| Course Title: Myth, Memory, and History: Writing the Past in the Roman Republic |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: Livy and Sallust, the best known historians of the Roman Republic, viewed history writing as a moral enterprise, presenting events from the past as exemplary tales to inform and enlighten the lives of their readers. Their narratives thus are highly rhetorical, combining myth, memory, and history to reconstruct the past. Close reading of selections from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita and/or Sallust's monographs--the Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Jugurthinum--will lead to discussions about how Romans viewed their past and how they wrote about it. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Bruce Arnold | 413-538-2872 | barnold@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | CIRU - Ciruti | 217 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two courses in Latin at the 200-level or any 300-level Latin course. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ANCST0001 | ANCST: Ancient Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Ancient Studies major and/or minor. |
| ANCST0001 | ANCST: Ancient Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Ancient Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 3 | Available: 15 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Satllust's Bellum Catilinae Author: Ramsey (editor), J.T. Copyright: 2007 Edition: 2nd Volume: ISBN: 0195320859 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 28.53 |
| Title: Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration Author: Frerichs (editor), Karl Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780865163416 Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci |
Required | 35.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: A less expensive, used version of the Sallust text can be purchased through book sellers found at Amazon. |