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Week 7: Crossing the Rubicon
Thursday, March 19
(1) Video lectures on Youtube
7a - Marius 7b - Sulla 7c - Pompey and Cicero 7d - Caesar
(2) Do the readings
READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
| XV. Personal Ambitions: The Failure of Sulla’s Optimate Oligarchy | Ward184–199 |
| XVI. Caesar Wins and Is Lost | Ward200–216 |
READ AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
| SALLUST / Pompey’s Letter to the Senate | Reader60 |
| CICERO / Against Catiline | Reader61 |
| APPIAN / Pompey’s Conquest of the East | Reader65 |
| ASCONIUS / The Murder of Clodius | Reader66 |
| SUETONIUS / On Julius Caesar | Reader71 |
(3) Post in the comments below
(4) Submit your Proposal (email file to professor)
(5) Sign up for your Presentation #2 (go to sign-up page)
Discussion and Presentations
Respond to and discuss the readings and lecture. Also try to react to what other students are saying. This is where we get at what these readings and ideas are all about, so discussing and interacting here is absolutely vital.
- Your comments should include your reactions to the arguments made in the readings, both specific points made by the writers and their overall claims, assumptions, and biases, as well as responses to comments made by other students.
- Your participation grade will be derive not only from the fact that you have posted, but on how well you contribute to the discussion of that day’s topic.
Make sure to also include a question that arose from you from today's readings or lecture. It can be any kind of question, but ideally something that provokes some discussion.
Important: Please treat this as an in-class discussion, not like an internet comment board. What I'm asking for is reaction, discussion, and real questions about the material, as a part of your weekly participation in the course.