Format: the exam will consist of 2 Parts:
Part I: identifications – you'll be asked to provide a few sentences/short paragraph identifying an item in terms of its significance and relevance to our class. [ca. 40% of total exam points]
Part II: commentaries on passages selected from your assigned readings (these are likely to be passages we discussed in class: see the course Outlines). [ca. 60% of total exam points]
Part I – possible items for the identifications (note that Joshel has a Glossary of terms on pp. 215-18):
Cato
Varro
Columella
benevolent paternalism
Lost Cause
chattel
slavery
peculium
manumission
Spartacus
servus
deracination/natal alienation
Edict of the Aediles
castata
villa
vilicus & vilica
instrumentum vocale
vicarius
contubernales
collegium
columbarium
ergastulum
paterfamilias
patria potestas
Demea
Micio
Hegio
Tyndarus
Stalagmus
ethics of reciprocity
matrona
materfamilias
cum manu
sine manu
patron
libertus
pilleus
obsequium
Tiberius
Trimalchio
Fortunata
apotheosis
social death
Part II – passages for commentary You will be given passages from the Roman literary and documentary works we have read* and asked to provide the following:
(1) identify the author;
(2) identify the title of the work from which the passage is taken;
(3) briefly describe the context in which the passage occurs;
(4) write a carefully organized paragraph or two commenting on the broader significance of the passage in light of our main course themes (slavery & freedom) and the specific topics we have covered so far [this is the most important part of your commentary and the majority of commentary points fall here].
*works we have read:
Seneca, Letter 47
Cato, On Agriculture (selections)
Columella, On Agriculture (selections)
Varro, On Agriculture (selections)
Plautus, Captivi
Terence, Adelphoe
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita/The Rise of Rome (selections)
(Anonymous husband) "Laudatio Turiae"
Pliny, Letters 3.16
Phaedrus, Fables (selections)
Petronius, Satyricon ("Dinner at Trimalchio's")