LECTURES AND SEMINARS FOR ALL STUDENTS

Term 1

Week 1

• Introduction to the Module: Questions, Themes, Methods
• Becoming Caesar

Week 2

• Dividing up the World: the Triumvirate of Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus
• Responses to Civil Crisis

Week 3

• The Battle of Actium: mirage and reality
• Seminar Debate: Antony and Cleopatra

Week 4

• The Aftermath of Actium
• Revival and innovation in religious cults

Week 5

• Negotiation and the Consolidation of Augustus’ Power
• Seminar Presentations: The Ludi Saeculares

Week 6 READING WEEK – No lectures

Week 7

• Social legislation: the re-ordering of society
• Augustus and the Senate

Week 8

• The Equestrian Order
• Seminar Presentations: Friends of Augustus

Week 9

• Opposition to Augustus
• Familia Caesaris and the Imperial Court

Week 10

• Imperial Women
• Xmas Quiz

Term 2

• Augustus and the city of Rome
• Power of Images

Week 2

• Professionalization of the army
• Empire without end

Week 3

• Ruling the provinces

• Seminar Presentations: Res Gestae - a provincial view

Week 4

• Poetry and Politics: Horace and Minor Poets

• Poetry and Politics: Ovid

Week 5

• Augustan Histories

• Seminar Debate: Augustus and the poets

Week 6 READING WEEK – No lectures

Week 7

• Worshipping the emperor

• Worshipping the emperor

Week 8

• Suetonius' Biography

• Seminar Presentations: Augustan ideology on coins

Week 9

• Official art and its impact on private art

• Urbanization

Week 10

• The Succession
• Il duce's Augustus

Term 3

Weeks 1-3: Revision Classes

SYLLABUS: LATIN TEXT OPTION FOR Q800/QQ36/Q802 STUDENTS

Virgil, Aeneid Book 8; Suetonius Life of Augustus, Res Gestae divi Augusti