HI363 Age of Augustus

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Week	Date	Topic	Text	Readings (list of facilitators)
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				Source discussions: some suggestions
				*Dio Cassius' History of Rome* (see books 51-55)**
				The Augustan family (print as landscape)
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1	Jan. 23	Introduction & expectations	HI363 Syllabus
		The Roman Republic	*Recommended: Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome; map of the Mediterranean in 25 BCE*

	Jan. 25	Introduction to the Augustan Age	AC	Introduction: "The Augustan Evolution," pp. 3-9
			CC	Introduction, pp. 1-9
				*D. Shotter, Augustus Caesar* (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 18-83 (skim: text; glossary)**
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2	Jan. 30	Augustus' auctoritas	AC	*Ch. 1: "A Principal Concept: Auctoritas," pp. 10-41*
			CC	Ch. 1: "Augustus and the Power of Tradition,", pp. 13-32
			*Lactor*	Section A, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, pp. 23-35 Section B, The Fasti Consulares as needed

		Directed discussions assignments for week 3 will be made in class today - volunteers welcome. Images to consider (all but one < Scribner Library's Re:discovery database; here's a website on Augustan portraiture from Indiana University we will turn to later): Map: Roma Urbs Imperatorum Aetate (City in the Age of the Emperors): select the panel in the top row, second from the left, for the location of the Mausoleum Divi Augusti) Mausoleum Divi Augusti (extant) Mausoleum Divi Augusti (restored) Prima Porta Augustus (full) Prima Porta Augustus (cuirass) Prima Porta Augusti as displayed in the Vatican Museums (from Wikipedia) Augustus as pontifex maximus
	7-9pm Ladd307	Screen episodes of HBO's Rome: assign response paper #1 (please see the Requirements webpage for details). For those who have conflicting appointments, please arrange to borrow the DVD and return it by Friday noon.

	Feb. 1	Augustus and the res publica	AC	*Ch. 2: "The Restoration of the Res Publica," pp. 42-79*
			*Lactor*	Sect. H, pp. 180-189, H1-H27 (we will return to H18-52 in week 4)

Group discussions: we begin today's class with group work. Each group will meet for fifteen minutes to conduct an assessment of the primary sources (the surviving ancient testimonia); a group recorder will then share the results in a five minute report with the class. The following four groups are to assess how to use the Lactor primary sources as evidence to substantiate the claim that Augustus sought and established his position through auctoritas (substantive power) rather than potestas (transactional power). Calibrate your assessment against the backdrop of the AC and CC readings and the RG. Group 1 (Cassie, David B., Chrissy, Alex S.): H1-H8: (Octavian) as triumvir Group 2 (Cara, Ben F., Alex C., Neil): H9-17: Actium and the aftermath Group 3 (Abby, David H., Ben M., Margaret): H18-H25: Settlement of 28-27 BCE Group 4 (Danielle, Nat, Dan M., Ann): H26-H27: Settlement of 23 BCE The following two groups are to assess how to use the Res Gestae as evidence to substantiate the claim that Augustus sought and established his position through through auctoritas (substantive power) rather than potestas (transactional power). Calibrate your assessment against the backgrop of the AC & CC readings and the primary sources collected in Lactor. Group 5 (Alissa, Chris, Josh; Tom - ill): RG 6-14 Group 6 (Dan W., Susie, Jon, Lela): RG 15-33 After the group reports we will examine RG 1 and 34-35 and AC pp. 42-79 together to see how Augustus articulated precisely what, from 44 to 23 BCE (though the events of 23 are not articulated by him in the RG), he did to lay claim to his substantive power.
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3	Feb. 6	Augustus and the historians	AC	Ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 280-287
Lela Ilyinsky Dan Walfield Ben Matthews			Lactor	Sects. D-F, pp. 54-94 (note: print out this file - 41pp. and nearly 5 megabytes)
				Hand in response paper #1
		Writing history: Essay assigned

