Undergraduate Course: The Catilinarian Conspiracy (LATI10027)

Course Outline
School	School of History, Classics and Archaeology	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course will provide an opportunity to study in detail one of the best-documented episodes of ancient history, the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63-62 BC, within its historical (political and social) context. The course will also involve literary study of the principal sources.
Course description	The Catilinarian conspiracy was the attempted seizure of power at Rome by the disaffected aristocrat Catiline; it was suppressed by the consul Cicero, who controversially executed five of the ringleaders. The sources (to be read partly in Latin and partly in English translation) consist of Cicero's speeches to the senate and people during the crisis, his later defence of an alleged conspirator P. Sulla, and the historian Sallustżs account of the conspiracy written twenty years afterwards. In addition to supplying historical information, these sources also represent the best and most exciting oratory and historiography of the late republic. The course will be particularly valuable in enabling Latin students who may previously have studied little or no Roman history to become expert in a tightly defined historical period (the mid-60s BC) through close study of the literary sources.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Latin 2A (LATI08011) AND Latin 2B (LATI08012)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	Visiting students should usually have at least 3 courses in Classics related subject matter(at least 2 of which should be in Latin) at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses but Elementary ot Intermediate Latin courses will not count. Students beyond Intermediate level but with less Latin than the prerequisite should consider taking either Latin 2a/2b.
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 30
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 172 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Written examination 60%; coursework 40%. Coursework essay of c. 3,000 words: 40%. One 2-hour written examination: 60%.
Feedback	Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment.
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:00

Academic year 2017/18, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: 3
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 172 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Written examination 60%; coursework 40%. Coursework essay of c. 3,000 words: 40%. One 2-hour written examination: 60%.
Feedback	Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment.
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	S1-only Visiting Student Exam		2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, command of the body of knowledge considered in the course; demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship; demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material; demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others.

Reading List
W.W.Batstone, "Cicero's construction of consular ethos in the First Catilinarian", Transactions of the American Philological Association 124 (1994), 211-66 W.W.Batstone, "Catiline's speeches in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae", in D.H.Berry and A.Erskine (eds), Form and Function in Roman Oratory (Cambridge, 2010), 227-46 D.H.Berry, Cicero: Pro Sulla (Cambridge, 1996) Cicero: Political Speeches, tr. D.H.Berry (Oxford, 2006) A.Drummond, Law, Politics and Power: Sallust and the Execution of the Catilinarian Conspirators (Historia Einzelscriften 93; Stuttgart, 1995) A.R.Dyck, Cicero: Catilinarians (Cambridge, 2008) B.M.Levick, Catiline (London, 2015) J.T.Ramsey, Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, ed. 2 (New York, 2007) R.J.Seager, "The first Catilinarian conspiracy", Historia 13 (1964), 338-47 D.L.Stockton, Cicero: a Political Biography (Oxford, 1971) R.Syme, Sallust (Berkeley etc., 1964) T.P.Wiseman in J.A.Crook et al. (eds), The Cambridge Ancient History ix2 (Cambridge, 1994), 346-61

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Special Arrangements	In order for a student from outwith Classics to be enrolled, contact must be made with a Course Secretary on 50 3580/3582 in order for approval to be obtained.
Keywords	Catilinarian Conspiracy