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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

The History of Rome, Book 3: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Rome Enters the Greek East

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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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The Spartacus War

Rubicon (Unabridged)

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

The Commentaries

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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Syllabus: clas-4040-syllabus-fall-2017

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Walden, Universities of Ancient Greece: https://archive.org/details/universitiesofan00walduoft

This week’s readings are in the same PDF as last weeks, just begin at page 46 ff.

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Also, I think I mislead you into thinking perhaps that you had to read the Gorgias dialogue for this week.  It is actually to be read for next week.

I apologize for any confusion.

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

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And Demosthenes

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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:

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Regarding the Bonner text mentioned on the syllabus, I will try to put that up later this week.

Take care

**Dear Class**

I’m so sorry not to have put this out sooner.  If you can, read something of this for tomorrow.  If not by tomorrow, read it whenever you get a chance.  It’s a very valuable text, and not easy to come by.

**Copy and Paste**

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B21Gr3XmDEPZNnFVek02ZC1wbnM/view?usp=sharing