Week 1 Background
Tuesday (8/24)
Class orientation; no lecture
Thursday (8/26)
Lectures 1-2: Rome and the Mediterranean world (download lecture slides)
Reading 1: Brown, 6-21
Week 2 The high empire to 180
Tuesday (8/31)
Video: “Roman City”
No reading
Thursday (9/2)
Lecture 4: The Roman empire to Septimius Severus (download lecture slides)
Reading 2: Wells, chapters 9 and 10 (Wells ch. 9 here; Wells ch. 10 here)
Week 3 180-235 (note: these numbers are approximate dates covered during the week)
Tuesday (9/7)
Lecture 5: The Severan dynasty (download lecture slides)
Reading 3: Wells, chapter 11 (here)
Thursday (9/9)
Lecture 6: Sources for Late Antiquity (download lecture slides)
Reading 4: Cameron 1, 13-29; Brown, 22-47
Week 4 235-306
Tuesday (9/14)
Quiz 1 on lectures 1-5, readings 1-3
Lecture 7: Crisis of the third century (download lecture slides)
Reading 5: Cameron 1, 1-12
Thursday (9/16)
Lecture 8: Diocletian’s reforms and the “dominate” (download lecture slides)
Reading 6: Cameron 1, 30-46
Week 5 306-325
Tuesday (9/21)
Lecture 9: Tetrarchic & Constantinian culture (download lecture slides)
Study questions for discussion 1
Reading 7: Cameron 1, 47-65; start Eusebius, Life of Constantine
Thursday (9/23)
Lecture 9 continued
Reading 8: Cameron 1, 66-84, Cameron 2, 57-69, Brown, 47-69; continue Eusebius, Life of Constantine
Week 6 325-337
Tuesday (9/28)
Discussion 1: Life of Constantine and Constantine’s conversion (study questions)
Reading 9: finish Eusebius, Life of Constantine; excerpts from Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors (download text), Panegyric 12 (download text)
Thursday (9/30)
Library research session (download lecture slides)
Research resources and techniques handout
No reading
Week 7 337-363
Tuesday (10/5)
Lecture 11: Christian origins and Christian empire; Constantine's dynasty (download lecture slides)
Reading 10: Cameron 1, 85-98; start Ammianus Marcellinus
Thursday (10/7)
Quiz 2 on lectures 6-10, readings 4-9
Lecture 12: Julian (download lecture slides)
Reading 11: Brown, 70-82; continue Ammianus
Week 8 363-379
Tuesday (10/12)
Lecture 13: Valentinian and Valens; Goths and Huns (download lecture slides)
Reading 12: Cameron 1, 99-150; continue Ammianus
Thursday (10/14)
Discussion 2: Ammianus (study questions)
Reading 13: finish Ammianus
Week 9 380-395
Tuesday (10/19)
Lecture 14: Christianizing the elite; Theodosius I (download lecture slides)
Reading 14: Cameron 1, 133-169, Cameron 2, 69-80, Brown, 83-113
Thursday (10/21)
Catch-up lecture (if needed)
No reading
Week 10 395-476
Tuesday (10/26)
Quiz 3 on lectures 10-14, readings 10-14
Lecture 15: Theodosius II; disasters of the early 5th century (download lecture slides)
Reading 15: Brown, 114-125
Thursday (10/28)
Work on research proposal assignments; no class
Week 11 450-481
Tuesday (11/2)
Lecture 15 continued: Fall of Rome in the West, 455-476 (download lecture slides)
Reading 16: Cameron 2, 33-56, Brown, 126-135
Thursday (11/4)
Lecture 16: Survival of East Rome to 474 (download lecture slides)
Reading 17: Cameron 2, 81-103, Brown, 136-149
Week 12
Tuesday (11/9)
No lecture
Research conferences 2 pm to 4 pm
E-mail me to request a half-hour time slot or just show up (SCI 267B)
Thursday (11/11) Veteran’s Day
No class: University closed
Reading 18: Brown, 150-159; start Procopius, Secret History
Week 13 518-565
Tuesday (11/16)
Quiz 4 on lectures 15-16, readings 16-18
[Note: the quiz will cover both East and West to approximately 480, including material covered in lecture and in the readings]
Lecture 16 continued (download lecture slides)
Reading 19: Cameron 2, 104-151; continue Procopius, Secret History
Lecture 16 continued (download lecture slides); Lecture 18: Justinian (download lecture slides)
No reading
Outlines & bibliographies due in class
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 565-600
Tuesday (11/30)
Lecture 18: Justinian (download lecture slides)
Reading 20: Cameron 2, 152-175; continue Procopius, Secret History
Wikipedia Assignment Instructions & Grading Rubric
Thursday (12/2)
Discussion 3: Procopius, Secret History (study questions)
Reading 21: Cameron 2, 152-175; finish Procopius, Secret History
Week 15 End of antiquity (600-641)
Tuesday (12/7)
Quiz 5 on lectures 16-18, readings 19-21
Lecture 19: The late 6th century (download lecture slides)
Reading 22: Brown, 160-173
Thursday (12/9)
Lecture 20: The end of the east Roman empire (download lecture slides)
Reading 23: Cameron 2, 176-196, Brown, 174-187; optional: Brown, 188-203
Wikipedia entries due in BOTH by e-mail AND in hard copy to my office (SCI 267B) during exam time for HIST 325: 1:30-4 pm Thursday December 16th