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UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT
HISTORY
THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM
TIBERIUS TO HADRIAN
CX 244/344
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/modules/tibtohad/
Mondays 10-11
Room A0.23
Fridays 10-11
Room L4 (spring, weeks 1-2, 4, 7, 9-10; summer weeks 1-2)
Room H0.60 (spring weeks 3, 5, 8; summer week 3)
Reading Classes: Mondays 9-10
Room A0.05
CONVENOR: Prof. ALISON COOLEY
MODULE BOOKLET
Spring/summer terms, 2016
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Syllabus – Lectures & Seminars for all
Spring Term 2016
Week 1 Mon 11/01: Being Greek in a Roman World 1
Fri 15/01: Being Greek in a Roman World 2
Week 2 Mon 18/01: Images of the elite
Fri 22/01: Civic life in the East: a world of festivals? [AG]
Week 3 Mon 25/01: Hadrian and the Greek East
Fri 29/01: Hadrian and the City of Rome - Seminar presentations
Week 4 Mon 01/02: Integration of provincials into Roman society
Fri 05/02: Ruling the empire
Week 5 Mon 08/02: Pliny and Bithynia
Fri 12/02: The Best Roman Governor - Seminar debate
Week 6 Reading Week - No lectures
Week 7 Mon 22/02: Running the economy
Fri 26/02: Life in Egypt under Roman rule
Week 8 Mon 29/02: Popular resistance to Rome
Fri 04/03: Opposition to Nero - Seminar presentations
Week 9 Mon 07/03: Jewish revolts and resistance 1
Fri 11/03: Jewish revolts and resistance 2
Week 10 Mon 14/03: Civic life in the West: Spain
Fri 18/03: Emperor worship
Summer Term 2016
Week 1 Mon 25/04: Robert Graves' I Claudius and Claudius the God
Fri 29/04: Robert Graves' Claudius
Week 2 Mon 02/05: No lecture (Bank holiday)
Fri 06/05: Balloon debate
Week 3 Mon 09/05: Revision Class
Fri 13/03: Revision Class
Seminars – Spring term, weeks 3, 5, 8:
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Gp A, Fri at 10 in H0.60
Gp B, Fri at 9 in H3.56
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Gp C, Fri at 11 in H0.56
Language classes for Q800 students
Mondays 9-10 in A0.05.
Please read the texts in advance and ALWAYS bring a copy of your text to class.
Recommended editions – NB texts available as PDF from module online bibliography:
 SCPP [set text uploaded]
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/students/modules/tibtohad/q800syllabus/
 Juvenal Satire 3
Braund, S., Juvenal, Satires: book 1 (Cambridge 1996) [PA 6446.A5]
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{Online download: Juvenal (1996) Juvenal Satires 3 - Text and Essay. In: Juvenal Satires:
Book 1. 1st ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.55-64, 230-236}
 Statius Silvae
Coleman, K. Silvae IV (Oxford 1988 - available as Bristol Classical Press reprint,
1998) [PA 6697.A3]
{Online download: Statius, P. (1998) Text and translation. In: Silvae IV / Statius;
edited with an English translation, commentary and bibliography by K.M. Coleman.
1st ed., London: Bristol Classical Press, pp.2-21}
Spring term 2016
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Week 1: Mon 11th Jan - SCPP 1-70
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Week 2: Mon 18th Jan - SCPP 71-176
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Week 3: Mon 25th Jan - Juvenal Satire 3 vv.1-57
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Week 4: Mon 1st Feb - Juvenal Satire 3 vv.58-125
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Week 5: Mon 8th Feb - Juvenal Satire 3 vv.126-189
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Week 7: Mon 22nd Feb - Juvenal Satire 3 vv.190-267
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Week 8: Mon 29th Feb - Juvenal Satire 3 vv.268-322
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Week 9: Mon 7th Mar - Statius Silvae 4.1
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Week 10: Mon 14th Mar - Statius Silvae 4.2
Summer term 2016
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Week 1: Mon 25th Apr - Statius Silvae 4.3
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Week 2: No class: Bank Holiday
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Week 3: Mon 9th May - Revision
Submission of Essays
Essays/dissertations
should
be
submitted
online
via
the
Tabula
site
(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/students/esubmission/) AND a hard copy of the
essay should also be signed into the log in the departmental office and a cover sheet filled in
before 12 noon on or before the deadline. Please indicate your year of study on the cover
sheet. You should ensure that hard copy and e-copy are identical submissions. A copy of the
e-submission receipt should also be submitted at the same time. Anonymity of marking is an
adopted principle of the University for both assessed essays and examinations, so DO NOT
put your name on your work. By University regulation, late essays will attract a penalty of 5
marks for each day they are late, excluding weekends (from 12.01 on the day they are due
to 12.00 the next day is counted as 1 day).
Deadline
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2nd assessed essay: 12 noon, Tuesday 8 March 2016.
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ASSESSED ESSAYS
Write an essay of approximately 2,500 words on ONE of the following subjects, to be
handed in to the departmental office (Room 222) and by Tabula by 12 noon
on Tuesday 8 March 2016 (Week 9). Make sure that your essay is only identified by your
university number from your library card, and that a cover sheet is attached. Please
ensure that your pages are numbered, and that you state a word count. Use 12-point
font, and double-space text. See dept handbook for further advice about writing and
presenting essays. Refer to the departmental essay-writing checklist for help.
