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Greek and Roman Biography Greek and Roman Biography (190:612) Dr. Thomas J. Figueira Dept. of Classics, Ruth Adams Bldg. DC History, Van Dyck Hall, CAC LSH-312, LC: Phone: 848-445-4037 Hist. Off., Van Dyck 202, 848-932-8118 Classics Off. Hrs.: W 3:50-4-40 History Office Hrs.: 1:00-1:50 (VD 202) Course Website on SAKAI 932-7905 (Dept. messages/general inform.) 932-9797 (Dept. messages/general info.) Meetings: W 4 (5:00-7:40, RAB-003) E-mail: [email protected] The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the genre of ancient biographical writing, which is a sub-genre of historiography. Our understanding of Greek and Roman biography is shaped by the later development of genre when compared to other forms of historiography. That emergence has had the effect of leaving obscure the early stages of its evolution, especially in the late classical and Hellenistic periods. The most important surviving Greek and Latin biographical works are relatively late, deriving from the period of the Roman Empire. Here the figures of Suetonius and, first and foremost, Plutarch stand on eminences of the highest cultural importance for western civilization. The material covered in this course is aligned with the reading for Ancient History and Interdisciplinary track option of the MA and PhD. programs of the Department of Classics. Texts: Many of the main readings (in both Greek and Latin) for the course either can be downloaded from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae or from the Perseus online archive or can be acquired by purchase or by borrowing from Rutgers libraries (in the editions as noted on the course bibliography). A few texts that are difficult to procure will be scanned and uploaded on the course SAKAI website. For passages assigned in Greek/Latin, we shall naturally work exclusively from texts without concurrent translations (unlike Loebs), although the translations for some texts (for which sections will be read in Greek/Latin) will need to be near at hand for consultation. Our readings will sometimes intermingle passages in the ancient languages with English translations for we shall aim to balance the coverage of a wide range of ancient biography with a prudence sense of how much Greek or Latin can be read each week. Students are, however, encouraged to read the assigned works in the original language in their entirety. Loebs acquired from Rutgers libraries will probably suffice for the readings in English. However, three translations that may also be useful are Penguin editions: A. Birley, trans., Lives of the Later Caesars, Viking-Penguin 1976; Plutarch, Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, I. Scott-Kilvert trans., Viking-Penguin 1960; Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, R. Graves trans., Viking-Penguin 1957. Course Requirements: There will be a final exam, a short test, which will be composed of several passages to be translated. This test will be self-administered during the second half of the term and Greek and Roman Biography 2014 2 will constitute 30% of the final grade. Aside from this exam, the primary obligation for this course will be the production of a 15-20 page research paper on some aspect of Classical biographical literature. A list of topics is attached to this syllabus, and a tentative subject should be chosen by September 24. We will hold a meeting during exams (December 17, 8:00-11:00) for participants to present their papers. Final, corrected copies will be due at 1:00 on December 20. Preliminary drafts should be available for review by the afternoon of December 12, in order to allow the members of the class to examine them before discussion. Another student will be assigned to lead the discussion of each individual's paper. This paper and its oral presentation will comprise 45% of the final grade. The remaining 25% of the final grade will be based on participation in the meetings of the course. Course Outline: * = Weeks likely to see translation and discussion carried over from earlier weeks. Jan. 23: Introduction to Course; Discussion of Bibliography; Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature “Plutarch”, Latin Literature XXXX. Jan. 29: Hermippos (FGH 1026): Peri tōn hepta sophōn: F 9-20 Bollansée [c. 124 lines]; Satyros: Peri Euripidou fr. 6 (POxy 9.1176), fr. 39, col. II-XXII [c. 150 lines, Schorn]. See SAKAI. Feb. 5*: Cornelius Nepos: Preface (OCT 1.5 pp.); II. Themistocles [OCT 7.2 pp.]; in translation, XI. Iphicrates [Loeb 2.5], XV. Epaminondas [Loeb 9.25]; Feb. 12: Nepos: Atticus [OCT 15 pp.]; in translation, Cato [Loeb 2.6 pp.]) Feb. 19: Plutarch Themistocles 1-5 [Teubner 6.5 pp.]; 10-13 [Teubner 4.8]; in translation, Themistocles 6-9 [Loeb 5.25]; 14-17 [Loeb 5 pp.] Feb. 26: Plutarch Themistocles 21-24 [Teubner 5 pp.]; 27-29 [Teubner 4.2]; 31-32 [Teubner 3.25]; in translation, 18-20 [Loeb 4]; 25-26 [Loeb 2.1]; 30 [Loeb 1] March 5*: Suetonius De grammaticis et