1. Roman Historiography
Republican

2. Syllabus
PURPOSE:
This course is about Latin, History and Historiography.
Our subject will be Sallust's Bellum Catilinae.
Our object, first and foremost, is to further your ability to read and translate Latin with careful attention given to grammar, syntax and style.
To provide necessary context for Sallust and the BC, we must also familiarize ourselves with the political history of the Late Republic.
Our final objective is to examine the art of classical historiography and to analyze Sallust's distinctive contribution to Roman Historiography.

3. Syllabus REQUIRED TEXTS:
Ramsey, Sallust's Bellum Catilinae  (Oxford University Press; 2007)  
our primary text
copious notes on grammar & syntax
current annotated bibliography
maps

4. Syllabus STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:
McGushin, Sallust: Bellum Catilinae (Duckworth Publishers; 2002)
vocabulary
copious historical commentary
notes on grammar & syntax
VOCABULARY

5. Syllabus
This course is not just about translating Sallust, it’s about Roman political history and historiography.
To that end the Ramsey edition is essential and the McGushin commentary invaluable. 
Please obtain copies of both.

6. Syllabus REQUIRED TEXTS:
Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (University of California Press; 1961)
Sather Lectures
a classic work on political life at the end of the Republic
discusses the evolution of Roman politics
easy prose style
explains many Roman political oddities
essential for anyone interested in Roman Republican politics
and/or enrolled in CL341

7. Syllabus REQUIRED TEXTS:
MacDonald, Cicero Orationes vol.x In Catilinam I-IV, Pro Murena, Pro Sulla, Pro Flacco (Harvard University Press;1976)
supplement our main text
Cicero's own take on the Catilinarian conspiracy
Catiline's conspiracy, one of the best documented events from the late Republic, gives us the rare opportunity to analyze not just one literary version of these events, but to think critically about the divergences between Sallust's and Cicero's accounts, and to try to make sense of "what really happened" during this chaotic period of Roman history.
possible paper topic

8. Syllabus GRADING: Participation 25% Exam (10/3) 25% Paper (12/6) 25%
Final Exam (12/12)  25%

9. Sallust, Bellum Catilinae

10. literary historical political
approaches
literary
historical
political
Literary- style, genre
Historical- both the time of event and publication
Political-

11. historiography
Definition- study of writing of history; history of historical writing
Ancient Historiography- facts or argument, forebearers reliability Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures. Although Herodotus' overall emphasis lay on the actions and characters of men, he also attributed an important role to divinity in the determination of historical events. Thucydides, on the other hand, largely eliminated divine causality in his account of the war between Athens and Sparta, establishing a rationalistic element which became defining of subsequent Western historical writings. He was also the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor Xenophon (ca. 431ﾐ355 BC) introduced autobiographical elements and character studies in his Anabasis.
What to pay attention to: style, phrasing, vocabulary, narrative, rhetoric, speeches Analysis (authorial voice) objectivity purpose

12. history What is it? purpose?
Events surrounding- sources literary but also epigraphical/numismatic
Monograph-single protagonist-

13. context
Is everything… so an understanding of history, but also of the society and its political structure is essential to fully appreciate BC. What came before, what happened during and between the time of the event and the works publication.

14. 30 minute Review of roman history
April 21, 753BC
Romulus
750 Greek colonies established in Italy
700 Etruscan civilization dominates
Numa Pompilius
Tullius Hostilius
Ancus Marcius
L. Tarquinius Priscus
600 Forum Romanum built
Servius Tullius
L. Tarquinius Superbus
578- cloaca maxima
550- Servian walls

15. 30 minute Review of roman history cont.
509BC Establishment of the Republic
508 Creation of the position of Pontifex Maximus
494 First Secession of the Plebs in Rome.
Creation of the tribunes of the plebs, two elected annually
471 Concilium Plebis created; office of tribune recognized
451 Decemviri establish code of 12 tables
449 Secession of the plebs
lex Valeria Horatia grants tribunician inviolability.
447 Creation of position for two quaestors, elected by the tribal assembly.
445 lex Canuleia: consuls replaced by military tribunes with consular powers; allows plebeians and patricians to marry;
421 The number quaestors is increased to four, opened to plebeians.
409 Three of the elected quaestors are plebeians.
510-rape of Lucretia
509- overthrow of Etruscan kings, IOM built on Capitoline
483-The temple of Castor is completed and dedicated.

