Ancient Rome
 

 

Presentation Signup #1

Everyone must sign up for one presentation for the first half of the semester, and another for the second half.
  • As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
    • Presentations will be given during the class meeting that we discuss that reading.
    • You will also need to submit a written version afterwards. See the the write-up page for more. The write-up requirements are a good guide to what the presentation itself will need to include.
  • Pick one reading, 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.
  • If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, email me.
  1. On the Subject of Roman History: Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 1)
  2. Numa’s Religious Settlement: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, February 1)
  3. The Capture of the Sabine Women: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, February 1)
  4. Servius Tullius’s Reform of the Comitia Centuriata: Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 1)
  5. The Rape of Lucretia: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, February 1)
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  7. Early Rules for Clients and Patrons: Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 8)
  8. Coriolanus Opposes the Plebs: Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 8)
  9. The Twelve Tables: Fragments
    (Present on Thursday, February 8)
  10. The Roman Way of Declaring War: Livy, Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 8)
  11. The Defeat of the Latins: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, February 8)
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  13. The Tribunes and their Manipulation: Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 15)
  14. The Mythology of the Farmer General: Cicero, Dionysius
    (Present on Thursday, February 15)
  15. The Constitution of the Roman Republic: Polybius
    (Present on Thursday, February 15)
  16. The Roman Maniple vs. the Macedonian Phalanx: Polybius
    (Present on Thursday, February 15)
  17. The Samnites’ ‘Linen Legion’ Remains Undaunted: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, February 15)
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  19. Hannibal: Cornelius Nepos
    (Present on Thursday, February 29)
  20. The Battle of Cannae: Polybius
    (Present on Thursday, February 29)
  21. The Magna Mater: Livy, Prudentius
    (Present on Thursday, February 29)
  22. The Siege of Syracuse: Polybius
    (Present on Thursday, February 29)
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  1. The Destruction of Corinth: Polybius
    (Present on Thursday, March 7)
  2. Cato Opposes Extravagance: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, March 7)
  3. From The Menaechmi: Plautus
    (Present on Thursday, March 7)
  4. Accounts of the Roman State Religion: Various
    (Present on Thursday, March 7)
  5. Slavery in the Roman Republic: Various
    (Present on Thursday, March 7)
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  7. On Tiberius Gracchus: Appian
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  8. On Tiberius Gracchus: Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  9. On Gaius Gracchus: Appian
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  10. Speech of Marius Against the Nobility: Sallust
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  11. Mithridates Against Rome: Appian And Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  12. Drusus and his Enemies: Appian
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)
  13. Sulla’s Brutality: Livy, Appian
    (Present on Thursday, March 14)