Loyola University Chicago

CLST 277: The World of Late Antiquity

Spring Semester 2017
Dr. Jacqueline Long

Diocletian, portrait head c 284 from Nicomedia, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, photo J. Long

Study Questions

These questions suggest directions for you to pursue your ideas about late antique history and culture. Questions about upcoming readings generally flag issues I expect will be important in class discussions. But the questions do not merely summarize our discussions (summary too can be a worthwhile kind of studying, but it is different from what these questions aim at), nor do they necessarily forecast exam questions very closely. Rather, they invite you to develop interesting lines of thought. One thing exams will ask you to do is to discuss specific ideas about the late-antique world in terms of concrete evidence in our course material. Therefore you will find it useful, as you think about even very wide-ranging questions, to identify specific pieces of evidence in the material we are covering that help demonstrate your observations and prove your insights, and to be able to explain clearly just how those pieces of evidence validate the conclusions you draw.

file in progress - perennially
The study questions in this file will be updated through the course of the semester from study questions used the last time this course was taught, with a slightly different arrangement of material. If the days are off, it's because the questions haven't yet been checked against the current progress and interests of the class. The old questions remain worth thinking about, but be sure double-check again later.

Friday 17 March

From today's class: For tonight's reading:

Monday 20 March

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Wednesday 22 March

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Friday 24 March

From today's class, we'll hold over the questions that deal with material outside of Augustine on Manichaeanism, till after the exam Monday (that is, Augustine's discussion of his own experience with Manichaeanism is within the scope of material potentially appearing on the exam): For tonight's reading:

Monday 27 March

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Wednesday 29 March

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Friday 31 March

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Monday 3 April

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Get the complete texts of our documents for tonight on-line: Symmachus, Referral 3 and Ambrose, Letters XVII and XVIII; you may find it helpful also to refer to Lee's introductions to his selections from these documents, items #6.4, 6.5.


Wednesday 5 April

From today's class: For tonight's reading:

Friday 7 April

From today's class: For tonight's reading we rejoin Augustine in Milan:

Monday 10 April

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  • Good Pesach!


    Wednesday 12 April

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  • Happy Easter!


    Wednesday 19 April

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    Friday 21 April

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    Monday 24 April

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    Wednesday 26 April

    From today's class: For tonight's reading:

    Friday 28 April

    From today's class: For next week

    Review all material assigned to date for the final exam Saturday 5/6.


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