	Feb. 8	Augustus and Suetonius		*Suetonius Life of Augustus* (read this .pdf file in its entirety)**
Susie Warden Matthew Knight David Baker
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4	Feb. 13	Augustus as princeps	CC	Ch. 2: "Augustus and the Making of the Principate," pp. 33-51
Tom Pettit Jon Hunsberger Dan Walfield			*Lactor*	Sect. H, pp. 185-202, H18-52

	Feb. 15	Augustan ideology	AC	Ch. 3: "Ideas, Ideals and Values," pp. 81-100
Ben Matthews Lela Ilyinsky David Heyman			CC	*Ch. 3: "Mutatas Formas," pp. 55-62, 65-76*
		Roman calendar (good for finding out what today would have been in the Roman calendar) *Three images of the fasti* from the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum Calendar of Antium (pre-45 BCE) Examples of declamatory exercises (suasoriae and controversiae)** E. Fantham, "Cicero, Varro and M. Claudius Marcellus," Phoenix 31 (1977) 208-13 [consuetudo (usage) vs. ratio / analogia (regularisation in language)] Text of clupeus virtutis found at Arles, dating to 26 BCE (AC fig. 37 p. 87): Senatus populusque Romanus Imp(eratori) Caesari Divi F(ilio) Augusto co(n)s(ulo) VIII [= octavo] dedit clupeum virtutis clementiae iustitiae pietatis erga deos patriamque.
		Writing history: Essay due
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5	Feb. 20	Continuation from Thurs., led by Ben Matthews	CC	*Ch. 3: "Mutatas Formas," pp. 55-62, 65-76*
		The Augustan family (print as landscape)	AC	Ch. 3: "Ideas, Ideals and Values," pp. 128-140
Margaret Drake Cassie Allen Chrissy Bach		-or-	CC	Ch. 6: "Women in the Time of Augustus," pp. 130-147
		Come to class as your favorite family member	*Lactor*	Sect. J, pp. 203-227; Sect. P1-18; Sect. S pp. 354-355, S1-29

	Feb. 22	Religion in the age of Augustus	AC	Ch. 3: "Ideas, Ideals and Values," pp. 100-106; ch. 6, "Religion," pp. 288-322
Ben Fairbank Abby Cohen Josh Cipolla			CC	*Ch. 3: "Mutatas Formas," pp. 62-65; ch. 8, "Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, and Innovation," pp. 175-193*
			*Lactor*	Sect. L, pp. 258-279
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6	Feb. 27	Augustan state art as an ideological vehicle: Ara Pacis	AC	Ch. 3: "Ideas, Ideals and Values," pp. 106-121; ch. 4, "Art and Architecture," pp. 141-155
Alex Cummings Chris Bendann Susie Warden			*Lactor*	Sect. K13-14
	7-9pm TLC307	*Screen BBC's I, Claudius:* Episode 1: "A Touch of Murder" (50 mins.) Episode 2: "Family Affairs" (50 mins.) Assign response paper #2: critique I, Claudius from an historical perspective, drawing on the literary sources for points of comparison. Which characteristics of the family members ring true, and which ones hollow? If you were a filmmaker with an unlimited budget, what would you do differently in your portrayal of Augustus and his family?

	Mar. 1	Portraiture & ideology: Prima Porta Augustus	AC	Ch. 4: "Art and Architecture," pp. 155-179 Roman Forum site at Univ. of Chicago
Neil Bornstein Danielle Staubitz Alex Shapiro				Begin exploring possible final project topics
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7	Mar. 6	Art and narrative in the Augustan Age	CC	Ch. 9, "Semblance and Storytelling in Augustan Rome," pp. 197-233
Tom Pettit Cassie Allen Ben Fairbank		Conducting research: "Introducing the Book"
	7-9pm TLC307	*Screen BBC's I, Claudius:* Episode 3: "Waiting in the Wings" (48 mins.) Episode 4: "What Shall We Do About Claudius?" (49 mins.) Hand in response paper #2 (we will watch the episode containing Augustus' death - Episode 5: "Poison is Queen" (48 mins.) - at some point late in the semester).

