GROUP PRESENTATIONS: Thursday, March 30 & Tuesday, April 4 (15 mins. per group); comparative analysis (similarities & differences) of a modern HTVT topic versus some course material; Presentation Guide
Course Units/Areas for Possible Presentation Topics:
Part I: Everyday Horror, Terror, Violence & Trauma - Roman Slavery, e.g. comparative study of some aspect of American or another historical instance of slavery with Roman material (e.g. violence & punishment, manumission & freedpersons, rebellions, deracination, markets, labor, paternalism & nostalgia, creative resistance, etc.); slavery in film & television, etc. (historical/legal or thematic)
Part II:
Cultural Catastrophe: Epic Trauma & Memory of Civil War (as represented in Lucan), e.g. comparative analysis of a film or television show about civil war or some other fracturing of society, or a traumatic cultural memory
Part III: The Terror of Autocracy - Roman Emperors, e.g. comparative study of a historical or contemporary autocrat or autocratic personality with Nero or Caligula, life under autocracy (real or fictional)
Part IV: Spectacles of Violence - Theater & Amphitheater, e.g. comparative analysis of some aspect of HTVT in modern entertainment with Roman spectacles (gladiators, etc.) and public executions; film, television show, etc., with Senecan themes (violent family dysfunction, destructive emotional extremes, war's non-combatants)
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