Roman Historians @ BGSU


Last updated: Feb. 3, 2009	Classics Section Major/Minor Programs in Classics at BGSU Department of Romance and Classical Studies Bowling Green State University

Augustus
fragment of a colossus-statue
Vatican Museums

ROCS 470:

Historians of the Roman Empire

Place: 128 Shatzel

Time: 1:30, Tuesdays

3 credits

Constantine I
fragment of a colossus-statue
Capitoline Museums

Instructor:

James M. Pfundstein, Ph.D.
Shatzel 222
Office Hours: Tues. & Wed. 12:30-1:20 and by appointment.
Office phone: 419-372-8278
e-mail: jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu
web-page: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~jmpfund/JMP.html

Texts:

Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939)

Tacitus (Grant trans.), Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin)

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1 (Penguin, 1996)

Online resources:

The single most important resource for the study of Roman history on the web is Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius. Of special interest is his on-line edition of Roman articles from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities-- an encyclopedic work with heaps of information on how the Romans lived their lives.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/home*.html

At the Ancient Library the interested student can find a number of useful resources, particularly

a complete searchable edition of Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities,

Another on-line edition of Smith's Antiquitie s is at the Perseus Project. It can be tricky to find stuff in this edition, as the entries are keyed by Latin words, and not always the ones you'd expect. Still, you might get a lucky (and useful) hit here.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063

If you're on campus (or sign in via the remote access server), there are some good resources available through OhioLink. For instance, the Classics section of Oxford Reference Online:

    on-campus URL:
        http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s3

    off-campus URL (sign in first at the remote access server):
     http://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/

Also useful in the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html

Another great source, with scads of images that can be searched by keyword, is VRoma:
http://www.vroma.org/images/image_search.html

Barbara McManus has a number of useful pages at VRoma, including one on the clothing of Roman men

and another on the clothing of Roman women.

Another rich (and well organized) source of images is Kathryn Andrus-Walck's Roman Art & Architecture:
http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/roman.html

More images of Roman (and other ancient) art and archaeology are available at AICT:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html

Numerous images of Greek and Roman archaeological sites can be found at Leo Curran's site, Maecenas:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html

Grading:

**THE FINE PRINT**:
No makeups given due to absence without prior arrangement with the instructor.
No one can pass the course without passing the final examination and turning in the paper.
No incompletes issued except for pressing reasons and by prior arrangement with the instructor.
"Mouse is a syllable. A syllable does not eat cheese. Therefore a mouse does not eat cheese."--Seneca
The instructor reserves the right to recognize significant improvement (or decline) in student performance when awarding the final grade.
The maximum amount of extra credit which may count towards the final grade = 5% of the total course points.
The syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor; changes will be announced in class and posted on-line.

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