About CLAS 420

Course: CLAS 420 - Freedom in Ancient Rome and the Modern World

Professor: Dr. Joseph Bringman

Dates: Sp. 2025

Texts:

• Volume 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by
  • By Orlando Patterson (required)
  • Basic Books 1992
• Cicero. The Republic and the Laws
  • Rudd, N., trans./Powell, J. edit. (2009)
  • Oxford World Classics

Additional readings of Plato, Cicero, Livy, Horace, Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Epictetus, Appian, Marcus Aurelius, Cassius Dio, St. Augustine, etc.