Response Readings and Podcasts

The following is a list of readings and podcasts to which you may respond according to the guidelines set out here. The module title indicates the topic to which the reading most directly corresponds – if you found that topic interesting in class or during your primary reading, odds are that you’ll get something out of the readings in that module!

Remember that you are allowed to submit up to 4 responses per month in September, October, and November, and up to 2 responses in December. Guidelines for submitting each response can also be found here.

All responses should be submitted via the Upload Portal.

Introduction: Women and Men in Roman Literature and Society

• Martin, Thomas R. 2012. “Introduction and Background.” In Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Justinian, 1-19. New Haven.
• Zuckerberg, Donna. 2016. “How to Be a Good Classicist under a Bad Emperor.” Eidolon.

The Origins of Roman Literature and Plautus’ Casina

• James, Sharon. 2016. “Ancient Comedy, Women’s Lives: Finding Social History and Seeing the Present in Classical Comedy.” Humanities Futures: Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.

Cicero, A Novus Homo, and the Cursus Honorum

• Ruprecht, Daniel. 2018. “Truthful Hyperbole, Honest Bullshit.” Eidolon.
• Everitt, Anthony. 2001. “The Forum and the Fray.” In Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician, 47-66. New York.
• History of Philosophy podcast, Episode 71 - Rhetorical Questions: Cicero.

Conspiracy and Civil War in the 1st Century BCE

• Everitt, Anthony. 2001. “Against Catilina: Campaign and Conspiracy: 63 BC.” In Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician, 87-112. New York.
• Kenty, Joanna. 2016. “Alexander Hamilton’s Catiline Obsession.” Eidolon.
• Wazer, Caroline. 2017. “Julius Caesar’s Empty Audience.” Lapham’s Quarterly.

Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 1: novum libellum and the Female Perspective

• Kamil, Mariam. 2019. “‘I Shall — #$\% You And *\@$# You’: Grappling with Censorship as a Queer Classicist.” Eidolon.
• Hallett, Judith P. 1989. “Women as Same and Other in Classical Roman Elite.” Helios 16.1: 59-78.
• Emperors of Rome podcast, Episode 63: Women Poets.

Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 2: Latin Love Elegy and the Puella as Domina

• Fulkerson, Laurel. 2013. “Seruitium amoris: The interplay of dominance, gender and poetry.” In The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy, edited by Thea S. Thorsen, 180-193. Cambridge.
• Wyck, Maria. 1989. “Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy.”. Helios 16.1: 25-47.

Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 3: Republican Odes and Imperial Epigrams

• Hall, Claire. 2015. “I Am in Every Pocket, Every Hand: Twitter and Martial.” Eidolon.
• Shumate, Nancy. 2005. “Gender and Nationalism in Horace’s ‘Roman’ Odes (Odes 3.2, 3.5, 3.6).” Helios 32.1: 81-107.
• Syndikus, Hans Peter. 2010. “The Roman Odes.” In A Companion to Horace, edited by Gregson Davis, 193-209. Hoboken.

Livy 1: The Aims of Livian Historiography and the Foundation of Rome

• Roller, Matthew B. 2009. “The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians, edited by Andrew Feldherr, 214-230. Cambridge.
• Brown, Robert. 1995. “Livy’s Sabine Women and the Ideal of Concordia.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 125: 291-319.

Livy 2: From Romulus to Numa

• Two episodes of the History of Rome podcast: Episodes 003a (click for link) and 003b (click for link), both entitled “The Seven Kings of Rome”.

Livy 3: The Tarquins, Lucretia, and the End of the Monarchy

• Joshel, Sandra. 2002. “The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy’s Lucretia and Verginia.” In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources, edited by Laura McClure, 163-187. Malden (MA) and Oxford. CW: rape.
• Kenty, Joanna. 2017. “Avenging Lucretia: From Rape to Revolution.” Eidolon. CW: rape.

Augustus: pater patriae

• Milnor, Kristina. 2007. “Augustus, History, and the Landscape of the Law.” Arethusa 40.1: 7-23.
• History of Rome podcast, Episode 51: Actium
• History of Rome podcast, Episode 52: Caesar Augustus

Aeneid 1: The Exile and the Queen

• Lushkov, Ayelet Haimson. 2016. “Legendary! The Aeneid’s Tapestry of Lies.” Eidolon.
• Pandey, Nandini. 2018. “Rome’s ‘Empire Without End’ and the ‘Endless’ U.S. War on Terror: Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11.” Eidolon.

Aeneid 2: From Carthage to Italy

• Nugent, S. Georgia. 1992. “Vergil’s ‘Voice of the Women’ in Aeneid V.” Arethusa 25.2: 255-292.
• Uden, James. 2014. “The Smile of Aeneas.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 144: 73-98.

