WEEK 1
Mon Sept 3
Course introduction -
Boatwright, Peoples.., ch 1
Wed Sept 5
Historical Background of Rome’s conquest and Expansion
R. Mac Mullen, “The Unromanized in Rome”, in S.J. D. Cohen and E.S. Frerichs (eds.), Diasporas in Antiquity, Atlanta 1993, 47-64
WEEK 2
Mon Sept 12
Ancient and Modern Definitions of Ethnicity, Race, Identity and Diversity
National Geographic, April 2018 issue
(online)
E. Gruen, Did Identity depend on Ethnicity? A Preliminary Probe, Phonix 17 (2013), 1-22 (jstor)
Wed Sept 14
Research skills session: Primary vs Secondary sources
WEEK 3
Mon Sept 17
The Etruscans
M. B. Bittarello, “The construction of Etruscan ‘otherness’ in Latin literature”, Greece & Rome 56, 2009, 211-233.
Wed Sept 19
Other Italics
P. van Dommelen, N. Terrenato. “Local cultures and the expanding Roman Republic,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 63, 2007, 7-12.
WEEK 4
Mon Sept 24
The Gauls,
Boatwritght, Peoples …, ch. 2
G. Woolf, The Roman cultural revolution in Gaul, in S. Keay-N.Terrenato, Italy and the West, Comparative issues in Romanization, Oxford 2009, 163-186.
Selected passages from Caesar, The Gallic Wars and Tacitus, Agricola and Germania.
Wed Sept 26
The Germans and Other Northern Peoples
Boatwritght, Peoples …, ch. 2
Selected passages from Caesar, The Gallic Wars and Tacitus, Agricola and Germania.
WEEK 5
Mon Oct 1
The Greeks
Boatwright, Peoples…, ch. 3
Selected passages from Polybius, Plutarch and Aelius Aristides
Wed Oct 3
Persians and the Hellenistic Orient
E.S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, Berkley, 1986
Selected passages from Herodotus, Livy, Plutarch
WEEK 6
Oct 8
Review
Oct 10
Midterm
WEEK 7
Mon Oct 15
Egyptians
Boatwright, Peoples…, ch. 4
P. Davies, “Aegyptiaka: Adventus and Romanitas”, in E. Gruen, ed., Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Los Angeles 2011, 371-387.
Wed Oct 17
Research skills sessions: identification and assessment of the sources
WEEK 8
Mon Oct 22
Cleopatra
D.E. Kleiner, Cleopatra and Rome, Cambridge MA 2005 (selected passages)
D. E. McCoskey, Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy. Ancients and Moderns, Oxford 2012.
Wed Oct 24
Africa and Ethiopians
Selected readings from Herodotous, Ps. Scylax, Diodorus.
WEEK 9
Mon Oct 29
Phoenicians and Berbers in North Africa
D. Hunter, Provincial Identity in the Roman World: Thugga (Dougga), in Vexillum, 2, 2012, http://www.vexillumjournal.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hunter-Provincial-Identity-in-a-Roman-World-Thugga-Dougga.pdf
E. Fentress, “Romanizing the Berbers”, Past and Present 190, 2006, 1-33.
Wed Oct 31
The necropolis of Sabratha
B. Shaw “Cult and Belief in Punic in Roman Africa” (September 2007). Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Paper No. 090705. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1426962
WEEK 10
Mon Nov 5
The Jews
Boatwright, Peoples…, Ch. 5
Selected passages from Philo, Josephus, Juvenal
Wed Nov 7
Library session Notes and bibliography
WEEK 11
Mon Nov 12
The Christians
Boatwright, Peoples…, Ch. 6
J. Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, Oxford 2004
D.K. Buell, Why this New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity, New York 2005
Selected reading from Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Tacitus, Eusebius and the Acta
Wed Nov 14
Research paper lab: work in progress
Students must be ready to share the outline of their paper and to report at least a methodological approach.
WEEK 12
Mon Nov 19
Movie session: screening of selected scenes from Cabiria, Scipio Africanus, Quo Vadis, Cleopatra, Gladiator, 300 hundreds
Wed Nov 21
Student presentation
WEEK 13
Mon Nov 26
Students presentation
Wed Nov 28
Students presentation
WEEK 14
Mon Dec 3
Students presentation
Wed Dec 5
Wrap up session and final discussion
FINAL RESEARCH PAPER DUE
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