MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE


History 3056/5056                                         Spring, 2008
The Roman Empire                                       Mr. Bowling

Requirements:

    1. Attendance.
    2. Participation.
    3.   Readings.
    4.   Successful completion of two examinations.
    5.   A critical paper, c. 15 pp. (c. 25 pp. for graduate students), on a
         topic chosen in consultation with the instructor, a complete,
          typewritten draft of which is due on March 25th.

Books to be purchased:

Josiah Osgood, Caesar's Legcy: Civil War & the Emergence of the Roman
        Empire (Cambridge, 2006).

Anthony Everitt, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (New
        York, 2007).

Eve D'Ambra, Roman Women (Cambridge, 2006).

Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion (Cambridge, 2006).

Jill Harries, Law & Crime in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2007).

Neville Morley, Trade in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, 2007).

Christopher Kelly, Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Cambridge, Mass.,  2006).

Beate Dignas, Rome & Persia in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2007).

St. Augustine, The city of God Against the Pagans (Cambridge, 2007).

Virgil, The Aeneid, tr. Robert Fagles (New York, 2006).

 

Schedule:

Jan. 15              Introduction

Jan. 22              The Fall of the Roman Republic
                                Reading: Osgood

Feb. 5                In the Age of Caesar Augustus
                                Reading:  Everitt

Feb. 12              How the Other Half Lived
                                Reading: D'Ambra

Feb. 19              In Search of the Divine
                                Reading: Warruir

Feb. 26             Leges & Criminality
                                Reading:  Harries            

Mar. 4               M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I O N

Mar. 11              S P R I N G   B R E A K

Mar. 18             The Global World of Business
                                Reading: Morley

Mar. 25             The Governing System
                                Reading: Kelly

                                  C O M P L E T E,  T Y P E W R I T T E N

                                         D R A F T   O F   P A P E R   D U E

Apr. 1                Threats from the East
                                Reading: Dignas

Apr. 8 & 15       Thr Christian Critique of the Fall
                                Reading: Augustine

Apr. 22              The Classic of All Europe
                                Reading: Virgil