Ancient Mediterranean
Greece Ancient Mediterranean : Greece
  CLAS105 • Ancient Mediterranean: Rome

B R I E F   S Y L L A B U S





 UNIT
 
 ERA
  ideologicaleconomicmilitarypolitical
  • THEME
  romans ETHNIC GROUP
  ASSIGNMENT
 
01 MONARCHY
  753-509 BCE
• myth & history
• civilization & identity
  romans etruscans Romans & Etruscans
Romans ch.1
Livy i, ii.9-13, v.1, 14-6, 21-3, 33
CR01
02 REPUBLIC
  509-390 BCE
• coercion & conquest
• patricians & plebians
  latins Latins
Romans ch.2
Livy ii.18-22; iii.44-59; XII Tables
CR02
03 REPUBLIC
  390-264 BCE
• family & civic values
• colonization
  samnites greeks Samnites & Greeks
Romans ch.3
Livy iii.26-9, iv.37, 44, 52
CR03
04 REPUBLIC
  264-201 BCE
 
• slave society
• the theater
  phoenicians Phoenicians
Romans ch.4
Plautus Towelheads
CR04
05 REPUBLIC
  201-91 BCE
political political
• patrons & clients
• the arena & the circus
  numidians Numidians
Romans ch.5
Livy v.27; Q. Cicero Electioneering
CR05
06 REPUBLIC
  91-60 BCE
• parents & children
• cultural contamination
  macedonianssyriansbithynianspergamenes Hellenistic Kings
Romans ch.6
Juvenal 3
CR06
07 JULIUS CÆSAR
  60-44 BCE
• men & women
• forensic oratory
  celts Celts/Gauls
Romans ch.7
Livy v.34-50; Juvenal 6
CR07
08 AUGUSTUS
  44 BCE-14 CE
economic economic
• freedmen
• biography
  persians Persians
Romans ch.8
Res gestae; Plautus Iran Man
CR08
09 PRINCIPATE
  14-68 CE

• tolerance & persecution, I
• eating & drinking
  egyptians Egyptians
Romans ch.9
Apuleius Golden Ass; Juvenal 15
CR09
10 PRINCIPATE
  68-138 CE
ideological ideological
• tolerance & persecution, II
  judeans Judeans
Romans ch.10
Philo Embassy to Caius; Josephus
CR10
11 PRINCIPATE
  138-193 CE
 
• provincial life
• the bath
  germansdacians Germans & Dacians
Romans ch.11
Tacitus Germany; Juvenal 16
CR11
12 PRINCIPATE
  193-284 CE
military military
• tolerance & persecution, III
• the triumph
  Christians
Romans ch.12
Tacitus Agricola; Perpetua
CR12
13 DOMINATE
  284-337 CE
• empire divided
• secondary states
  ethiopiansindians Ethiopians & Indians
Romans ch.13
Heliodorus Ethiopica
CR13
14 DOMINATE
  337-565 CE
 
• decline & fall
  hunsgermans Huns & Goths
Romans ch.14
Life of Aesop
CR14
REVIEW DC POINTS