Every student is required to take the midsemester and final examinations, to deliver one oral report in class on an assigned topic, and to submit on 26 April a 10-12 page typewritten or printed paper on one of several topics to be distributed to the class on 27 February. A topic not on this list may be chosen only with the previous approval of the instructor. Students are urged to have completed assigned readings before attending the lecture at which the reading is discussed. They are to be chosen by second meeting. Each report should take some 30 minutes.
Handouts are welcome.
Suetonius, Life of Nero. Seneca, On Rage. Seneca, On Clemency. Seneca, On Consolation to Marcia . Jesus' Sermon on the Mount as an instigation to Class Warfare.