Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	DUE DATES
1	Introduction: Rome’s City-state Empire
2	The Constitution of the Roman Republic
3	Impact of Empire: The Elite and the Peasant-soldier
4	Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus	Short paper option 1 due
5	The Gracchi as Watershed
6	Marius the ‘New Man’: Sallust’s Jugurthine War	Short paper option 2 due
7	Marius, the Army, and the Politics of Land
8	The Social War and the Unification of Italy
9	Civil War I: Marius and Sulla	Short paper option 3 due
10	The Dictatorship of Sulla
11	Pompey and the Special Command
12	Cicero Saves the Republic: The Conspiracy of Catiline
13	The Three-headed Monster: Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar	Short paper option 4 due
14	Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul
15	The Urban Plebs and Publius Clodius
16	Pompey the Great
17	Civil War II: Crossing the Rubicon	Topic proposal and outline for research paper due
18	The Roman Revolution
19	Opposing Caesar: Cato & Marcellus
20	Plutarch’s Caesar
21	The Ides of March
22	The Villain of the Piece: Marc Antony	Research paper due
23	Civil War III: Antony and Octavian
24	The Emergence of the Augustan Principate
25	Fall of the Republic: Revolution, Crisis, Transformation
26	Conclusion	Revised research paper due