| 1 |
Introduction: Rome's City-state Empire |
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| 2 |
The Constitution of the Roman Republic |
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| 3 |
Impact of Empire: The Elite and the Peasant-soldier |
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| 4 |
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus |
Short paper option 1 due |
| 5 |
The Gracchi as Watershed |
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| 6 |
Marius the 'New Man': Sallust's Jugurthine War |
Short paper option 2 due |
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Marius, the Army, and the Politics of Land |
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| 8 |
The Social War and the Unification of Italy |
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| 9 |
Civil War I: Marius and Sulla |
Short paper option 3 due |
| 10 |
The Dictatorship of Sulla |
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| 11 |
Pompey and the Special Command |
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| 12 |
Cicero Saves the Republic: The Conspiracy of Catiline |
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| 13 |
The Three-headed Monster: Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar |
Short paper option 4 due |
| 14 |
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul |
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| 15 |
The Urban Plebs and Publius Clodius |
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| 16 |
Pompey the Great |
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| 17 |
Civil War II: Crossing the Rubicon |
Topic proposal and outline for research paper due |
| 18 |
The Roman Revolution |
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| 19 |
Opposing Caesar: Cato & Marcellus |
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| 20 |
Plutarch's Caesar |
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| 21 |
The Ides of March |
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| 22 |
The Villain of the Piece: Marc Antony |
Research paper due |
| 23 |
Civil War III: Antony and Octavian |
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| 24 |
The Emergence of the Augustan Principate |
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| 25 |
Fall of the Republic: Revolution, Crisis, Transformation |
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| 26 |
Conclusion |
Revised research paper due |
