DSMgrA02 Reading and Interpretation of Historical Sources - Rome

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Melounová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jarmila Bednaříková, CSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 10:50–12:25 A24
Prerequisites
DSBcA021 Bachelor's State Exam || DSBcZk Bachelor's State Exam
Very good knowledge of Latin or Ancient Greek
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students will be able to select and search out independently primary sources for the subject of the research in Roman history, and to comprehend them in the context of the author, genre and time. Students will also learn how to work with relevant electronic resources within the databases Litterae ante portas (text databases, dictionaries etc.).
Syllabus
  • In the seminary selected parts of Greek and Latin narrative sources concerning history of Rome from the beginnings to Late Antiquity will be read. The texts will be read either in the original language or in a translation according to the skills of the students. The texts will be chosen from these areas: Greek historians of the Roman Republic and the Principate (Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cassius Dio; Herodianus); Titus Livius; Augustan poets (pseudo-Tibullus - Panegyricus Messalae, Propertius; Ovidius - Ex Ponto); Latin historians of the Early and High Empire (Cornelius Tacitus – Agricola, Historiae; Plinius Minor – Epistulae, Panegyricus Traiani; Historia Augusta); Christian historians of the Roman Empire (Eusebius - Vita Constantini; Lactantius - De mortibus persecutorum; Paulus Orosius – Historiae adversus paganos).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SYME, Ronald. Tacitus. Vol. I, II. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1958.
  • A companion to Tacitus. Edited by Victoria Emma Pagan. 1st pub. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, xvii, 599. ISBN 9781405190329. info
  • Latin panegyric. Edited by Roger Rees. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xvi, 430. ISBN 9780199576715. info
  • A companion to Greek and Roman historiography. Edited by John Marincola. Pbk. ed. 1st pub. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, xli, 705. ISBN 9781444339239. info
  • KAPUST, Daniel J. Republicanism, rhetoric, and Roman political thought : Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, viii, 196. ISBN 9781107000575. info
  • The Cambridge companion to Tacitus. Edited by A. J. Woodman. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2009, xvi, 366. ISBN 9780521697484. info
  • The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians. Edited by Andrew Feldherr. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2009, xviii, 464. ISBN 9780521670937. info
  • Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus. Edited by Ellen O'Gorman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, vii, 200 p. ISBN 0521660564. info
  • SCHEITBAUER, Andrea. Kaiserbild und literarisches Programm : Untersuchungen zur Tendenz der Historia Augusta. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1987, 236 s. ISBN 382049927X. info
  • VON ALBRECHT, H. Lateinische Literatur. 1983. info
  • SYME, Ronald. Emperors and biography : studies in the Historia Augusta. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971, vii, 306. ISBN 0198143575. info
  • HOHL, Ernst. Über die Glaubwürdigkeit der Historia Augusta. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1953. info
Teaching methods
critical analysis of selected texts
Assessment methods
discussion over one of the commented texts
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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