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Some good audiobooks, well-written and informative, if you want to delve deeper:
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome
The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 – 5
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Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
The History of Rome, Volume 3: Books 21-25 (Livy on the Punic Wars)
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 1: The Histories (Polybius on what he calls the Hannabalic War)
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 2: The Histories
The History of Rome, Book 1: Roman Origins Before the Monarchy
The History of Rome, Book 2: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
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My recent article Full Text From Ὁμόνοια to Concordia
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
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Primary source for Marius and his war against Jugurtha The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
The standard undergraduate biography of Sulla,
https://www.amazon.com/Sulla-Last-Republican-Arthur-Keaveney/dp/0415336619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500517131&sr=8-1&keywords=Sulla
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Cicero’s Speeches against Antony The Philippics – LibriVox
Dear Class,
Here is the Google Books version of the Marrou text for this week. It is unfortunately incomplete, but read as much as you can of it.
Use this link, and scroll down to page 229
A History of Education in Antiquity
Also, here is Plutarch’s life of Cicero
And Demosthenes
In your imitation of Plutarch’s biographical style for this week, be guided by his characteristic statement at the beginning of his Life of Alexander:
For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles when thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face and the expression of the eyes, wherein the character shows itself, but make very little account of the other parts of the body, so I must be permitted to devote myself rather to the signs of the soul in men, and by means of these to portray the life of each, leaving to others the description of their great contests.
Dear Class,
First, here’s an interesting article, very germane to our most recent class.
The Rhetoric of an Excellent Essay
Now, for this week’s assignment:
Regarding the Bonner text mentioned on the syllabus, I will try to put that up later this week.
Take care