PLINY THE ELDER / The Grandeur of Rome
    (Post in the Week 11 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 22)
  21. (Maria) STRABO, OXYRHYNCHOS PAPYRI / Egypt under the Roman Empire
    (Post in the Week 11 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 22)
  22. (Autumn) VARIOUS / Roman Educational Practices
    (Post in the Week 11 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 22)
  23. (Declan) MARCUS AURELIUS / On the Virtue of Antoninus Pius
    (Post in the Week 11 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 22)
  24. (Johnathan) EUTROPIUS / The Reign of Marcus Aurelius
    (Post in the Week 11 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 22)
  25. (Ruth) ZOSIMUS / Imperial Weakness Invites Barbarian Aggression
    (Post in the Week 12 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 29)
  26. EUSEBIUS / The Persecution under Decius
    (Post in the Week 12 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 29)
  27. (Elio) VOPISCUS / Aurelian’s Conquest of Palmyra
    (Post in the Week 12 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 29)
  28. HERODIAN / How Didius Julianus Bought the Empire at Auction
    (Post in the Week 12 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 29)
  29. (Ana) VARIOUS / The Lives of Soldiers and Sailors
    (Post in the Week 12 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before Apr 29)
  30. DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE / Efforts to Stabilize the Economy
    (Post in the Week 13 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 6)
  31. EUSEBIUS / The Conversion of Constantine
    (Post in the Week 13 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 6)
  32. CONSTANTINE / The Edict of Milan
    (Post in the Week 13 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 6)
  33. (Kevin) SOZOMEN / Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324 CE
    (Post in the Week 13 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 6)
  34. (Naya) JULIAN / Letter to Arsacius
    (Post in the Week 13 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 6)
  35. (Rush) AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS / The Luxury of the Rich in Rome
    (Post in the Week 14 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 13)
  36. PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA / Alaric’s Sack of Rome, 410 CE
    (Post in the Week 14 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 13)
  37. RUTILIUS NAMATIANUS / The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE
    (Post in the Week 14 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 13)
  38. (Hanielyah) JORDANES / The Battle of Chalons, 451 CE
    (Post in the Week 14 discussion area and submit on BlackBoard before May 13)

 

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