rhetoribus 1-4 [Teubner c. 4.5 pp.]; De viris illustribus, De poetis, “Introduction” [62 lines, Rostagni] & “Horace” [79 ll., Rostagni] March 12: Suetonius Claudius 1-21 [Teubner c. 15 pp.] March 26: Suetonius Claudius 22-46 [Teubner c. 15 pp.] April 2: Suetonius Galba (VII) [Teubner c. 14 pp.]; in translation, Plutarch Galba [c. 33 pp.]; cf. Tacitus Historiae 1.1-50. April 9*: Historia Augusta, I. Vita Hadriani 1-8 [Teubner 8. pp.] Greek and Roman Biography 2014 3 April 16: Historia Augusta, I. Vita Hadriani 9-17 [Teubner 8.5 pp.] April 23: Historia Augusta, I. Vita Hadriani 18-27 [Teubner 9 pp.] April 30: Historia Augusta, XXIX. Quadrigae Tyrannorum 1-11 [Teubner 12 pp.] Greek and Roman Biography 2014 4 Greek and Roman Biography: General Bibliography A. Collections F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Leiden 1923-) = FGH FGH 4A Biography, 1, Jan Bollansée, Guido Schepens, Johannes Engels, and Els Theys, The Pre-Hellenistic Period, (Leiden 1998) ISBN13: 9789004110946 FGH 4A Biography, 3, Jan Bollansée, ed. by G. Schepens, Hermippos of Smyrna (Leiden 1999) ISBN13: 9789004113039 FGH 4A Biography, 7, Jan Radicke, Imperial and Undated Authors (Leiden 1999) ISBN13: 9789004113046 K.O. Müller & T. Müller, Fragmenta Historicum Graecorum (Paris 1841-1870) = FHG 2 H. Peter, Historicum Romanorum Reliquiae (Leipzig 1914 [1 ]; 1906 [2]) F. Wehrli, Die Schule des Aristoteles, 1-10 (Basel 1944-1959) A. Westermann, Biographoi: Vitarum Scriptores Graeci Minores (Brunswick 1845) B. Studies G. Arrighetti, “La biografia antica negli studi sulla dell’ ultimo cinquantennio,” Cultura e Scuola 1 (1966) 37-44 ____, Poeti, eruditi e biografi. Momenti della riflessione dei Greci sulla letturatura (Pisa 1987) La biographie antique: Vandœuvres-Genève, 25-29 août 1997 : huit exposés suivis de Discussions, ed., W.W. Ehlers, Genève-Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt, 1998. C.O. Brink, “Tragic History and Aristotle’s School,” PCPS 186 (1960) 14-19 ____, “Peripatos,” RE Suppl. 7 (1950) 917-19 I. Bruns, Das literarische Porträt der Griechen im fünften und vierten Jahrhundert vor Christi Geburt (Berlin 1896) ____, Die Persönlichkeit in der Geschichtsschreibung der Alten (Berlin 1898) C. Cooper, “Aristoxenos, Περι βίων and Peripatetic Biography,’ Mouseion 2 (2002) 307-339 M.-L. Desclos, ed., Biographie des hommes, biographie des dieux: conférences du P.A.R.S.A. (Pôle alpin de recherches sur les sociétés anciennes) Grenoble, 1997-1998 (Paris 2000 A. Dihle, Studien zur griechischen Biographie (Abhandl. Akad. Göttingen 3.37: 1956); review K. von Fritz, Gnomon 28 (1956) 320-22 [[PA 3043.D5 1970] M.J. Edwards & S.C.R. Swain, Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (Oxford 1997) M. Erler & S. Schorn, Die griechische Biographie in hellenistischer Zeit: Akten des internationalen Kongresses vom 26.-29. Juli 2006 in Würzburg (Berlin 2007) M. Fuhrmann, “Biographie,” Der Kleine Pauly 4.902-4 (1964) I. Gallo, “L=origine e lo svilluppo della biografia greca,” QUCC 18 (1974) 173-86 J. Geiger, “Nepos and Plutarch. From Latin to Greek Political Biography,” ICS 13 (1988) 245-56 H. Gerstinger, “Biographie,” Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 2 (1954) 386-91 O. Gigon & C. Andresen, “Biographie,” Lexikon der antiken Welt (1965) 469-73 ____ & V. Pöschl, “Autobiographie,” Lexikon der antiken Welt (1965) 414-17 Greek and Roman Biography 2014 5 T. Hägg, “Recent work on Ancient Biography. 1: Review Article,” SO 76 (2001) 191-200 T. Hägg & P. Rousseau, eds., Greek biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Berkeley 2000) H. Homeyer, “Zu den Anfängen der griechischen Biographie,” Philologus 106 (1962) 75-85 F. Leo, Die griechisch-römische Biographie nach ihrer litterarischen Form (Leipzig 1901) [PA 3043.L4 1901a] B.C. McGing & J.M. Mossman, The Limits of Ancient Biography (Swansea 2006) G. Misch, Geschichte der Autobiographie2 (Frankfurt 1945-1969) = A History of Autobiography in Antiquity I-II (London 1950), review R. Harder, Gnomon 8 (1932) 162-65 (1st ed.) [CT 25.M514] A. Momigliano, The Development of Greek Biography (Cambridge, MA 1971, 2 1993) [PA 3043.M6 1993] ____, “Second Thoughts on Greek Biography,”@ Mededel. Kon. Nederl. Akad. (1971) ??? A. Rostagni, “Note autobiografiche nell’ epopea (dai Greci ai Latini),” Belfagor 1 (1946) 73-79 = “Elementi autobiografici nell' epopea,” Scritti Minori 2.2 (Turin 1956) 190-200 D.A. Russell, “Roman Biography,” OCD2 168 H. Sonnabend, Geschichte der antiken Biographie: von Isokrates bis zur Historia Augusta (Stuttgart 2002) W. Steidle, Sueton und die antike Biographie (Munich 1951) D.R. Stuart, Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography (Berkeley 1928) [PA 3043.S929E] S.C.R. Swain, “Biography and Biographic in the Literature of the Roman empire,” Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman, 1-37. K. Vössing, ed., Biographie und Prosopographie: internationales Kolloquium zum 65.
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