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Classics History Introductory Courses

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CLASSHIS 37N. The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction

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CLASSHIS 37N. The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction

(F,Sem) (Same as HISTORY 12N.) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Saller, R)

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