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Cane 2008 - Readings & Resources

Margaret Imber

Monday (7/7) - Orientation

Please have reviewed Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae. If you have time to review Cicero’s Catilinarians, it couldn’t hurt. I’ve attached a list of primary and secondary sources on Catiline that you might find helpful after the syllabus.

Tuesday (7/8)– Please have read the Florentine Material

• Patricia J. Osmond, Catiline in Fiesole and Florence: The after-life of a Roman conspirator, International Journal of the Classical Tradition (vol 7.1: 2000), 3-38.
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• Selections from Florus*
  • link to Florus, Book IV, Chapter 1
    • J. S. Watson, ed., Sallust, Florus and Velleius Paterculus (G. Bell, London: 1884), p. 389-90.
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• Selections from Villani*
  • link to sec. 24-39
    • G. Cillani, Villani's Chronicle, Being Selections From the First Nine Books of the Chroniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani, tr. R. Selfe, ed. P. Wickstead (A. Constable & Co., London: 1906)
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• Selections from Latini’s Tresor*
  • Brunetto Latini, The Book of the Treasure, tr. P. Barrette and S. Baldwin (Garland: New York & London: 1993) - Book 1: 1-2, 36-38; Book 2: Prologue, 72-74
  • link to pdf file

*Note: the actual length of the readings is brief, although the page count is long. I included introductions to the modern editions/translations so you could read some background material if you chose to.

Wednesday (7/9) - Please have read the Elizabethan Material

• Michael J. C. Eucheruo, The Conscience of Politics and Ben Jonson’s Catiline, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 6, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, (Spring, 1966), pp. 341-356.
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• Ben Jonson, Catiline*
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Thursday (7/10) – Please have read the Ibsen Material

• Andrew Anderson, Ibsen and the Classic World, The Classical Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, (Jan., 1916), pp. 216-225
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• Henrik Ibsen, Catiline
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Friday (7/11) – Please have read the Saylor material

• Stephen Saylor, Catilina’s Riddle (Available at Amazon)
• Ellen O' Gorman, Detective Fiction and Historical Narrative, Greece & Rome, Second Series, Vol. 46, No. 1, (Apr., 1999), pp. 19-26.
  • link to original text
  • link to pdf file

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Classical Sources on the Catilinarian Conspiracy

• Appian, Bellum Civile II (Lacus Curtius: White’s translation)
  
• Asconius 82 ff. (Latin text)
• Cicero (Perseus texts: )
  • Orationes in Catilinam I-IV (Perseus: Younge’s translation)
  • Oratio pro Caelio (Perseus: Younge’s translation)
  • Oratio pro Murena (Perseus: Younge’s translation)
  • Oratio pro Sulla (Perseus: Younge’s translation)
• Dio Cassius XXXVII (Lacus Curtius: Cary’s translation)
• Plutarch Julius Caesar 7 (Lacus Curtius: Perrin’s translation)
• Cicero 10-22 (Lacus Curtius: Perrin’s translation)
• Sulla 32 (Lacus Curtius: Perrin’s translation)
• Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, also called Bellum Catilinae (Lacus Curtius: White’s translation)
• Suetonius, Julius Caesar 9, 14 (Perseus, Thomson’s translation)

compiled at the “Bellum Catilinae” web site -

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Secondary Scholarship on the Catilinarian Conspiracy

• K. R. Bradley, Slaves and the Conspiracy of Catiline, Classical Philology, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 329-336.
  
  
• T. R. S. Broughton, Was Sallust Fair to Cicero?, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 67 (1936), pp. 34-46.
  
  
• J. Roger Dunkle, The Greek Tyrant and Roman Political Invective of the Late Republic, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 98 (1967), pp. 151-171.
  
  
• E. D. Eagle, Catiline and the "Concordia Ordinum, Phoenix, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1949), pp. 15-30.
  
  
• M. W. Frederiksen, Caesar, Cicero and the Problem of Debt, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 56, Parts 1 and 2 (1966), pp. 128-141.
  
  
• Erich S. Gruen, Notes on the "First Catilinarian Conspiracy, Classical Philology, Vol. 64, No. 1. (Jan., 1969), pp. 20-24.
  
  
• E. G. Hardy, The Catilinarian Conspiracy in Its Context: A Re-Study of the Evidence, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 7 (1917), pp. 153-228.
  
  
• Barbara Levick, Morals, Politics, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser., Vol. 29, No. 1 (Apr., 1982), pp. 53-62.
  
  
• L. A. MacKay, Sallust's "Catiline": Date and Purpose, Phoenix, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1962), pp. 181-194.
  
  
• R. Meiggs, Review: A Defence of Catiline, Lucio Sergio Catilina by Eugenio Manni, The Classical Review, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1940), pp. 162-163.
  
  
• E. T. Salmon, Catiline, Crassus, and Caesar,The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1935), pp. 302-316.
  
  
• R. Seager, "The First Catilinarian Conspiracy," Historia 13 (1964) 338-47.
  
  
• C. E. Stevens, "The 'Plotting' of B. C. 66/65," Latomus 22 (1963) 397-435.
  
  
• G. V. Sumner, The Last Journey of L. Sergivs Catilina, Classical Philology, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Oct., 1963), pp. 215-219.
  
  
• KH Waters, "Cicero, Sallust and Catiline," Historia 19 (1970) 195-215

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