CLSICS280 Special Topics: Life & Works of Julius Caesar
Course Description
In Julius Caesar were combined many remarkable men: Rome’s greatest general, he reformed the calendar which we still use today. His political and legal initiatives transformed Roman government, and his building projects changed the city of Rome and its empire. His Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars were models of the "clean" or "Attic" style of writing which offer both lively narrative and ethnographic description. Readings will include selections from the works of Caesar and his contemporaries, modern scholarship and biography, and discussion of his coins, portrait statues, and building projects.
Course Video
Video IntroductionClosed Captioned
Academic Information
Credits: 3
Schedule & Fee
Dates: Jun 1 - Aug 26
Class #: 1935
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $960
Instructor
Randall Colaizzi
randall.colaizzi@umb.edu | Bio
Book Information
  1. Caesar, Julius. The Civil War (Trans. John Carter). Oxford. ISBN 978-0199540624.
  2. Caesar, Julius. The Gallic War (Trans. Carolyn Hammond). Oxford. ISBN 978-0192835826.
  3. Gilliver, Kate. Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Osprey. ISBN: 978-1841763057.
  4. Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar: Life of a Colossus. Oxford. ISBN: 978-0300126891
  5. Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar’s Civil War. Osprey. ISBN: 978-1841763927.
  6. Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Oxford. ISBN: 978-0199536122.
  7. & Additional texts supplied by the instructor.
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