HI363 Age of Augustus

Week	Date	Topic	Readings: source discussions
1	9/9	Introduction	Timeline The Augustan family (print as landscape) The Death of Augustus (various sources) Statue
2	9/14	Roman Republic Sources History Culture	Map of the Mediterranean in 25 BCE Overview of the Republic From Republic to Empire: Julius Caesar: Historical Background Antony, Octavian, Cleopatra: End of the Republic The Perspective of Cicero Essay 1: assignment
	9/16	Augustan Age	AC pp. 3-9, "The Augustan Evolution" CC pp. 1-9, "Introduction"
3	9/21	*Auctoritas*	*AC pp. 10-41, "A Principal Concept: Auctoritas"* CC pp. 13-32, "Augustus & the Power of Tradition" Augustus' consulships
	9/23	Autobiography	Lac *pp. 23-35, Res Gestae Divi Augusti* (on-line text) Comparanda (to be handed out in class): Suetonius and Dio Cassius (no need to read in advance)**
4	9/28	Yom Kippur	No class
4	9/30	*Res publica*	AC pp. 42-79, *"The Restoration of the Res Publica"* Lac pp. 180-189, H1-H27 Essay 1: due
		Historians	AC pp. 280-287, "Augustan Literature" Essay 2: assignment
5	10/5	Values Historians pt. 2 Literary figures	Lac pp. 54-94 (esp. section F, Tac. Annals 1.1-15) Dio Cassius History of Rome (books 45-56 treat all of Augustus' life and career; consult as needed)
	10/7	Suetonius Suet. Augustus & Aug. Res Gestae	Suetonius Life of Augustus
6	10/12	Suetonius pt. 2 Suet. Augustus & Aug. Res Gestae	Suetonius Life of Augustus Prof. Dan Curley on reading Suetonius
	10/14	Augustus princeps	CC pp. 33-51, "Augustus & the Making of the Principate" Lac pp. 185-202, H18-52 Essay 2 due
7	10/19	Ideology	AC pp. 81-100, "Ideas, Ideals and Values" CC pp. 52-62, 65-76, "Mutatas Formas" Portland Vase (British Museum)
	10/21	Ideology pt. 2	AC pp. 128-140, "Ideas, Ideals and Values" CC pp. 52-62, 65-76, "Mutatas Formas" (cont.)
8	10/26	Family Class meets in BI room, Library (1st floor)	CC pp. 130-147, "Women in the Time of Augustus" Lac pp. 203-227; P1-18; S1-29
	10/28	Religion	AC pp. 100-106; pp. 288-322, "Religion" CC pp. 62-65; pp. 175-193, "Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, & Innovation" Lac pp. 258-279
9	11/2	Golden Age lit.	AC pp. 90-100, 121-128, "Ideas, Ideals and Values"; pp. 225-244, "Augustan Literature" CC pp. 281-305, "Learned Eyes: Poets, Viewers, Image Makers" Lac pp. 95-99; R1-13, 16-27 Final project: topic statement/ann. biblio. due
	11/4	Vergil	AC pp. 244-253, "Augustan Literature" CC pp. 306-312, "Augustan Poetry & Augustanism"; pp. 340-351, "Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses as World Literature" Lac G1-2, 8-12, 37-38; R15
10	11/9	Vergil	ibid.
	11/11	Horace	AC pp. 253-261, "Augustan Literature" CC pp. 312-313, "Augustan Poetry & Augustanism"; pp. 321-339, "Poets in the New Milieu: Realigning" Lac G3-7, 21-29, 34-35, 41-46; R14
11	11/16	Ovid Film?	AC pp. 261-269, "Augustan Literature" CC pp. 351-358, "Vergil's Aeneid & Ovid's Metamorphoses" Lac G47-56
	11/18	Ara Pacis, Prima Porta, art & narrative	AC pp. 141-179, "Art and Architecture" CC pp. 197-233, "Semblance and Storytelling in Augustan Rome" Lac K13-14 Roman Forum site at Univ. of Chicago
12	11/23	Architecture & urban planning	AC pp. 197-224, "Art and Architecture" (review) CC *pp. 76-84, "Mutatas Formas"; pp. 234-263, "Making Rome a World City"* Lac K1-12, 15-73
	11/25	Thanksgiving	No class
13	11/30	Romanization	AC pp. 322-331, "Religion" CC pp. 85-105, "Romans in the Roman World"; pp. 106-129, "Provincial Perspectives" Lac pp. 280-310
	12/1	NOT A CLASS	Final project: rough draft due
	12/2	Rome straddles the world Evaluations	*AC pp. 363-375, "Central Characteristics: Tradition and Innovation"; pp. 376-389, "Epilogue: Auctor Perpetuus"* Lac pp. 311-330 (skim)
14	12/7	Final presentation	Special class time: 4-6.30pm Julia Dauer on family values / state narrative
	12/9	Final presentation	Special class time: 4-6.30pm Sophie Rotter on the Gemma Augustea Darnell Sessoms on the Prima Porta Amanda Paret on the Campus Martius David Ornvold & Jess Neubelt on Augustan Rome