1. Compare the treatment of life after death in the following works: Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Genesis, The Tractate Avot, Gospel of John, Gospel of Thomas, Romans, Golden Ass, Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, and Augustine's Confessions.


2. Discuss the concept of city and its origins in the Aeneid, Livy's The Early History of Rome, Genesis and the Life of St. Antony.


3. What role does curiosity play in the Metamorphoses, the Golden Ass, Genesis and the Confessions?


4. Describe and account for metamorphosis and conversion in the Metamorphoses, the Golden Ass, and the Confessions.


5. Discuss the nature and role of the family in the Aeneid, the Annals, the Germania, Exodus, the Life of St. Antony, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Confessions.


6. Discuss and explain the tension between self-interest and public good as it is played out in the works of Virgil, Athanasius, Livy, Seneca, Lucretius.


7. What are some of the reasons for the appeal of Christianity to Roman and provincial citizens of Late Antiquity?


8. In what ways does Augustine represent a synthesis of Classical and Christian thought?


9. Compare the Ara Pacis and the Arch of Constantine as representations of the Roman Empire and its relation to the past, present, and future.


10. Describe and account for the various roles ascribed to or taken by women in Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts.


11. Discuss the way in which the following works define what the characteristics of good leaders and/or good government are: the Aeneid, The Early History of Rome, the Res Gestae, the Annals, Exodus, the Gospel of Matthew, The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas.


12. Compare the conceptions of human happiness in four of the following: Lucretius, Seneca, Juvenal, Genesis, Exodus, the Gospel of Matthew, Paul's Letter to the Romans, the Golden Ass, the Life of St. Antony, Augustine's Confessions.

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