Roman Civilization

CMS 206 /History 206

 Read Monday Night to Prepare for Wednesday Lecture

• Earning a Living - Poor Guys
• RCv1 - 185 (526-528) [Professions for Foreigners];
  • RCv2 - 27 (107-112) [Internal Trade]; 30-31 (117-123) [Foreign Trade]; 34-36 (129-134) [Banking, Slave Trade, Apprenticeships]; ]; 51 &endash;52 (183) [Guilds & Associations]; 59 (215-219) [Professions &endash; Architecture]; 61 (223-229) [Professions &endash; Medecine]; 64 - 67 (233-246); ]; 88 (325-326) [Police]; 102 &endash; (362-368) [Non-elite Professions & Occupations]
  • Vergil, Eclogue 1
• Secondary Readings
  • The Nature of Latin Culture - Joseph Farrell
  • Three Men in a Vote: Proscription and the Power of the Text (Appian, BC 4.1.1-6.51) (April, 1997) JOHN HENDERSON
  • Lucan, his scholia and the victims of Marius - Elaine Fantham
  • Chasing Change in Roman Childhood - Mark Golden

• Earning a Living -

  • review readings for Monday and Wednesday classes
  • Horace, Satires 1.6
  • See notes for Discussion Group Week 5

• Secondary Readings
  • Military Defeat and Electoral Success in Republican Rome - W. Jeffrey Tatum
  • Greek Gifts and Roman Suspicion - Andrew Erskine

• Making Laws
  •  RCiv, v.1, #32 (The Twelve Tables); #158 (Corruption in the Courts)
  • RCiv, v. 2, #6 (Lese Majesty); #153-160 (Law under the empire)
  • A Roman Murder
• Secondary Readings
  • Leges sine moribus - Susan Treggiari
  • The Idea of Roman Jurisprudence - Edward Gibbon
  • Compulsion in Roman Law - Jaques du Plessis
  • The Dissemination of Roman Law in the Middle Ages - Charles Casassa
  • The Catagorization of Woman in Roman Law - Zola Plackman
  • The Roman law against prostitution - Andrew Riggsby

   

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