Syllabus

The proposed/provisional syllabus for 25/26 is below.

Autumn term

Week 1: Introduction / The reign of Antoninus Pius
Week 2: The reign of Marcus Aurelius / The Antonine Plague
Week 3: Commodus / In praise of the 'Golden Age': Panegyric, Aristides and Fronto
Week 4: The Civil War of AD 193 / Essay Writing Workshop
Week 5: The reign of Septimius Severus / The Severan transformation of Lepcis Magna
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7:The reign of Caracalla / Roman citizenship and the Constitutio Antoniniana
Week 8: Elagabalus / Imperial women
Week 9: Severus Alexander / Severan literature
Week 10: The Historia Augusta / The Severan Transformation of Rome

Two seminars (on TWO of the following topics: 'Did Severus Alexander win the Persian War?', 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius', 'The reception of Septimius Severus and Elagabalus').

An additional one hour session will be scheduled discussing the exhibition assignment for those undertaking this module as 15 CATS.

Spring term

Week 1: Maximinus to Gordian III / Was there a 'third century crisis?'

Week 2: The reign of Philip I / Examining private monuments

Week 3: Trajan Decius to Aemilian: changes in imperial representation / Saecular festivals

Week 4: Third century coinage / Valerian

Week 5: Gallienus to Quintullus / Damnatio memoriae and Roman memory

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Shapur I and the victory monument at Naqš-i Rustam / Aurelian

Week 8: Tacitus to Carinus / Diocletian and the Tetrarchy

Week 9: Constantine / Literature of Late Antiquity

Week 10: Constantine in text and image / Cities of Late Antiquity

Seminars (2x2 hours) will focus on the development of an exhibition display for the Antiquities Room which will be created and put on display in connection to the module.

Summer Term

Term 3: Week 1: Assignment discussion

Week 2: Drop in assignment support

Week 1: Assignment discussion

Week 2: Exhibiting Antiquity

Week 3: Drop in Questions