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Cicero Denounces Catiline

Cicero Denounces Caitlin

(Fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1889. Palazzo Madama, Rome)

Figure Assignments

Plutarch's Lives (Choose website/book)

Plutarch. "Title of Section." Fall of the Roman Republic. Translated by Rex Warner, Rev. ed., Penguin, 2005, pp. ?-?, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c448pTQMiflpKny_boDsEMHX2_Fb0AJ9/view?usp=sharing. Accessed ? Jan. 2021.

Marius

Sulla

Crassus

Pompey

Caesar

Cicero

Plutarch. "Name of Section." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman LivesTranslated by Robin Waterfield, Oxford UP, 2009, pp. ?-?, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yQNM-OU1_cWQJZJsHh3FBn0Uo23P-D6d. Accessed ? Jan. 2021.

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

Antony

Augustus (Choose Website/book) & Suetonius (Choose website/anthology)

Augustus. The Deeds of the Divine Augustus [Res Gestae]. Translated by Thomas Bushnell, 1998, Internet Classics Archive, classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html. Accessed 22 Jan. 2021.

Suetonius. "The Life of Augustus." The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Loeb Classical Library, 1913. Greek and Roman Authors on LacusCurtius, penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/ 12Caesars/Augustus*.html. Accessed 22 Jan. 2021.

Databases (NoodleTools choices: see below)

*Ancient and Medieval History Online (Choose database/book; open chapter/section field)

*Gale in Context: Biography (Choose database/reference source - for document type
"Biography" - or database/magazine.)

Gale eBooks (Choose database/reference source)

**Gale One File: World History (Choose database/journal)

Oxford Reference Online (Choose database/reference source)

*new

**more advanced

EBSCO eBook Collection (Choose database/book on NoodleTools. Open the chapter/section field. Include page range for chapter..)

Cleopatra: A Biography (3 users; exit book at top right of page when finished so other students have access)

Cleopatra and Rome