Week 1: W: 1/4; F: 1/6

Wednesday

• Seminar:
• Homework:
  • Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
  • Reading Questions:

Friday

• Seminar: Sallust's Moral Vision
• Homework :
  • Gruen, 1-46
  • Sallust's "Catiline": Date and Purpose, L. A. MacKay, Phoenix > Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1962), pp. 181-194
  • Morals, Politics, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Barbara Levick, Greece & Rome > 2nd Ser., Vol. 29, No. 1 (Apr., 1982), pp. 53-62
  • Presentations on our suspects: For your suspect, please prepare a brief (5-7 minutes = 2-3 pages) biographical sketch. Use encyclopaedias and internet sources.
    • Caesar
    • Catiline
    • Cato
    • Cicero
    • Clodius
    • Crassus
    • Pompey

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Week 2: W: 1/11; F: 1/13

Wednesday

• Seminar: The Suspects and the Crime
• Homework:
  • Gruen, 47-82
  • Suetonius, Julius Caesar
  • Plutarch, Julius Caesar
  • Catiline, Crassus, and Caesar, E. T. Salmon, The American Journal of Philology > Vol. 56, No. 4 (1935), pp. 302-316
  • Continue updating your chronologies and begin work on your relationship charts.

Friday

• Seminar:
• Homework:

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Week 3: W: 1/18; F: 1/20

Monday

• MLK Workshops - don't forget!

Wednesday

• Seminar: Caesar
• Homework
  • The Catilinarian Conspiracy in Its Context: A Re-Study of the Evidence, E. G. Hardy, The Journal of Roman Studies > Vol. 7 (1917), pp. 153-228

Friday

• Seminar: The First Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Homework
  • Gruen, 83-120
  • Notes on the "First Catilinarian Conspiracy, Erich S. Gruen, Classical Philology, Vol. 64, No. 1. (Jan., 1969), pp. 20-24.
  • The Rise of Julius Caesar, Lily Ross Taylor, Greece & Rome > 2nd Ser., Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar., 1957), pp. 10-18
  • Politics in the Trials of Manilius and Cornelius, Allen M. Ward, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association > Vol. 101 (1970), pp. 545-556
  • The Role of Torquatus the Younger in the Ambitus Prosecution of Sulla in 66 B.C., and Cicero De Finibus 2.62, Michael C. Alexander
    Classical Philology > Vol. 94, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 65-69
  • Please continue to update your chronologies and work on your relationship charts.
  • Please continue to read your biographies.

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Week 4: W: 1/25; F: 1/27

Wednesday

• Seminar: The First Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Homework
  • Three Passages from Asconius, P. A. Brunt, The Classical Review > New Ser., Vol. 7, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1957), pp. 193-195
  • The Consular Elections of 66 B. C., G. V. Sumner, Phoenix > Vol. 19, No. 3 (Autumn, 1965), pp. 226-231
  • Cicero, pro Sulla 68 and Catiline's Candidacy in 66 BC, John T. Ramsey, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology > Vol. 86 (1982), pp. 121-131
  • Cicero, pro Sulla

Friday

• Seminar: The First Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Homework
  • R. Seager, "The First Catilinarian Conspiracy," Historia 13 (1964) 338-47 (in Ladd)
  • KH Waters, "Cicero, Sallust and Catiline," Historia 19 (1970) 195-215 (in Ladd)
  • C. E. Stevens, "The 'Plotting' of B. C. 66/65," Latomus 22 (1963) 397-435.

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Week 5: W: 2/1; F: 2/3

Wednesday

• Seminar:
• Homework
  • in toga candida
  • on the agrarian law

Friday

• Seminar:
• Homework:
  • pro Rabirio (perduellio)
  • 'Boni Atque Improbi', W. K. Lacey
    Greece & Rome > 2nd Ser., Vol. 17, No. 1 (Apr., 1970), pp. 3-16
  • "Catiline and the "Concordia Ordinum", E. D. Eagle
    Phoenix > Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1949), pp. 15-30
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Week 6: W: 2/8; F: 2/10

Wednesday

• Seminar:
• Homework

Friday

• Seminar:
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Week 7: W: 2/15; F: 2/17

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

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Week 8: February Break!

Week 9: W: 3/1; F: 3/3

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

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Week 10: W: 3/8; F: 3/10

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

• Seminar:
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Week 11: W: 3/15; F: 3/17

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

• Seminar:
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Week 12: W: 3/22; R: 3/23; F: 3/24

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

• Seminar:
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Week 13: W: 3/29; F: 3/31

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• Seminar:
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Friday

• Seminar:
• Homework

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Week 14: W: 4/5; F: 4/7

Wednesday

• Seminar:
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Friday

• Seminar:
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