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CLST 384 - The Humanism of Antiquity II
Spring Semester 2022
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In this capstone course, students pursuing the Department's different majors
and the Latin minor (and Post-Baccalaureate candidates, Greek minors, and Classical
Civilization minors who choose)
study jointly how selected important Roman texts develop ideas about the
human person. Participants' reading, research, writing, and contributions to discussion
build their knowledge, hone their judgment, and advance our shared inquiry. Each takes
responsibility for actively, mutually, enriching
us all. What did Roman civilization contribute to humanity's conversation
about individuals' relationships with one another, with their community, with
the state, with other peoples, with the natural world, and with the transcendent?
How did the forces of Roman history shape Roman society, culture, and values?
How can we today improve our understanding of this part of our past? How can we bring
our understanding to bear on making our today more humane?
Our work together will pursue several interlocking aims (plus, ideally, that of
having fun with them):
- To study a selection of important texts of Roman literature, from the Republican
to the Imperial periods, thereby to gain knowledge of authors, works, genres, themes, and
literary techniques
- To analyze and critically evaluate our selected texts, especially as they bear upon Centering Questions of
humanistic inquiry: to identify ideas that animate literary texts, to describe how
the ideas and texts operate, to formulate, test, and refine arguments - thereby to discern better how
Roman discourse has contributed and can contine to contribute to conceptions of the
human spirit and its endeavors
- To recognize connections between texts and to follow the developent of ideas, ideals, and
literary expression
- To consider how our texts arise from and reflect on their context in
Roman history and culture, including other texts; in service of this goal also to connect and
flesh out knowledge of Roman history and culture
- To distinguish between ancient Roman perspectives and perspectives of other cultures and
periods, so as to recognize complexity and contingency in the formation of attitudes and values
and to deepen our capacity for understanding difference
- To practice and develop skills of oral and written expression especially as they serve dialogue
and analysis: to share learning collaboratively building human community
- To extend awareness of Classical Studies as an academic field, and how its varieties of
inquiry endeavor to compose multidimensional understanding of ancient Greek and (for our
present purposes, especially) Roman individuals, societies, cultures, discourses, and ideas
Thursday, 4:15pm-6:45pm
on campus: Crown Center 572
online: Zoom link in the Sakai site for this class
Dr. Jacqueline Long
Office Hours: Th 3:00pm-4:00pm, Crown 563 when classes are being held on campus or by
Zoom link in the Sakai
site for this class - otherwise by appointment
phoning 773-508-3511 will reach me eventually by Outlook's very approximate
transcription-function - e-mailing directly is a much sounder way to reach me
e-mail:
jlong1@luc.edu
Texts
- David Potter, Ancient Rome: a New History 3rd edn. (Thames & Hudson, 2018)
- additional resources on-line and in the library
Policies and Assessment
Schedule of Reading Assignments and Topics
Pragmatical Statement of Learning Outcomes
Disciplinary Knowledge - to be demonstrated orally and in writing
- Students will study significant works of Roman literature: they will demonstrate
specific knowledge of their stories and arguments, their characters, their themes and concerns,
and their literary techniques
- Students will analyze our works and their messages: they will explain concretely
how our texts figure ideas
- Students will recognize genres of Roman literature and identify our works' relationship to Roman
literary history (including their relationships to one another, within and across genres)
- Students will appreciate how Roman society and culture developed over time; they will describe
our works' connections to circumstances and concerns at the time they were composed
- Students will perform research through our works investigating Roman attitudes and values,
especially in relationship to Centering Questions of humanistic inquiry
- Students will further their knowledge of varieties of inquiry used in the field of Classical Studies,
and how they build multidimensional understanding of Classical, especially Roman, discourse, society,
and ideals
Critical Skills - to be exercised in active inquiry
- Students will gather information from literary texts and historical summary, and will analyze it
so as to generate understanding
- Students will form, test, assess, refine, and extend theories about Roman literature, culture, and values
- Students will explore how attitudes and values are formed and the bases implicit in Roman and modern
beliefs about the human person; they will recognize differences and commonalities, and they will endeavor to
understand reasons for differences and commonalities
Additional Resources
Basics of Academic Life: Studying, Research, and Writing
- SQ3R for Primary-Source
Coursework: a method for effective studying
- Patrick Rael, Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History: a Guide for College Students (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin
College 2004): developed by a historian of African American history and the American
Antibellum/Civil War/Reconstruction periods, as the illustrations suggest, and applicable to
other materials and inquiry as well: a model of approach for all stages of academic reflection and synthesis
- Guide to
Writing Academic Papers: a strategic checklist devised by your
instructor (hint, hint)
- Guide to
Beginning Research on Topics in Classical Studies: suggestions and
resources
- Loyola Libraries' Subject Guide
to Classical Studies, prepared by Classical Studies Bibliographer
Jane Currie: a research guide to help identify and access core research
resources relating to Classical Civilization, ancient Greek, or Latin.
