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(3/11/08) Postponed Quiz 3.
(2/5/08) Postponed Quiz 2 and Midterm 1.
From the Musei Capitolini: fragment of a
monumental
stature of Constantine II (photo Copyright 2006 by JMP).
All uses of the above image are utterly forbidden and banned forever.
You
could, however, go there in summer and take your own pictures.
CLCV 381: Roman Life
4:00-5:15
T/Th
[Note:
CLCV 381H, the Honors
section of Roman
Life, meets with the regular section and has a similar schedule.
Some
assignments and due dates are different, though: see the Honors
Syllabus for the
special requirements of 381H.]
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:
Shelton, As the Romans Did (2nd ed. Oxford, 1997)
Hooper, Roman Realities (Wayne State, 1979)
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 to Roman Life students will
be his on-line edition of Roman articles 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
Another
great
resource at Lacus Curtius: a slew of
articles from Platner and Ashby's Topological
Dictionary of Ancient Rome.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/home*.html
At
the Ancient Library
the
interested student can find a number of useful resiurces, particularly
and a complete searchable edition of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Another
on-line edition of Smith's
Antiquities
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
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:
| quizzes
(Jan. 22, Feb. 7, March 18, April 15) |
15% |
| midterms
(Feb. 14, Mar. 27) |
25% each |
| review (follow link above to description; due Thurs. Feb. 28) |
5% |
| short
research paper (follow link above to description; due Tues. April 15) |
5% |
| final
exam (last class: Thurs. April 24 OR official final time: Thurs. May 1, 3:30-5:30) |
25% |
| 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 both papers. |
| No incompletes issued except for pressing reasons and by prior arrangement with the instructor. |
| "A noun's a thing, a verb's the thing it does. The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz."--Steve Kowit |
| 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. |
| CLASS DATES | READING ASSIGNMENT | OTHER |
| Week
1 Jan. 8, 10 |
Shelton Intro, I; Hooper Ch. 1-2 | |
| Week
2 Jan. 15, 17 |
Shelton II-III; Hooper Ch. 3 | |
| Week
3 Jan. 22, 24 |
Shelton IV-V; Hooper Ch. 4 | Tues. Jan. 22:
Quiz 1 (lectures & readings weeks 1-2) |
| Week
4 Jan. 29, 31 |
Shelton VI; Hooper Ch. 5 | |
| Week
5 Feb. 5, 7 |
Shelton VII-IX; Hooper Ch. 6 | Thurs.
Feb. 7: Quiz
2 (lectures/readings through Feb. 5) |
| Week
6 Feb. 12, 14 |
Shelton X; Hooper Ch. 7 | Thurs.
Feb. 14: Midterm 1 (lectures/readings Jan. 9-Feb. 12) |
| Week
7 Feb. 19, 21 |
Hooper
Chs. 4-8; McManus' pages of clothing for men and women |
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| Week
8 Feb. 26, 28 |
Shelton XI; Shelton XII | Thurs. Feb. 28: Review due |
| Mar. 1-9 |
Spring
Break |
(no
classes) |
| Week
9 Mar. 11, 13 |
Hooper Chs. 10-11 | |
| Week
10 Mar. 18, 20 |
Hooper Ch. 12-13 | Tues.
March 18: Quiz 3 (lectures/readings weeks 6-9) |
| Week
11 Mar. 25, 27 |
Thurs.
Mar. 27: Midterm 2 (lectures/readings weeks through March 25) |
|
| Week
12 April 1, 3 |
Shelton XIII; Hooper Ch. 14-15 | |
| Week
13 April 8, 10 |
Shelton XIV; Hooper Ch. 16 | |
| Week
14 April 15, 17 |
Shelton XV | Tues.
April 15: Paper
due Also: Quiz 4 (lectures/readings weeks 11-13) |
| Week
15 April 22, 24 |
Hooper
Ch. 17-20 |
Optional
Early Final
: Thurs. April 24, 4:00-5:15 |
| Finals
Week April 26-May 2 |
-------------------- | Final
Final: Thurs. May 1, 3:30-5:30 |