Aeneid 3: A Roman Iliad

• Dunlap, David W. 2014. “A Memorial Inscription’s Grave Origins.” The New York Times.
• James, Sharon L. 1995. “Establishing Rome with the Sword: Condere in the Aeneid.” The American Journal of Philology 116.4: 623-637.

Non-Epic Hexameter 1: Catullan Epyllion and Vergilian Bucolics

• Wasdin, Katherine. 2017. “Weaving Time: Ariadne and the Argo in Catullus, C. 64.” Helios 44.2: 181-199.
• Nisbet, R.G.M. 2008. “Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners.” In Vergil’s Eclogues: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, edited by Katharina Volk, 155-188. Oxford.

Non-Epic Hexameter 2: Satire from Lucilius to Juvenal

• Freudenberg, Kirk. 2005. “Introduction: Roman Satire.” In The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 1-30. Cambridge.
• Gowers, Emily. 2005. “The Restless Companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2.” In The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 48-61. Cambridge.
• Rimell, Victoria. 2005. “The Poor Man’s Feast: Juvenal.” In The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 81-94. Cambridge.

Ovid 1: ab origine mundi

• Heran, Elena. 2019. “Narcissus and the Drawbacks of Being a Hot Teenage Boy.” Pursuit, University of Melbourne.
• Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby podcast, Episode 53, Jupiter and Neptune Ruin Everything: The Stories of Caenis & Callisto. CW: strong language, rape.

Ovid 2: From Divine Punishment to Human Horrors

• McArdle, Kelly. 2019. “The Art of Resistance: Rereading Ovid in the Wake of Silent Sam.” Eidolon.
• McCarter, Stephanie. 2018. “Rape, Lost in Translation.” Electric Literature.

Ovid 3: ad mea tempora

• Pavlock, Barbara. 2009. “Ulysses’ Wounds in the Contest over the Arms of Achilles.” Classical World 102.2: 178-181.

Ovid 4: From Amatory to Exilic Elegy

• Zuckerberg, Donna. 2015. “Bang Rome: Ovid and the Original Sin of Pickup Artistry.” Eidolon. CW: misogyny, sexual assault

Roman Philosophy: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Cynicism

• Sulprizio, Chiara. 2015. “Why Is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment?” Eidolon.
• McCarter, Stephanie. 2019. “Seneca’s ‘Lost Cause’: The Myth of the Noble Stoic / Southern Slave Owner.” Eidolon.

Lucan’s Pharsalia: A Republican Retrospective

• Rosner-Siegel, Judith. 2010. “The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-157.” In Lucan: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, edited by Charles Tesoriero, Frances Muecke, and Tamara Neal, 184-200. Oxford.

Seneca and (the Loss of) Roman Tragedy

• Trinacty, Christopher. 2015. “Senecan tragedy.” In The Cambridge Companion to Seneca, edited by Shadi Bartsch and Alessandro Schiesaro, 29-40. Cambridge.

Imperial Biography: Suetonius’ Nero and the Lives of the Caesars

• Curry, Susan. 2014. “Nero Quadripes: Animalizing the Emperor in Suetonius’s Nero.” Arethusa 47: 197-230.

Imperial Historiography: Tacitus and How to Survive a Tyrant

• Haynes, Holly. 2006. “Survival and Memory in the Agricola.” Arethusa 39.2: 149-170.
• Blair, Stephen. 2017. “Erasing History? The Roman Way to Memorialize a Painful Past.” Eidolon.
• The History of Rome podcast, Episode 75: The Forgotten Son

Imperial Epistolography: Pliny the Younger

• Killgrove, Kristina. 2018. “New Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite History in a Major Way.” Forbes.
• Woolf, Greg. 2015. “Pliny/Trajan and the Poetics of Empire.” Classical Philology 110.2: 132-151.

The Epigraphic Habit: Graffiti and Epitaphs

• Hirst, K. Kris. 2019. “The Vindolanda Tablets: Letters Home from the Roman Forces in Britain.” ThoughtCo.

Apuleius 1: Making an Ass of Yourself

• James, Paula. 2014. “Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast.” In A Companion to the Ancient Novel, edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne, 156-170. Hoboken.

Apuleius 2: Cupid, Psyche, and the Degenerate Priests

• Parker, S. and P. Murgatroyd. 2002. “Love Poetry and Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche.” Classical Quarterly 52.1: 400-404.

Apuleius 3: Satirical Salvation?

• O’Sullivan, Timothy M. 2016. “Human and Asinine Postures in Apuleius’ Golden Ass.” Classical Journal 112.2: 196-216.

Perpetua: A Christian Martyr

• Hunink, Vincent. 2010. “Did Perpetua Write Her Prison Account?” Listy filologické / Folia philologica 133.1-2: 147-155.