Required Text Livy. The Early History of Rome. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. New York: Penguin, 1960, 1971.
Caesar, Julius. The Civil War. Translated by Jane F. Gardner. New York: Penguin, 1967.
Cicero. On Government. Translated by Michael Grant. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Dio, Cassius. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1981, 1990.
Ovid. The Love Poems. Translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
–––. The Metamorphoses. Translated by Horace Gregory. New York: Mentor, 1960.
Editions of Horace and Virgil available through the Perseus Digital Library.
BBC Television. I, Claudius. British Broadcasting Company, 1976. (Video, dvd)
Readings by Class Session
| 1 | Introduction: Augustus, Authorship, and Authority | | | 2 | Myths of Origin | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book I. | | 3 | Birth of a Nation: Gender and History | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book II. | | 4 | Repetition and Difference: The Patterns of History | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book III-IV. | | 5 | Roman Institutions | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book V. | | 6 | Warfare Public and Private | Caesar. The Civil War. | | 7 | The Functioning of Political Propaganda | Caesar. The Civil War. (cont.) | | 8 | The Waning Days of the Republic | Cicero. Phillipics. | | 9 | The Tradition of Public and Political Oratory | Cicero. Brutus. | | 10 | Actium and its Aftermath | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 55.
BBC. I, Claudius. Episodes 1-2. | | 11 | From Republic to Empire | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 56.
BBC. I, Claudius. Episodes 3-4. | | 12 | Independent Research Project Presentations | | | 13 | Strategies of Accommodation | Horace. Satires. Book I.
(Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.) | | 14 | Resignation and Withdrawal | Horace. Odes. (Book I. i, ii, vi, ix, xi, xii, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxxvii, xxxviii; Book II. i, ii, iii, x, xii, xiv, xviii, xx; Book III. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, xxix, xxx; Book IV. viii, xii, xv.)
Ars Poetica.
(Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.) | | 15 | Repetition and Reversal | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 57. | | 16 | The Politics of Pastoral | Virgil. Eclogues.
(Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.) | | 17 | The Golden Age of Rome | Virgil. Eclogues. (cont.) | | 18 | The Wayward Hero | Virgil. Aeneid. Books I-IV. | | 19 | Epics of Empire | Virgil. Aeneid. Books V-VIII. | | 20 | Reconstituting the Nation | Virgil. Aeneid. Books IX-XII. | | 21 | Organizing Desires: Fathers of the Fatherland | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 59
Ovid. Amores. | | 22 | Love Casuistry: Rhetoric, Deceit, and Desire | Ovid. Ars Amatoria.
–––. Remedia Amoris. | | 23 | Translations of Empire | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books I-IV. | | 24 | Rhetoric and Regret | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books V-VIII. | | 25 | Art and Emotion | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books IX-XII. | | 26 | The Empire Reconsidered | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books XIII-XV. |
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