Presentations will be given in the class meeting’s that we discuss that reading.
You also need to submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirements in 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 the button to claim it. If there’s a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one’s already been picked by another student. As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, please email me.
Alaya L.
PLUTARCH / The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Present on Thursday, March 24)
Q. CICERO / The Roman Candidate (Present on Thursday, March 24)
Daniel T.
SALLUST / Life in Rome in the Late Republic (Present on Thursday, March 24)
CICERO / Scipio’s Dream (Present on Thursday, March 24)
CICERO / On the Rise of Augustus (Present on Thursday, March 24)
CATULLUS / Selections (Present on Thursday, March 31)
HORACE / The Secular Hymn (Present on Thursday, March 31)
VELLEIUS PATERCULUS / The Battle of Teutoburg Forest (Present on Thursday, March 31)
Gianmarco R.
AUGUSTUS / Acts of the Divine Augustus (Present on Thursday, March 31)
TACITUS / The Death of Augustus and the Accession of Tiberius Nero (Present on Thursday, March 31)
CLAUDIUS / A Speech on Incorporating the Gauls (Present on Thursday, April 7)
SENECA / The Pumpkinification of Claudius (Present on Thursday, April 7)
Jennifer D.
TACITUS / The Principle of Adoption (Present on Thursday, April 7)
TACITUS / The Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor (Present on Thursday, April 7)
JOSEPHUS / The Roman Army in the First Century CE (Present on Thursday, April 7)
LEGAL TEXT / Law Concerning the Power of Vespasian (Present on Thursday, April 7)
Sharis I.
SUETONIUS / How Domitian Attempted to Amuse the Populace (Present on Thursday, April 7)
Daniel A.
PLINY THE ELDER / The Grandeur of Rome (Present on Thursday, April 14)
PLINY THE YOUNGER / Panegyric Addressed to the Emperor Trajan (Present on Thursday, April 14)
PLINY THE YOUNGER / The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor (Present on Thursday, April 14)
STRABO, OXYRHYNCHOS PAPYRI / Egypt under the Roman Empire (Present on Thursday, April 14)
Andrea D.
VARIOUS / Roman Educational Practices (Present on Thursday, April 14)
Kelvin A.
MARCUS AURELIUS / On the Virtue of Antoninus Pius (Present on Thursday, April 14)
EUTROPIUS / The Reign of Marcus Aurelius (Present on Thursday, April 14)
Julio H.
ZOSIMUS / Imperial Weakness Invites Barbarian Aggression (Present on Thursday, April 28)
EUSEBIUS / The Persecution under Decius (Present on Thursday, April 28)
VOPISCUS / Aurelian’s Conquest of Palmyra (Present on Thursday, April 28)
HERODIAN / How Didius Julianus Bought the Empire at Auction (Present on Thursday, April 28)
Jack F.
VARIOUS / The Lives of Soldiers and Sailors (Present on Thursday, April 28)
DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE / Efforts to Stabilize the Economy (Present on Thursday, May 5)
Enrique H.
EUSEBIUS / The Conversion of Constantine (Present on Thursday, May 5)
William R.
CONSTANTINE / The Edict of Milan (Present on Thursday, May 5)
Estefania O.
SOZOMEN / Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324 CE (Present on Thursday, May 5)
JULIAN / Letter to Arsacius (Present on Thursday, May 5)
Jada A.
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS / The Luxury of the Rich in Rome (Present on Thursday, May 12)
PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA / Alaric’s Sack of Rome, 410 CE (Present on Thursday, May 12)
Jonathan C.
RUTILIUS NAMATIANUS / The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE (Present on Thursday, May 12)
JORDANES / The Battle of Chalons, 451 CE (Present on Thursday, May 12)