Required Texts:

Apuleius, trans. Lindsay, The Golden Ass (Indiana University Press)

Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony the Great (Eastern)

Augustine, Confessions (Oxford University Press)

Beard and Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic (in bookstore and on reserve)

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha/ New Revised Standard Version: College Edition (Oxford University Press)

Brown, World of Late Antiquity (W. W. Norton)

Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph (Oxford University Press)

Garnsey, Peter and Richard Saller, Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (University of California Press)

Josephus, The Jewish War (Penguin USA)

Livy, Early History of Rome (Penguin USA)

Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura) (Indiana University Press)

Ovid, Metamorphoses (Indiana University Press)

Readings on the Roman World (Pamphlet in Bookstore)

Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca (W. W. Norton)

Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania (Penguin USA)

Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin USA)

Virgil, The Aeneid (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publications)

Recommended Texts:

Marius, A Writer’s Companion, 3rd ed. (McGraw)

Hacker, A Writer's Reference, 3rd ed. (Bedford)

Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago)

All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; a limited number of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve: Oxford Classical Dictionary; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature; Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I; Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.

CONFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS The Registrar makes initial assignments to conferences in this course which continue through the year. Students who subsequently find it necessary to change conferences must petition the Humanities staff (forms for this purpose may be obtained from the Registrar or from Karen Bondaruk, CC 308). Turn completed forms into Nathalia King, Hum 110 Chair, in CC 305. No conference changes will be permitted after the second week of the term.

PAPERS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, AND EXAMINATIONS Three course-wide papers will be assigned, due at the times designated on the schedule of readings and lectures. A mid-term examination will be given on Friday, March 17th from 9-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A final examination for the spring term will be given Tuesday, May 9th, 8 a.m. &emdash; 12 noon. Rescheduling of the mid-term or final exam will be allowed only for medical reasons.

Electronic access An archive of course materials for Humanities 110 is available on the course's web page. It includes the syllabus, paper topics, schedule of videos, and many of the lecture handouts from this year and previous years, as well as some new pages designed to help students tap Internet resources on course-related subjects. The web page may be reached through Reed's main page via Academic Life and Course Materials, or directly at this address: <http://academic.reed.edu/Humanities/Hum110>. Many of the course materials are also archived in Microsoft Word format on the Courses Server (via the Chooser in the zone Academic Servers).

Week 1

Jan. 24 Beard and Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic (available in the bookstore and on reserve)

Lecture: Raymond Kierstead, "The Virtuous Republic"

Jan. 26 Livy, Early History of Rome, pp. 33-101

Lecture: Walter Englert, "Livy and the Re-Creation of Rome"

Jan. 28 Livy, Early History of Rome, pp. 105-180, 374-402

Lecture: Nathalia King, "What is a Body Politic?"

Week 2

Jan. 31 Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus (in Readings); Suetonius, "Augustus" from The Twelve Caesars (in Readings)

Lecture: Carl Anderson, "The Amaranthine Republic"

Feb. 2 Garnsey and Saller, The Roman Empire, Chapters 1-3

Lecture: Raymond Kierstead, "Roman Emperorship"

Feb. 4 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 1-4

Lecture: Nathalia King, "Dido and Aeneas, or Relations of History and Romance"

Week 3

Feb. 7 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 5-8

Lecture: Elizabeth Drumm, "Ekphrasis in the Aeneid"

Feb. 9 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 9-12

Lecture: Tom Gillcrist, "Why the Aeneid Ends as it Does"

Feb. 11 Holliday, "Time, History, and Ritual on the Ara Pacis Augustae" (in Readings); Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, intro. and chapter 1-3

Lecture: William Diebold, "Contexts for the Ara Pacis"

Week 4

Feb. 14 Garnsey and Saller, The Roman Empire, Chapters 6-9, Conclusion

Lecture: Laura Arnold, "My So-Called Roman Life"

Feb. 16 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 1-3

Lecture: Walter Englert, "Ovid’s Epic of Transformation"

Feb. 18 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 4-6, 15

Lecture: Nigel Nicholson, "Silver Latin"

First Paper Due - Saturday, Feb. 19th, 5 p.m.

