CC 302/347 INTRO TO ANCIENT ROME Paper Topics & Bibliography Instructor: Andrew Zissos Department of Classics, Waggener Hall 111 University of Texas at Austin Phone: 512-471-5742 Email: zissos@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:00 or by appointment Course Index Syllabus Lecture Outlines

The research paper (or book report) is required only of upper division students, and counts for 30% of the course grade. It is due on May 5. It shouldbe at least 800 words or approximately four pages long, double-spaced. Use a standard font (e.g. Times Roman) in the 12-point size.

I expect some use of secondary sources. Feel free to make use of electronic material (on the Web), but acknowledge your sources. Please DO NOT plagiarize, since I will fail you if I detect it -- and I'm pretty good at detecting it.

ESSAY TOPICS

You should feel free to suggest your own topics if you have particular interests. Just be sure to clear them with me before you start working on them.

1. Why is Sulla known as a champion of the aristocracy? Discuss his legislation in particular.
   
2. Was the grain dole a necessary feature of Roman civilization, or merely a tool for demagogues?
   
3. How did the production of public games change from the Republic to the Empire? What accounts for those changes? Try to talk specifically about sponsorship and ideology.
   
4. Was the gladiatorial show mere "entertainment" or did it have some more significant function in Roman society?
   
5. How accurate do you think Juvenal's picture (Satire III) of urban life is?
   
6. Assess the relative merits of city life versus country life in the first centuries BCE and CE.
   
7. What was the significance of Julius Caesar's reform of the calendar?
   
8. What kinds of occupations did working class Roman women (free/freed and slave women) have in Rome, and what kinds of limitations did Roman society impose upon their professional lives?
   
9. Pick an upper class Roman women (e.g. Livia, Agrippina the Younger) and discuss how she overcame the traditional limitations and restrictions on women holding power in Roman society.
   
10. Discuss the legal measures enacted by Augustus in order to bolster "family values". How successful were they?
    
11. Choose any major Roman social class (senatorial, equestrian, working class citizens, freedman or slave) and discuss how its status was affected by the transition from the Republic to the Principate.
    
12. In what respects was the poet Ovid a better representative of the Augustan age than "official" poets like Horace and Virgil?
    
13. The Figure of Trimalchio in. Contrast the moral codes and beliefs about the meaning of life of Trimalchio (in Petronius' Satyricon) with those of a more traditional Roman. What are the traits of Trimalchio that would have made him offensive to the conventional Roman upper classes?
    
14. Discuss the major women in Petronius' Satyricon, commenting on how Petronius' women relate as slaves, wives, or daughters to Roman cultural norms.
    
15. Is Apuleius' Metamorphoses a serious testimony to religious experience or merely an amusing collection of stories?
    
16. Take any modern historical novel on Rome and briefly review it in terms of accuracy and credibility. [Suggested authors: Robert Graves, I Claudius; Colleen McCollough, Caesar's Women etc.; Steven Saylor, A Murder on the Appian Way etc.]
    
17. Take any play of Plautus and discuss the "Roman" elements it manifests both on the level of form and content. How does this play compare with others by the same playwright?
    
18. What was Augustus' attitude toward the imperial cult?
    
19. Why did Christianity eventually become the principal religion of the Roman empire rather than one of the other foreign cults, such as Mithraism, worship of Isis, etc.?

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Cities and City Life

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Economy, agriculture, trade and commerce

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Education

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Ethnicity

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Family & Marriage

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Games and Entertainment

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Slavery

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