Your Name: PARTIAL SAMPLE

POPULUS ROMANUS PHASE ONE: Profile Page

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Your Figure: Octavia

Annotated List of References: Provide citations as you would for a paper. Then
underneath each citation, identify whether the source is a primary source or a second
source. Briefly describe the information in the source and explain how it might be useful
to you. If appropriate, identify the location of relevant information.

Note: You must consult a minimum of three sources for this project, and at least one must
be a primary source. The more primary sources, the better! (The number of primary
sources for a figure will vary from one to several.)

1) "Oct via" Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World. Ed. John Roberts. Oxford University Press,
2007.
Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Roland Park Country School. 6 March
20 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?
subview=Main&entry=t180.e1529.

Description: This secondary source provides a short biographical account of

Octavia’s life.

2) Iglesias, Julio. Antony and Cleopatra. New York: Musicians’ Press, 1976.

Description: This secondary source provides information about the relationship

between Octavia and Antony (p. 24, 36-41).

3) “The Life of Antony.” Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Loeb Classical Library edition,
Vol. IX, 1920. Lacus Curtius. Ed. Bill Thayer. March 6, 2008
<
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.htm
l>.

Description: This primary source provides a great amount of information on

Octavia. It discusses Octavia’s relationship with Octavian, the decision to marry her to
Antony, and the wedding itself (Ch. 31). It also relates Octavia’s attempts to prevent war
between her brother and her husband (Ch. 35).

(And so on)