Roman Civilization

Read Monday Night to Prepare for Wednesday Lecture

The Forum
- ARC - 123 - 141 [Services, Public & Private]
- RCv1 - 140 (380-384) [Government of Provinces]; 162 (445-463) [Municipal Life];
- RCv2 - 64 - 67 (233-246) [Municipal Political & Economic Life]
Secondary Readings
- Alan K. Bowman, Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier (Routledge, 1994). Chapter 6: Social and Economic Life on the Roman Frontier (65-81)
- Flory, Marleen B. "Livia and the History of Public Honorific Statues for Women in Rome" TAPhA 123(1993) 287-308 -+-
- Herbert, Kevin "The Silk Road: The Link between the Classical World and Ancient China" CB 73.2(1997) 119-124 -+-

Read Wednesday Night to Prepare for Friday Discussion

Romans on the problems of public life
- Horace - Epode 2 - The problems of public and business life
  - a Horace bibliography
  - a Maecenas bio
- Pliny on
  - his daily life - Book 1.9
  - his political career - Book 7.33
  - The difficulties in governing a provence:
    - 8.24; 10.110 and 10.111
  - His uncle (Pliny the Elder's) difficulties on Vesuvius
  - How a good wife can help a politician in difficult times
  - On being a governor
- Quintus Cicero (or a clever forger's) advice on how to get elected
  - RCiv, v. I, #155
- Marcus Cicero on
  - how to govern a province: RCiv, v.1, #140
  - how not to govern a province: RCiv, v.1, #144
  - how he governed his province: RCiv, v.1, #145
Secondary Readings
- Laurence, Ray "Rumor and Commumication in Roman Politics" G&R 41.1 (1994) 62 -+-
- Cluett, Ronald G. "Roman Women and Triumviral Politics, 43-37 B.C." EMC 17.1 (1998) 67-84 -+-
- Sherwin-White, A.N. "Violence in Roman Politics" JRS 46 (1956) 1-9 -+-
- Tsirkin, Ju.B. "Romanization of Spain: socio-political aspect" Gerion 11 (1993) 271-312 -+-
- Burckhardt, L.A. "The Political Elite of the Roman Republic: Comments on Recent Discussion of the Concepts Nobilitas and Homo Novus" Historia 39 (1990) 77-99 -+-

Read Friday Night to Prepare for Monday Lecture

Earning a Living - Rich Guys
- ARC - 142-156 [The Commercial City]
- RCv1 - 165 (472-474) [Occupations]; 167 (484-486) [Equites]; 169 (487-489) [Publicans]; 187 (534-537)
- RCv2 - 12-14 (41-50) [Senate & Senators; Equites]; 42 (151-154) [Juvenal on Wealth & Misery]; ; 70 &endash;72 (255-259) [Public & Private Philanthropy];
Secondary Readings:
- Consuls with a delay - Richard J. Evans
- Cato's Punic Perfides - B. D. Hoyos
- The Call for Cybele - P. Y. Forsythe
- Dio Cassius on Scipio's Return from Spain in 205 BC - M.James Mosocovich
- The Donation of M'. Acilius Glabrio, cos. 191: A Re-interpretation - G.J. Szemler, E.W. Kase, M.P. Angelos (Loyola University of Chicago)
- Censure of the Censors: Livy in a 'comic' mode - M. D. Thomas
- Greek embassies and the city of Rome - Andrew Erskine
- On the annexation of provinces to the Roman Empire - Philip Freeman