	Mar. 8	Constructing the city: Augustan architecture and urban planning	AC	Ch. 4: "Art and Architecture," pp. 197-224
Alissa de Vogel Josh Cipolla Nat Osborn			CC	*Ch. 3: "Mutatas Formas," pp. 76-84; ch. 10, "Making Rome a World City," pp. 234-263*
			*Lactor*	Sect. K1-12, 15-73
				Submit Interlibrary Loan requests no later than this date
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8	Mar. 13-15: Spring Break
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9	Mar. 20	Intro. to Golden Age literature	AC	Ch. 3: "Ideas, Ideals and Values," pp. 90-100, 121-128; ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 225-244
Chris Bendann Alex Cummings Cara Bonnington			CC	Ch. 12: "Learned Eyes: Poets, Viewers, Image Makers," pp. 281-305
			*Lactor*	Sect. G, pp. 95-99; Sect. R1-13, 16-27

	Mar. 22	Vergil	AC	Ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 244-253
Alissa de Vogel Nat Osborn David Baker			CC	*Ch. 13: "Augustan Poetry and Augustanism," pp. 306-312; ch. 15, "Vergil's Aeneid* and Ovid's Metamorphoses as World Literature," pp. 340-351**
			*Lactor*	Sect. G1-2, 8-12, 37-38; R15
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10	Mar. 27	Horace	AC	Ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 253-261
Matt Knight Jon Hunsberger Neil Bornstein			CC	Ch. 13: "Augustan Poetry and Augustanism," pp. 312-313; ch. 14, "Poets in the New Milieu: Realigning," pp. 321-339
			*Lactor*	Sect. G3-7, 21-29, 34-35, 41-46; R14

	Mar. 29	Ovid	AC	Ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 261-269
Margaret Drake Dan Moran Danielle Staubitz			CC	*Ch. 15, "Vergil's Aeneid* and Ovid's Metamorphoses as World Literature," pp. 351-358**
			*Lactor*	Sect. G47-56
				Final project: topic statement and annotated bibliography due
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11	Apr. 3	Elegy: Tibullus and Propertius	AC	Ch.5, "Augustan Literature," pp. 269-279
Chrissy Bach Cara Bonnington Abby Cohen			CC	Ch. 13: "Augustan Poetry and Augustanism," pp. 314-320
			*Lactor*	Sect. G13-19, 30-33, 39

	Apr. 5	Romanization	AC	Ch. 6: "Religion," pp. 322-331
Dan Moran Alex Shapiro David Heyman			CC	Ch. 4: "Romans in the Roman World," pp. 85-105; ch. 5, "Provincial Perspectives," pp. 86-129
				Final project: outline and updated annotated bibliography due
			*Lactor*	Sect. M, pp. 280-310
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12	Apr. 10	No class

	Apr. 12	Rome straddles the world	AC	Ch. 7: "Central Characteristics," pp. 332-375
Arnush flies solo			*Lactor*	Sect. N, pp. 311-330
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13	Apr. 17	Final presentations

	Apr. 19	Final presentations

	Apr. 20	**Parilia: A Celebration of Undergraduate Classical Scholarship: Hamilton College, Clinton, New York**
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14	Apr. 24	Final presentations		Final project: draft and final annotated bibliography due

	Apr. 26	Final presentations
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15	May 1	Reflections: Augustan Age	AC	*Ch. 8: "Epilogue: Auctor Perpetuus," pp. 376-389*

	May 4	Final project due
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16	May 8	Final Exam: 9am-noon
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	Unused chapters
	Constructing the home: domestic settings		AC	Ch. 11: "Augustan Domestic Interiors: Propaganda or Fashion?" pp. 264-278
			CC	Ch. 4: "Art and Architecture," pp. 179-197
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