Week 5

Feb. 21 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 31-60, 90-99, 104-128

Lecture: William Diebold, "The Representation of the Emperor"

Feb. 23 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 157-255

Lecture: Nigel Nicholson, "'At that repulsive gathering his had been merely a female part' (Ann. XI.36): Gender Boundaries in Ancient Rome"

Feb. 25 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 275-324, 335-397

Lecture: Carl Anderson, "Irony and Suicide"

Week 6

Feb. 28 Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura), Books 1 and 3

Lecture: Walter Englert, "Poetry and Philosophy in Lucretius"

March 1 Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura), Books 5 and 6

Lecture: William Peck, "Lucretius and the Causes of Things"

March 3 Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: On Providence, On the Tranquillity of the Mind, and Letters, 47, 65, 70

Lecture: William Peck, "The Internal Forum"

Week 7

March 6 Tacitus, Germania in The Agricola and the Germania; Tacitus, Histories 5. 1-10 (in Readings)

NO LECTURE

March 8 Genesis: 1-23; Kugel and Greer, "The Rise of Scripture" (in Readings)

Lecture: Michael Foat, "Genesis"

March 10 Genesis 23-50; Nancy Jay, "The Logic of Sacrifice" and "Sacrifice and Descent" (in Readings)

Lecture: Gail Sherman, "Sacrifices and Stories"

Second Paper Due - Saturday, March 11, 5 p.m.

Week 8

March 13 Exodus 1-7:19; 11-24; 32-34

Lecture: Steve Wasserstrom, "Hebrew Temple and Priesthood"

March 15 Isaiah 40-55; Daniel; Kugel, "The Messiness of History" (in Readings)

Lecture: Steve Wasserstrom, "Hebrew Prophecy: Universality and Particularity"

March 17 MID-TERM EXAM - 9-9:50 a.m., Vollum Lecture Hall.

SPRING BREAK - March 18-26

Week 9

March 27 Gospel of Matthew, Josephus, The Jewish War, chapter 7

Lecture: Michael Foat, "Knowing Jesus"

March 29 Josephus, The Jewish War, the Preface (p. 27-31) and Chapters 17-23

Lecture: Laura Arnold, "The Enemy Within"

March 31 The Tractate Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers); Cohen, "The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism"; "The Rule of the Community" (all in Readings)

Lecture Steve Wasserstrom, "The Rabbis on Halakha and History"

Week 10

April 3 Paul, Romans; Acts 9-19; Frend, "Paul and the First Expansion 30-65" (in Readings)

Lecture: Nathalia King, "Commission under Grace"

April 5 Gospel of John

Lecture: Ellen Stauder, "Between Jew and Hellene: the Emerging Christian Community of the Gospel of John"

April 7 Revelation

Lecture: Michael Foat, "Lifting the Thick Heavy Curtain"

Week 11

April 10 Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, chapters 4-5, "The Survival and Fall of the Classical city in Late Roman Africa" and "Sex and the Body of the Other"(in Readings)

Lecture: Laura Arnold, "To Carthage and Beyond: Africa in the Roman Imagination"

April 12 Apuleius, Golden Ass

Lecture: Gail Sherman, "Narrative and Repetition"

April 14 Apuleius, Golden Ass

Lecture: Walter Englert, "The Danger of Curiosity, or Lucius' Conversion"

Week 12

April 17 The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas (in Readings); Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 1-48; Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, chapters 6 and 8

Lecture: Nathalia King, "The Martyrdom of St. Perpetua"

April 19 Athanasius, Life of Anthony; Anthony (Antony), Letter #6 (in Readings); Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 49-112

Lecture: Raymond Kierstead, "Holy Bodies"

April 21 Augustine, Confessions

Lecture: Elizabeth Duquette, "Augustine and the Pleasure of Conversion"

Third Paper Due - Saturday, April 22nd, 5 p.m.

Week 13

April 24 Augustine, Confessions

Lecture: David Sacks, "On Knowing and Willing"

April 26 Augustine, Confessions

Lecture: Elizabeth Drumm, "Memory is the Stomach of the Mind"

April 28 Augustine, Confessions

Lecture: Michael Foat, "Contemplation"

 

Final Exam Tuesday, May 9th, 8 a.m. &emdash; 12 noon, Vollum Lecture Hall