office: 506 main
office hours: 9:00-10:20 mw
office phone: 575-7710
email: dfredric@uark.edu

Texts:
J. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City (ARC)
Potter and Mattingly, Life, Death, and
Entertainment in the Roman Empire (LDE)
A. Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii
and Herculaneum (HAS)
Petronius, Satyricon, trans. S. Ruden
Virgil, Aeneid, trans. R. Fitzgerald

Purpose:
This course will introduce you to the culture of ancient rome. we will begin with an historical overview, and then zoom in on various aspects of Roman life (the city and its architecture, politics, economics, the family, etc.), focusing particularly upon the period between 100 BCE and 100 CE. This course will teach you how to evaluate various kinds of evidence to build up a complex picture of an apparently familiar, but actually quite different culture. Hopefully, the play of differences/sameness you encounter in ancient rome will encourage you to think more critically about our own culture, and how the classical past is (mis)represented in contemporary political, social, and artistic contexts.

Grading:
There will be short quizzes on most days, counting 100 pts total, and three exams, worth 100 pts each, for a total of 400. The exams will be a combination of brief identifications, short essays, and one long essay.

Academic Honesty:
I take this seriously, and urge you to read the relevant pages of the undergraduate catalog. If i find you have violated these policies, i willsanction your grade and/or refer your case to the judicial process.

Website:
the visual material used in class lectures will also be available on the web, to help you review for the exams. The address:

http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/cicero

Honors Section:
Students enrolled in the clst 1013H will complete an additional final project, worth 100 pts. The topic must be approved by me, and I encourage a website or interactive CD. Resources will be available to us from CAST, the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology.

Schedule of Assignments:

Historical Overview, the Urbs
Week 1 (jan 13/15): “Historical Overview” and ARC
chs. 1-2.
Week 2 (Jan 20/22): ARC, ch 3.
Week 3 (Jan 27/29): ARC, chs 4-5.

Politics and Economics
week 4 (Feb 3/5): ARC, chs 6-7
Cicero’s letters (on the web)
week 5 (feb 10/12): LDE, chs. 3 and 5.

Religion
week 6 (feb 17/19): ARC, chs. 13-14.
Tuesday, feb. 17: exam 1
week 7 (feb 24/26): LDE, ch 4
various festivals on the web

Entertainment
week 8 (mar 2/4): lde, ch 6
Hopkins, “Murderous Games” (on the web)
week 9 (mar9/11): lde, ch 7
plautus, “Casina,” xerox handout

Family and Sexuality
week 10 (mar 23/24): lde, ch 1-2.
week 11 (mar 30-apr 1): Clarke, “The Warren Cup,”
(xerox handout)
Thursday, April 1: exam 2

Pompeii
week 12 (apr 6/8): HAS, chs 1-2
week 13 (Apr 13/15): Satyricon

Aeneid
week 14 (APR 20/22): Aeneid
week 15 (apr 27/29) Aeneid
thursday, april 29: exam 3