CLAS201 Classics Seminar
Spring, 2014
     Department of Classics
Monmouth College

This seminar offers a survey of current topics and disciplinary models in the field of Classics for Classics majors and minors and serious students of the Classics.

 

REPORT TOPICS: Murder in the Antonine Age

The following are some possible topics for the team presentations.

Important People in the Antonine World:
These reports will focus on an overview of the individual and his general importance than his specific association with Regilla.
Herodes Atticus
Marcus Aurelius
Fronto
Plutarch
Pausanias
Galen
Lucian
Apuleius
Ptolemy


Important Aspects of the Antonine World:
Second Sophistic
Stoicism


Important Places in Regilla’s World:
These reports will focus on an overview of the site and its general importance rather than its specific association with Regilla.
Marathon
Olympia
Corinth
Delphi
Roman Athens (Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library, Hadrian's Arch and Temple of Zeus)
Panathenaic Stadium in Athens
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Via Appia

Lives of Roman Women:
These reports will focus on an overview of the live of Greco-Roman women in the Antonine Period rather than on the life of Regilla specifically.
Childhood
Marriage
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Everyday Life (the home, dress, etc.)
Public Lives
Burial Practices

This webpage was prepared by Professor Thomas J. Sienkewicz of Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at tjsienkewicz@monmouthcollege.edu.

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