Classics 71800/ History 70330: The Trajanic Moment in Roman Literature Syllabus, Part 2

March 18: CUNY on a “pause” from classes.

March 25

14. Pliny, Panegyricus, 1-35; 46-54; 66; 80-84 - Pliny, Panegyricus, selections - Shadi Bartsch, “The Art of Sincerity: Pliny’s Panegyricus”, chapter 5 in Actors in the Audience (Princeton UP, 1994), pp. 148-187. - Julian Bennett, “A New Ideology”, chapter 6 in Trajan: Optimus Princeps, second edition (Indiana UP, 2001), 63-73. - Paul Roche, “The Panegyricus and the Monuments of Rome”, in Paul Roche (ed.), Pliny’s Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World (Cambridge UP, 2011), pp. 45-66.

15. Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus - Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 1-17; 24; 27-41 - Alain M. Gowing, “Rome’s New Past”, chapter 4 in Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 102-131. - Christopher S. van den Berg, “The Dialogus and Its Contexts”, chapter 1 in The World of Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus: Aesthetics and Empire in Ancient Rome (Cambridge UP, 2014), pp. 17-51.

MIDTERM ASSIGNED

April 1: MIDTERM DUE. Otherwise class canceled.

April 7 (Tuesday follows a Wednesday schedule)

16. Tacitus and Pliny - Pliny, Epistles 1.6, 1.20, 4.13, 6.9. 6.16, 6.20, 7.20, 7.33, 8.7, 9.10, 9.14 - Ilaria Marchesi, “The Importance of being Secundus: Tacitus’ Voice in Pliny’s Letters,” chpt. 3 in The Art of Pliny’s Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence (Cambridge UP, 2008), pp. 97-143. - [OPTIONAL: chapter 4, “Storming Historiography: Pliny’s Voice in Tacitus’ Text,” pp. 144-206.]

17. Tacitus, Agricola - Martial, Book 10; Tacitus, Agricola - [review Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1, as per Buckley below] - Victoria Rimell, “I Will Survive (You): Martial and Tacitus on Regime Change,” chapter 2 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 63-85. - Emma Buckley, “Flavian Epic and Trajanic Historiography: Speaking into Silence,” chapter 3 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 86-107

18. Tacitus, Germania [Removed from the syllabus; see me for bibliography if you’re still interested]

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April 22

- J.P. Sullivan, “Martial’s Life and Times”, chapter 1 (excerpt on Books 10-12) in Martial, the Unexpected Classic: A Literary and Historical Study (Cambridge UP, 1991), pp. 44-55.

19. Martial and Frontinus - Martial, Book 10 (esp. 10.48 and 10.58); Frontinus, De Aquae Ductis 1-3, 64-76, and 87-93 - Alice König, “Reading Frontinus in Martial’s Epigrams,” chapter 10 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 233- 259. - [Re-read the relevant pages on the De Aquae Ductis in Turner 2007 and Malloch 2015 from March 4]

20. Martial and Pliny [KAT MOORE] - Martial 4.86, 7.26, 7.86, 10.12, 10.30, 11.15; Pliny, Epistles 2.9, 5.6, 8.6, 9.13. - Sigrid Mratschek, “Images of Domitius Apollinaris in Pliny and Martial: Intertextual Discourses as Aspects of Self-Definition and Differentiation,” chapter 9 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 208-232. - Ruth Morello, “Traditional Exempla and Nerva’s New Modernity: Making Fabricius Take the Cash,” chapter 13 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 302-329.

April 29

21. Martial and Juvenal - Martial Book 12 (esp. 12.18); Juvenal, Satires 1-5; Pliny, selected letters (as in Uden 2015 below) - James Uden, “Satire 1: Poetry, Accusation, and the Audience’s Role”, chapter 1 in The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015), pp. 24-50. - Gavin Kelly, “From Martial to Juvenal (Epigrams 12.18),” chapter 7 in König and Whitton 2018, pp. 160- 179.

