# Readings

## Required Text

Livy. The Early History of Rome. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. New York: Penguin, 1960, 1971.

Caesar, Julius. The Civil War. Translated by Jane F. Gardner. New York: Penguin, 1967.

Cicero. On Government. Translated by Michael Grant. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Dio, Cassius. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Vintage Classics, 1981, 1990.

Ovid. The Love Poems. Translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

–––. The Metamorphoses. Translated by Horace Gregory. New York: Mentor, 1960.

Editions of Horace and Virgil available through the Perseus Digital Library.

BBC Television. I, Claudius. British Broadcasting Company, 1976. (Video, dvd)

## Readings by Class Session

SES # | TOPICS | READINGS
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1 | Introduction: Augustus, Authorship, and Authority |
2 | Myths of Origin | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book I.
3 | Birth of a Nation: Gender and History | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book II.
4 | Repetition and Difference: The Patterns of History | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book III-IV.
5 | Roman Institutions | Livy. The Early History of Rome. Book V.
6 | Warfare Public and Private | Caesar. The Civil War.
7 | The Functioning of Political Propaganda | Caesar. The Civil War. (cont.)
8 | The Waning Days of the Republic | Cicero. Phillipics.
9 | The Tradition of Public and Political Oratory | Cicero. Brutus.
10 | Actium and its Aftermath | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 55. BBC. I, Claudius. Episodes 1-2.
11 | From Republic to Empire | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 56. BBC. I, Claudius. Episodes 3-4.
12 | Independent Research Project Presentations |
13 | Strategies of Accommodation | Horace. Satires. Book I. (Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.)
14 | Resignation and Withdrawal | Horace. Odes. (Book I. i, ii, vi, ix, xi, xii, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxxvii, xxxviii; Book II. i, ii, iii, x, xii, xiv, xviii, xx; Book III. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, xxix, xxx; Book IV. viii, xii, xv.) Ars Poetica. (Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.)
15 | Repetition and Reversal | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 57.
16 | The Politics of Pastoral | Virgil. Eclogues. (Text available on-line through the Perseus Project.)
17 | The Golden Age of Rome | Virgil. Eclogues. (cont.)
18 | The Wayward Hero | Virgil. Aeneid. Books I-IV.
19 | Epics of Empire | Virgil. Aeneid. Books V-VIII.
20 | Reconstituting the Nation | Virgil. Aeneid. Books IX-XII.
21 | Organizing Desires: Fathers of the Fatherland | Dio, Cassius. The Roman History. Book 59 Ovid. Amores.
22 | Love Casuistry: Rhetoric, Deceit, and Desire | Ovid. Ars Amatoria. –––. Remedia Amoris.
23 | Translations of Empire | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books I-IV.
24 | Rhetoric and Regret | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books V-VIII.
25 | Art and Emotion | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books IX-XII.
26 | The Empire Reconsidered | Ovid. Metamorphoses. Books XIII-XV.