I am Sparticus!

So, as promiced, here is what my friends had to say about the link:

Sonje: Guy modded car to look like chariot with horse. or was it a motorcycle.. i can't tell. 
Me: Yea. I would totally do that.
Don: You mean, that wasn't you?
Amanda: I think you should go for it. I'll bet Phil would help.Amanda... 
Me: Dear Amanda... You forgot to carry the wife in your equations.
Sonje: If Phil does it for free, and she doesn't have to ride, and you wear a disguise, then what's the problem?
Amanda: I'm sure there's room in that chariot for two. She could go with a whole Boudicca outfit....it'd be great.
Summer: I call event manager. Tickets start at $45. Somebody come up with some merch?
Don: I can just see her standing on the curb, shouting, "Remember, thou art mortal!" at you as you go by.

Catiline chronotes

·    66 BCE—Cataline returns to Rome from Africa

o   First Cataline conspiracy

·        Summer 64—Cicero defeats Cataline for the consulship

·        1 Jan 63—Cicero enters office

o   Economic crisis with Pompy’s war in the East

o   Land reform proposed

§  The “Ten Kings”

·        Spring 63—Cicero proposes raising penalties for election fraud and bribery

o   Second plot begins

·        Summer 63—Cicero informed of plot by Terentia

o   Denounces Cataline in the senate

o   Cataline loses election for consol and widens the plot from just a political party to an outright coup

·        20 October 63—Crassus betrays the plot to Cicero

o   Manlius’s revolt in the countryside

·        6 November 63—Cataline calls meeting of the conspirators

o   Actually makes a list of those to die and how to burn the city

·        8 November 63—Cicero denounces Cataline AGAIN

o   Cataline exiled—Goes to Manlius

§  Both declared public enemies

·        2 December 63—Remaning conspirators trapped in a manufactured plot

·        3 December 63—Five remaining conspirators executed

o   “They have lived!”

o   Cicero declared Pater Patriae

·        January 62—Forces of Marcus Antonius (senior) overwhelm Cataline and Manlius

                                              

Annotated bibliography

I have been getting a lot of questions about what the heck an annotated bibliography looks like.  I will be passing out examples tomorrow, but here is a sample from a paper I wrote some years ago in graduate school:

McGinn, Bernard.  “Introduction: John’s Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality.”  In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 3-19.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Bernard McGinn’s chapter provides the reader with a three-fold introduction to the book.  First, McGinn deals with the Jewish eschatological tradition of the Second Temple period that John emerges from.  He describes how most Jewish Apocalypses fall into either a vertical (cosmic) or horizontal (historic/temporal) revelatory models.  Second, McGinn describes how John both couches himself in and breaks from this tradition.  Third, how John and his work have been received and analyzed.  McGinn details the three major modes of apocalyptic exegesis in the middle ages: linear-prophetic (details history between John and the End), non-linear theological treatise favored by Augustine, and the cyclic or repetitive (a series of complex and repetitive patterns before the End) forwarded by Joachim of Fiore.  McGinn closes on the note that these were an attempt to domesticate the Apocalypse to fit a more spiritual model of the Early Church.