22. Juvenal and Pliny - Kirk Freudenberg, “Juvenal,” chapter 3 in Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal (Cambridge UP, 2001), pp. 209-277; see esp. 234-242. - James Uden, “Romans and Greeks: New Views in the Graeca Urbs,” chapter 3 in The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015), pp. 86-116. - OPTIONAL: Tom Geue, “Forgetting the Juvenalian in Our Midst: Literary Amnesia in the Satires,” chapter 16 in König and Whitton, pp. 366-384.

23. Favorinus [Removed from the syllabus; see me for bibliography if you’re still interested]

May 6

24. Dio of Prusa (aka Dio Chrysostom), Kingship Orations - Dio, Kingship Orations 1-4 and 57 (emphasis on Or. 4). - John Moles, “The date and purpose of fourth kingship oration of Dio Chrysostom”, Classical Antiquity 2 (1983), 251-278. - Tim Whitmarsh, “Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman Emperor”, chapter 4 in Greek Literature in the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation (Oxford UP, 2001), pp. 181-216.

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25. Plutarch and Roman power - Plutarch Moralia: 776a-779c (That a philosopher should converse with emperors); 779d-782f (To an uneducated ruler); 783B-797F (Should an old man engage in politics?); 798A-825F (Precepts of government). See vol. 10 of the Loeb edition of the Moralia. - Philip Stadter, “Plutarch: Diplomat for Delphi?”, in J. Bons, T. Kessels, D. Schenkeveld, and L. de Blois (eds.), The Statesman in Plutarch’s Works, Volume 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp. 19-31. ------, “Plutarch and Trajanic Ideology,” in P.A. Stadter and L. van der Stockt (eds.), Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98-117 AD) (Leuven UP, 2002), pp. 227-241; reprinted as chapter 11 in Plutarch and His Roman Readers (Oxford 2015). ------, “The Justice of Trajan in Pliny Epistles 10 and Plutarch,” translation of “Plutarco e la formazione dell’ideologia traianea,” in P. Volpe Cacciatore and F. Ferrari (eds.), Plutarco e la cultura della sua età: Atti del X Convegno plutarcheo Fisciano-Paestum, 27-29 ottobre 2005 (Naples: M. D’Auria, 2007), 189- 204; reprinted as chapter 12 in Plutarch and His Roman Readers (Oxford 2015) as a.

May 13

26. Trajan’s Forum and Column [NAN COFFEY] - Go to www.trajans-column.org, or, www.stoa.org/trajan and try to “read” a history of the Dacian campaign via the column - Gerhard Koeppel, “The Column of Trajan: Narrative Technique and the Image of the Emperor,” in Philip Stadter and Luc Van der Stockt (eds.), Sage and emperor: Plutarch, Greek intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (Leuven University Press, 2002), 245-257. - Prudence Jones, “Juvenal, the Niphates, and Trajan’s column (Satire 6.407-412),” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000), 477-486.

27. Pliny in the provinces - Fergus Millar, “Trajan: Government by Correspondence,” in J. Gonzalez (ed.), Trajano Emperador de Roma (Madrid, 2000), pp. 363-388; reprinted in Hannah M. Cotton and Guy Rogers (eds.), Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire: Fergus Millar, Volume 2 (UNC Press, 2004), pp. 23-46. - Carlos Noreña, “The Social Economy of Pliny’s Correspondence with Trajan,” American Journal of Philology 128.2 (2007), 239-277.

28. Trajanism overseas - Lino Rossi, “A Synoptic Outlook of Adamklissi Metopes and Trajan’s Column Frieze: Factual and Fanciful Topics Revisited,” Athenaeum 85.2 (1997), 471-486

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29. Tacitus, Histories 30. Forum of Domitian / Forum of Trajan

Final project

Deadline for Spring 2020 credit, TBA (about three days before grades are due)

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