Dr. T. Keith Dix
Park Hall 236; 542-2195 email: tkdix(at)uga.edu
WIP TA: Matt Wineski
Preceptor: Eric Verhine

Welcome to the web site for CLAS 4300: Reacting to the Past: Rome. This web site is designed to serve as a basic reference tool for students enrolled in this course; it is not designed to substitute for class attendance, participation, and homework.

Course Description:

CLAS 4300: 3 hours. “Reacting to the Past” seeks to introduce students to major ideas and texts. It uses a “role playing” format to replicate the historical context in which these ideas acquired significance. Students run all game sessions; instructors advise factions and grade oral and written work. At the end of each game portion, in a series of post-mortem explorations, instructors set forth what did happen historically and compare "real" history to what happened in the classroom version.

Beware the Ides of March recreates the struggle for power and control of Rome that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar. The game begins immediately after the assassination, and most of the action takes place in the Senate, which is required to deal with various threats to order in the city and in the empire. Students are divided into two principal factions, “Caesarians” and “Republicans.” Some students will have indeterminate roles as non-partisan (or at least uncommitted) members of the Senate.

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