Ancient Rome
 

 

Presentation Signup #2

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. Pompey’s Letter to the Senate: Sallust
    (Present on Thursday, March 21)
  2. Against Catiline: Cicero
    (Present on Thursday, March 21)
  3. Pompey’s Conquest of the East: Appian
    (Present on Thursday, March 21)
  4. The Murder of Clodius: Asconius
    (Present on Thursday, March 21)
  5. On Julius Caesar: Suetonius
    (Present on Thursday, March 21)
  6.  
  7. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, March 28)
  8. The Roman Candidate: Q. Cicero
    (Present on Thursday, March 28)
  9. Life in Rome in the Late Republic: Sallust
    (Present on Thursday, March 28)
  10. Scipio’s Dream: Cicero
    (Present on Thursday, March 28)
  11. On the Rise of Augustus: Cicero
    (Present on Thursday, March 28)
  12.  
  13. Selections: Catullus
    (Present on Thursday, April 4)
  14. The Secular Hymn: Horace
    (Present on Thursday, April 4)
  15. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest: Velleius Paterculus
    (Present on Thursday, April 4)
  16. Acts of the Divine Augustus: Augustus
    (Present on Thursday, April 4)
  17. The Death of Augustus and the Accession of Tiberius: Tacitus
    (Present on Thursday, April 4)
  18.  
  19. A Speech on Incorporating the Gauls: Claudius
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  20. The Pumpkinification of Claudius: Seneca
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  21. The Principle of Adoption: Tacitus
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  22. The Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor: Tacitus
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  23. The Roman Army in the First Century CE: Josephus
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  24. Law Concerning the Power of Vespasian: Legal Text
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  25. How Domitian Attempted to Amuse the Populace: Suetonius
    (Present on Thursday, April 11)
  26.  
  1. The Grandeur of Rome: Pliny The Elder
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  2. Panegyric Addressed to the Emperor Trajan: Pliny The Younger
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  3. The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor: Pliny The Younger
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  4. Egypt under the Roman Empire: Strabo, Oxyrhynchos Papyri
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  5. Roman Educational Practices: Various
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  6. On the Virtue of Antoninus Pius: Marcus Aurelius
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  7. The Reign of Marcus Aurelius: Eutropius
    (Present on Thursday, April 18)
  8.  
  9. Imperial Weakness Invites Barbarian Aggression: Zosimus
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  10. The Persecution under Decius: Eusebius
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  11. Aurelian’s Conquest of Palmyra: Vopiscus
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  12. How Didius Julianus Bought the Empire at Auction: Herodian
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  13. The Lives of Soldiers and Sailors: Various
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  14. The Luxury of the Rich in Rome: Ammianus Marcellinus
    (Present on Thursday, May 2)
  15.  
  16. The Conversion of Constantine: Eusebius
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)
  17. Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324 CE: Sozomen
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)
  18. Letter to Arsacius: Julian
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)
  19. Alaric’s Sack of Rome, 410 CE: Procopius Of Caesarea
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)
  20. The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE: Rutilius Namatianus
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)
  21. The Battle of Chalôns, 451 CE: Jordanes
    (Present on Thursday, May 9)