16. 30 minute Review of roman history cont.
390 Gauls sack city of Rome, capitol saved. 7month siege; invaders are bought off.
367 Lex Liciniae Sextiae restores the Consulship, plebeians admitted to the office of consul.
366 Offices of Praetor and Aedile added to Cursus Honorum.
First Samnite War, Rome occupies Campania
328 Etrurian & Campania annexed
312 rural tribes in Rome number 27
304 Second Samnite War
Third Samnite War
central & southern Italy under Rome
295 Rome expands north to Po Valley

17. 30 minute Review of roman history cont.
war with Pyrrhus
First Punic War
264 All of Italy under Roman control
Second Punic War
First Macedonian War
Second Macedonian War
Third Punic War
First Sicilian Slave War

18. 30 minute Review of roman history cont.
133 Tiberius Gracchus tribune
Gaius Gracchus tribune
Jugurthine War
Marius consul
90-88 Social War
88 Sulla: First Mithridatic War
88 Sulla's march on Rome with his army
82 Sulla becomes dictator
71 Crassus crushes Spartacus
71 Pompey defeats Sertorius' rebellion in Spain
70 Consulship of Crassus and Pompey

19. 30 minute Review of roman history cont.
63 Pompey defeats Mithridates
60 First Triumvirate: Pompey, Crassus, & Julius Caesar
Caesar conquers Gaul
53 Crassus killed in (battle) of Carrhae
49 Caesar crosses the Rubicon
48 Pharsalus (battle); Pompey Killed In Egypt
Caesar's dictatorship
44 End of Civil War
43 Second Triumvirate: Marc Antony, Lepidus, & Octavian
42 Philippi (battle)
31 Actium (battle)
27 Octavian becomes Augustus

20. Roman History recap 8th c traditional founding
7th c Etruscan domination
6th c Republic established
5th c Struggle of the orders
4th c Italy expansion
3rd c Punic wars
2nd c Mediterranean expansion
1st c Internal struggles

21. Sallust 86 Born at Amiternum 85-56 Sallust’s lost years… 55 quaestor?
Sabine municipium
85-56 Sallust’s lost years…
Pythagorian cultist
Strange puerile sacrifices
Adulterous swine
Fausta (Milo’s wife)
and a host of other Roman matrons
55 quaestor?
52 tribune
50 expelled from Senate
Political purge?
novus homo
Social wars & Sulla
Silent 60’s

22. Sallust 49 Illyricum Setback at Curicta 47 praetor-elect
command of legion
Setback at Curicta
47 praetor-elect
mutiny mess up
46 Africa campaign
regained Senate seat
Cercina
Governor of Africa
45 accused of res repetundae
Municiple origin novus homo Sabine
85-56 Sallust’s lost years…
Social wars & Sulla
Silent 60’s

23. Sallust
44 retirement
horti Sallustiani
historian
35 death
May 13

24. works Bellum Catilinae Bellum Iugurthinum Historiae after 43 41-40
Incomplete
Epistulae ad Caesarem????
Hist books

25. Historiography Pre-Sallust Annalistic narratores rerum
not analy(s)tic
narratores rerum
brevity, truthfulness only virtues
boring??
L. Cornelius Sisenna 67BC
puerile quiddam
Cicero de oratore 2.51
Social wars/civil wars Leg.1.7
Cicero-Lucceius write a monograph

26. Sallustian Style brevitas vocabulary infinitives run amok
archaisms
neologisms
infinitives run amok
inconcinnitas
Quintilian’s verdict
Thucydides
Cato the Elder
Inconcinnitas-unusual, unexpected- word order, standard phrases, imbalance