Assignments for History 698: Rome From the Gracchi To Nero

The following is a class schedule for the semester. The journal articles may be accessed by clicking on the week heading. The books you will need to purchase. I have not ordered them through the book store since they may all be obtained either on Kindle or used online more cheaply that they can be offered through the bookstore. Book titles are available HERE. A review of the assigned literature is due each week beginning with week 2.

Week 1 — Background

Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero,. Chapter 1 (henceforth refered to as "G. to N.")

Marsh, Principate, Chapter 1-2

Everitt, Cicero, Ch. 1

The XII Tables

Background Lectures (see home page)

Week 2 — The Gracchi

G. to N., Chapter 2

Henry C. Boren, “The Urban Side of the Gracchan Economic Crisis,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Jul., 1958), pp. 890-902

J. S. Richardson, “The Ownership of Roman Land: Tiberius Gracchus and the Italians,” The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 70 (1980), pp. 1-11.

Appian, The Civil Wars, Book I, 1-27

Plutarch, , Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, Lives Vol. 4

Velleius Paterculus. History Book 2, 1-7.

Week 3 — Gaius Marius

G. to N., Chapter 3

Sallust, The Jugurthine War

Plutarch, Caius Marius, Lives Vol 3 (Volume numbers cited for Lives is for the Dryden translation on Library of Liberty).

Velleius Paterculus, History, Book 2, 11-16

Week 4 — The Social War and Sulla

G. to N., Chapter 4

Appian, The Civil Wars, Book 1, 5-12

Plutarch, Sulla  Lives Vol 3

Velleius Paterculus, History, Book 2, 13-28

Week 5 — Pompey

G. to N., Chapter 5-6

Marsh, Principate, Chapter 3-4

Everitt, Cicero, Ch. 4

Plutarch, Pompey  Lives Vol 3 (Up to Cicero's departure from Rome, Penelope text, up to the end of chapter 46)

Plutarch, Crassus,  Lives Vol. 3

Velleius Paterculus, History, Book 2, 29-40.

Week 6 — Cicero

Everitt, Cicero, Ch. 2-4, 5

Plutarch, Cicero  Lives Vol 4

Sallust, The War With Cataline

Cassius Dio, History Book 37, 24-42.

Week 7 -- Politics in the Late Republic

Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Cæsar

Everitt, Cicero, Ch. 6-7

A. N. Sherwin-White, “Violence in Roman Politics,” The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 46, Parts 1 and 2 (1956), pp. 1-9

Erich S. Gruen, “P. Clodius: Instrument or Independent Agent?” Phoenix, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer, 1966), 120-130.

Plutarch, Cato the Younger  Lives Vol 4

Week 8 — Julius Caesar

G. to N. Chapter 7

Marsh, Principate, Chapter 5

G. R. Stanton, “Why Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 52, H. 1 (2003), pp. 67-94.

Plutarch, Caesar  Lives Vol 4

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars, Gaius Julius Caesar

Velleius Paterculus, History, Book 2, 41-58

Week 9 — Octavian and Antony

G. to N. Chapter 8-9

Marsh, Principate, Chapter 6-7

Plutarch, Antony  Lives Vol 4

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars D. Octavius Caesar Augustus

Velleius Paterculus, History, Book 2, 59-88

Week 10 — Augustus and The Empire that He Made

G. to N. Chapter 11-12

Marsh, Principate, Chapter 8-9

Augustus Caesar, Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Tacitus, Annals, I, 1-10

Velleius Paterculus, History Book 2, 89-93, 126-131

Week 11 — Tiberius and Caligula

G. to N. Chapter 13

Cassius Dio, History Books 57.1-15; 58.1-15; 59

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars Tiberius Nero Caesar

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars Gaius Caesar Caligula

Philo, Legatis ad Gaium

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities,  Book 18. ch. 8 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-18.html)

Week 12 — Claudius and Nero

G. to N. Chapter 14-16

Tacitus, Annals,  Books 10-15

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars Nero Claudius Caesar