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Note: Reading
Assignments in "Pomeroy" refer to
The Murder of Regilla: a case of
domestic violence in antiquity by Sarah B Pomeroy
(Harvard University Press, 2009). |
Jan. 14
Introductions
Rome in the 2nd Century A.D
Timelines:
http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Chronology.htm
http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/special/timeline_01.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his101/web/t-roman.htm
Timeline of Roman History |
Jan. 16 Pomeroy Book
Reviews and Introduction to Aspasia Annia Regilla
List of Reviews of Pomeroy's The Murder of Regilla
Read Sienkewicz' Review (distributed electronically via email): This
review was published in
Magill's Literary Annual 2008 (Salem Press), 495-499.
Evaluating book reviews
The Book Review
Writing a good book review:
Literacy
Education OnLine /
UNC /
LAVC /
Purdue /
RSU
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspasia_Annia_Regilla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspasia_Annia_Regilla |
Jan. 21 Reviews of
Pomeroy
Team Book Reports:
Treggiari Review (Kyle D.
and Karina); Vout Review (Sam and Ariel); Holford-Stevens Review (Rebecca
and Shawn); website reviews (Merissa)
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Jan. 23
Plutarch on Marital Relations in Imperial Rome
Team Book Reports:
All the Brief Reviews (Donavon and Gabbie)
Read: Pomeroy, Introduction
Quaestiones Romanae 108:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Roman_Questions*/E.html#108
Quaestiones Romanae 6 and 7:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Roman_Questions*/A.html#6 |
Jan. 28
Girlhood in Rome
Lawless Review (Kyle W.)
Plutarch's Consolation:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Consolatio_ad_uxorem*.html
Note: at 4:15 we will break for a lecture by a Classics
Candidate: Joseph O'Neill, MC'01 |
Jan. 30 Herodes Atticus
Team Report on Herodes
Atticus (Carina and Gabbie)
Rife, Joseph L. “The
Burial of Herodes Atticus: Elite Identity, Urban Society, and Public Memory
in Roman Greece,” The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Vol. 128, (2008) , pp.
92-127
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40651725
Read
Philostratus'
Biography of Herodes Atticus
https://archive.org/stream/philostratuseuna00phil
(pp.139ff.; paragraphs 545-566; accessible in a number of formats) |
Feb. 4 A Roman Matron in Imperial
Athens
Team Reports: Pregnancy and Childbirth (Ariel and Rebecca),
Everyday Life (the home, dress,
etc.) (Merissa and Carina)
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Feb. 6 Important People in the Antonine World
Team Reports: Marcus Aurelius (Shawn
and Sam),
Fronto (Kyle D. and Merissa)
Fronto's Letters:
http://www.archive.org/stream/correspondencem00auregoog#page/n216/mode/2up/search/herodes
Note: at 4:15 we will break for a lecture by a Classics Candidate: Dr.
Robert Simmons |
Feb. 11 Life in the Antonine Age
Team Reports: Burial Practices (Kyle D. and Gabbie),
Childhood in the
Antonine Age (especially for females) Ariel
Pomeroy, Chapter 1 |
Feb. 13 Life in the Antonine Age Cont.
Team Report: Lucian (Donavon and Sam)
Read: Pomeroy, Chapter 2
The Role of Women /
Women's Daily Life in Ancient Rome /
Being Female in
Ancient Rome /
Worlds of Roman Women |
Feb. 18 Life in the
Antonine Age Cont.
Team Report: Apuleius (Shawn and Kyle W)
Read: Pomeroy, Chapter 3
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/index13.html
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/women_civicdonors.html
"Religious Thought in the Age of Hadrian" by Francis R. Walton in
Numen , Vol. 4, Fasc. 3 (Sep., 1957) , pp. 165-170:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3269342" |
Feb. 20 Important Places in Regilla's World
Pausanias
(Donavon)
Marathon, Olympia,
Corinth, Delphi
"Herodes Atticus: An Essay on Education in the Antonine Age" by A. J.
Papalas in History of Education Quarterly , Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer, 1981) , pp.
171-188:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/367689 |
Feb. 25 Important Places in Regilla's World
Panathenaic Stadium (Rebecca and Kyle W.)
Roman Athens (Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library, Hadrian's Arch and Temple of
Zeus
Panathenaic Stadium in Athens
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Via Appia
Gleason, Maud W. "Making Space for Bicultural
Identity: Herodes Atticus Commemorates Regilla" (Princeton/Stanford
Working Papers in Classics, Version 1.0,
July 2008) |
Feb. 27 Death in Athens and Murder Trial in Rome
Read: Pomeroy, Chapter 4
Ellen E. Perry.
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens
, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2001) , pp. 461-492
Book Review of Pomeroy is due. |
March 4 Regilla's Final Resting Place
Read: Pomeroy, Chapter 5
Tomb of Regilla
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March 6
The Trial of Herodes Atticus
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Note: The Post-Trial Paper is due before you leave for spring break. |
