CLAS 401: Undergraduate Seminar

History and Memory in Classical Antiquity

Syllabus

Description of the weekly (or so) writing assignment (the ‘two page or one hour’ papers)

The Big Paper and Oral Report

Select Bibliography

Our reserve shelf in Odegaard

Schedule of presentations

Wednesday, Feb. 18: Beth (Livy/Hdt., myth/reality). Click here for Beth’s abstract.

Monday, Feb. 23: Brendan (end of 2^nd Punic War in Polybius and Livy). Click here for Brendan’s abstract.

Wednesday, Feb. 25: Jeff (“The Summi Viri are Dead!? Exemplary Evidence in Annals XV”). Click here for Jeff’s abstract.

Monday, Mar. 1: Catherine (‘corpses’ in Tacitus). Click here for Catherine’s abstract.

Wednesday, Mar. 3: Emily (Polybius on Timaeus and the writing of history). Click here for Emily’s abstract

Wednesday, Mar. 3: Christine (Thuc.’s Pericles vs. Livy’s Camillus). Click here for Christine’s abstract

Daily Assignments

• Wednesday, January 7
• Monday, January 12
• Wednesday, January 14
• Wednesday, January 21
• Monday, January 26
• Wednesday, January 28
• Monday, February 2
• Wednesday, February 4
• Monday, February 9
• Wednesday, February 11
• Wednesday, February 18
• Monday, February 23
• Wednesay, February 25
• Monday, March 1
• Wednesday, March 3
• Monday, Mar. 8 and Wed., Mar. 10

Online texts

(Please note that these are NOT meant to substitute for the ‘required texts’ indicated on the syllabus – you must have those; they are available for purchase at the Bookstore. All of these links are to the Perseus webpage – in addition to the texts and translations, note that you will find there full commentaries as well as grammatical and lexical tools.)

• Herodotus, Histories (Greek)
• Herodotus, Histories (English, A.D. Godley)

• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (English, R. Crawley)

• Polybius, Histories (Greek)
• Polybius, Histories (English, E.S. Shuckburgh)

• Livy, History of Rome (Latin)
• Livy, History of Rome (English, Rev. Canon Roberts)

• Tacitus, Annals (Latin)
• Tacitus, Annals (English, Church and Brodribb)