The reading lists below are not exhaustive: please consult module bibliography & feel
free to explore further on your own. Don't forget to use primary sources extensively
and to consider the questions from a historiographical as well as historical
perspective. Students studying the module in Latin should choose an essay title
from the Latin-text specific list, and should demonstrate in their essays close
analysis of the texts in Latin. All other students should choose from the ‘nonLatinist’ list of titles.
Essay 2 – Titles for non-Latinists
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How aware would inhabitants in the provinces of Rome during this period
have been of the fact that they were part of an empire?
Does Pliny's correspondence with Trajan in Book 10 of the Letters illustrate
the ideal relationship between governor and emperor?
Are Suetonius' biographies of the Caesars of any historical value?
Were emperors essentially unpredictable in their dealings with the provinces?
Who ruled the Roman empire during this period?
Can we trace changing attitudes to the emperor as head of state during the
period from AD 14-136?
Titles for Latinists (Q800 / English-Latin)
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Are the speeches in Tacitus' Agricola simply a literary device?
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Is Tacitus' Agricola purely a biography of his father-in-law?
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Is the historical value of the SCPP fatally undermined by its subjectivity?
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Is the picture which Umbricius paints of life in Rome a credible one in
Juvenal’s Satire 3?
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Essay Bibliographies
Consult LACTOR sourcebooks, Tiberius to Nero and The Flavians to identify suitable primary
sources. The Cambridge Ancient History vols 10 and 11 will also be of much use.
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How aware would inhabitants in the provinces of Rome during this
period have been of the fact that they were part of an empire?
See the following sections of the module bibliography:
Provinces
Jewish Revolts
City Life in the Latin West
Roman Greece
Greek Literature under Rome
Greek East
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Does Pliny's correspondence with Trajan in Book 10 of the Letters
illustrate the ideal relationship between governor and emperor?
Nutton, V. (1978) ‘The beneficial ideology’ in P. Garnsey & C. Whittaker, eds
Imperialism in the Ancient World (Cambridge) [D 60.C2]
@Dominik, W.J., Garthwaite, J., Roche, P.A. (2009) Writing politics in
Imperial Rome [e-book] - Steven H. Rutledge, ‘Reading the prince: textual
politics in Tacitus and Pliny’
See also the following sections of the module bibliography:
 Pliny the Younger
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Are Suetonius' biographies of the Caesars of any historical value?
Elsner, J. & Masters, J. (1994) Reflections of Nero - chapter by T. Barton
@Hägg, T. (2012) The Art of biography in antiquity [PA3043.H33]
@Dominik, W.J., Garthwaite, J., Roche, P.A. (2009) Writing politics in
Imperial Rome [e-book] Reading politics in Suetonius / David Konstan
See also the following sections of the module bibliography:
 Suetonius + Oxford Online Bibliography on Suetonius by David
Wardle
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Were emperors essentially unpredictable in their dealings with the
provinces?
Millar, F. (1977) The Emperor in the Roman World
See also the following sections of the module bibliography:
 Imperial Biographies
 Provinces
 Jewish Revolts
 Roman Greece
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Who ruled the Roman empire during this period?
Millar, F. (1977) The Emperor in the Roman World
Talbert, R. (1984) The Senate of Imperial Rome, 460-87 [DG 83.T2]
Talbert, R. in CAH X2, 324-43
See also the following sections of the module bibliography:
 Imperial Biographies
 Provinces
 Jewish Revolts
 City Life in the Latin West
 Greek East
Titles for Latinists
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Are the speeches in Tacitus' Agricola simply a literary device?
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Is Tacitus' Agricola purely a biography of his father-in-law?
For the essays on Tacitus, please consult the module bibliography: Tacitus +
the Oxford Online Bibliography by Dylan Sailor
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Is the historical value of the SCPP fatally undermined by its subjectivity?
For the essay on the SCPP, please consult the bibliography for Seminar 1,
‘The Trial of Piso’
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Is the picture which Umbricius paints of life in Rome a credible one in
Juvenal’s Satire 3?
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@Baines, V. (2003) ‘Umbricius’ bellum civile: Juvenal Satire 3’, Greece and
Rome 50.2: 220-37
@Baldwin, B. (1972) ‘Three characters in Juvenal’ The Classical World 66.2:
101-04
Braund, S. (1996) Juvenal Satires I (CUP) [PA 6446.A5 + Learning Grid]
Braund, S. (1992) Roman Verse Satire (OUP) [PA 6056.B7]
@Braund, S. and Osgood, J. (2012) A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Courtney, E. (1980) A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal [PA 6448.C6]
@Freudenburg, K. (2005) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire [ebook]
@Hardie, A. (1998) ‘ Juvenal, the Phaedrus, and the truth about Rome’, CQ
48.1: 234-51
@Keane, C. (2015) Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions
@Plaza, M. (2006) The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire (OUP)
[e-book]
Rudd, N. and Courtney, E. (1977) Juvenal Satires I, III, X (BCP) [PA
6446.A5 - external store]
@Witke, E.C. (1962) ‘Juvenal III: an Eclogue for the Urban Poor’, Hermes
90.2: 244-48
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Edwards, C. & Woolf, G. (eds) (2003) Rome the Cosmopolis ch.1 (CUP)
[DG 63.R6]
@Laurence, R. (1997) ‘Writing the Roman metropolis’, in H. Parkins, ed.
Roman Urbanism [e-book]
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