- Oxford
Bibliographies Online - Classics: annotated bibliographies compiled by leading scholars in the relevant
fields, including historical overviews of our period (articles for individual authors, cultural topics, and
History, Roman will be variously useful; if this link dead-ends, try going in through the
Libraries' Databases - O, scrolling down to their link)
- Loyola Writing Program's
Standards of Good Writing. It credits the Rhetoric Program of the University of Illinois
at Urbana. Other universities also observe similar criteria: facility with them is widely taken as
correlating with educational attainment.
- Style Sheet: Mundane Good Habits of Competent Writers
- 1st edn. (1918) of William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White,
The Elements of Style: print
editions have been updated and it's well worth getting a copy if you don't own one already,
but in whatever edition you use it, Strunk and White is the
classic guide to desirable American prose style
- How to use apostrophes, or else.
- The the impotence of proofreading
by Taylor Mali.
Roman Literature, History, and Culture
- The Perseus Digital Library,
a non-profit enterprise housed in the
Department of Classics, Tufts University;
its flagship collections feature texts and images for the study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
- Lacus
Curtius, a staggeringly rich treasurehouse of on-line resources for
Roman archaeology and topography (especially), including texts; compiled by Bill Thayer.
- Luca Graverini's 2006 Timeline,
550 BC - AD 400; it gives links to Wikipedia articles, which always need to be verified with
authoritative references, but which help flag relevant context if you use them critically
- De Imperatoribus
Romanis: an on-line encyclopedia of Roman emperors, including
empresses, junior emperors, and ultimately non-successful claimants of
imperial power - classical, later Roman, and Byzantine. Includes
interlinked biographical articles with bibliography, imperial stemmata,
the DIR/ORB Ancient and Medieval Atlas, and an index of
select major battles. Scholarly, peer-edited; editorial boards
currently under the presidency of Richard Weigel of Western Kentucky
University (Classical through Later Roman Empire) and Lynda Garland of
the University of New England, New South Wales (Byzantine).
- Diotima: a clearing-house of resources
on the Internet for the study of women and gender in the ancient Mediterranean world.
- Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient Performance:
dedicated to the study of all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman performance (drama, dance, and music).
Advisory and Editorial Boards of
scholars in Classics and Theater. Published by the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Multiculturalism,
Race, & Ethnicity in Classics Consortium: an international organization with the goal
to raise awareness and support the study of multiculturalism, race, and ethnicity in
classics and classical archaeology at all levels. For MRECC, multiculturalism, race, and
ethnicity is central but intersectionality with gender, sexual orientation, and all matters
of identity are welcome.
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- Academic Advising & Support Services, Sullivan Center,
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- Writing Program and
Writing Center, Loyola Hall, LSC, 773-508-8468,
writingctr@luc.edu
Academic honesty, a.k.a. the life's blood of the intellect:
- Any practice of academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism,
obstructing the work of other students, etc.) perpetrated in this
course will result in failure of the course.
Do not do it.
- For basic principles and definitions, see the subsection on
Academic Integrity
in the
Academic Standards and Regulations.
The College of Arts and Sciences
endorses and upholds this
policy, as does the Department of Classical
Studies.
The very helpful Harvard Guide to Using Sources
comprehensively discusses the use of sources in college-level academic work, including how to avoid plagiarism.
- Loyola University requires that all instances of academic dishonesty must be reported to the
chairperson of the department involved and to the academic Dean of the student's College.
- Learning is wholly personal: it only happens if you do it yourself. Your University
record should be certifying only what has really happened.
Revised 16 January 2022 by
jlong1@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/