BASC70026 - The Landmark Julius Caesar

Course Description

We will use the resources of the Landmark edition of Julius Caesar's writings to explore the Roman Civil War from Caesar's perspective. The Landmark edition, with its support structure of maps and timelines, will give us a set of tools and context to allow us to focus more closely on the text itself. We will supplement our reading with selections from Plutarch's Lives to help understand how later Romans viewed the participants in this critical period of their history.

Notes

Required texts: 

The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert B. Strassler (2019), ISBN: 978-0307455444 

Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Vol 2, Modern Library Classics, 978-0375756771