HUMA 3110: Roman Culture and Society:

The Age of Augustus

 

 

 

           Fri., Sept. 5^th                              Introduction

 

 

              Fri., Sept. 12^th                          Origins, Epic and Empire

 

                            Livy, ‘Rome under the Kings,’ Bk. 1 of the Early History of Rome. (CK)

                            Virgil, Aeneid, Book I.

 

 

              Fri., Sept. 19^th                          Republic in Crisis

             

                            Zanker, 1-31

                            Cicero, Pro Marcello (CK)

             

 

              Fri., Sept. 26^th                          Ides to Actium

 

                            Zanker, 33-65

                            Cicero, Letters (CK)

          Cicero First and Second Philippic (CK)

          Horace, Ode 1.37, Epode 9

 

 

Fri., Oct. 3^rd                           The Republic Restored? Augustus’ Early Reign

         

          Zanker, 65-100.

          Virgil, Eclogues

          Eder, ‘Augustus and the Power of Tradition’ (GL)

          Gruen, ‘Augustus and the Making of the Principate’ (GL)

          Beacham, ‘The Emperor as Impresario: Producing the Pageantry of Power’ (GL)

 

 

 

Fri., Oct. 10^th                        Cultural Renewal

 

          **Essay # 1 is due

 

          Zanker , 100-166

          Virgil, Georgics

          Scheid, ‘Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, and Innovation’ (GL)

 

 

Fri., Oct. 17^th                         The Golden Age

         

          Zanker, 156-162; 167-192

          Horace, Carmen Saeculare

          Kleiner, ‘Semblance and Storytelling in Augustan Rome’ (GL)

 

              Fri., Oct. 24^th                             Love Elegy

                           

                            Propertius, Book One

 

              Fri., Oct. 31^st                              Love and Marriage

                           

                            Propertius, Book Four

                            Treggiari, S. ‘Women in the Time of Augustus,’ in Galinsky, pp.130-147.

                            Roman marriage legislation (Handout)

                            Sulpicia, Carmina (Handout)

 

              Strike: November 6th—Feb 2nd

         

              Friday, Feb. 6^th                        Augustan Households: Families and Slaves

                           

                            Re-Introduction and Review

                            Valerius Maximus, Selections from Course Kit

                            Recommended: Horace, Satire 1.2, 2.7

 

              Friday, Feb. 13^th                     Poetry and Patronage

                           

                            White, ‘Poets in the New Milieu’ in Galinsky

                            Griffin, ‘Augustan Poets and Augustanism’ in Galinsky

                            Horace, Satire 1.9; Epistles 1.7, 1.9. 1.17, 1.18, 2.1; Ode 1.1

 

 

              ESSAY # 2 is now due on Feb. 20^th / PICK UP MID-TERM EXAM

 

 

              Feb. 20^th – Mar. 3^rd: Fall Exam Period

 

 

              Friday, Mar. 6^th                       Rome’s Epic, I

                           

                            Mid-Term Exam is due today

                            Virgil’s Aeneid, Books 1-6

 

             

              Friday, Mar. 13^th                    Rome’s Epic, II

             

                            Virgil’s Aeneid, Books 7-12           

 

 

              Friday, Mar. 20^th                     Epic Changes

             

                            Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 1, 6, 10, 13, 14, 15

                            Galinsky, ‘Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as World Literature’ in Galinsky

 

 

              Friday, Mar. 27^th                    Love, Ovid-Style

 

                            Ovid, Amores 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5; The Art of Love, Books 1, 2, 3

 

 

              Friday, Apr. 3^rd                      Knowledge is Power

                           

                            (Last day to drop Y class without getting a grade)

                            Essay # 3 is due today

         

          Wallace-Hadrill, ‘Mutatio Morum: The Idea of Cultural Revolution’ in Course Kit.

          Vitruvius, Book 1: ‘First Principles and the Layout of Cities’ in Course Kit

          Vitruvius, Book 5: ‘Public Buildings’ in Course Kit

 

 

Friday, Apr. 10^th                Good Friday, no class

 

 

Friday, Apr. 17^th                  Provincial Perspectives

         

          Woolf, ‘Provincial Perspectives’ in Galinsky

          Purcell, ‘Romans in the Roman World’ in Galinksy

          Ovid, Tristia 1.1 (Excerpts from Ovid’s Poetry of Exile, pp. 233-235 in Course Kit)

          Horace, Epistle 1.11

          Propertius, 2.16

 

Friday, Apr. 24^th                  Retrospective 1: The Emperor and the City

        

         Res Gestae (Augustus, a Record of his Accomplishments in the Course Kit)

         Elsner, ‘Inventing Imperium: Texts and the Propaganda of Monuments in Augustan Rome’ in the Course Kit

                         Discussion Leaders: Yevgeni, Scott, Svetlana, Michael

 

         Favro ‘A Walk through Augustan Rome’  in Course Kit  and Favro ‘Making Rome a World City’ in Galinksy

                         Discussion Leaders: Eunice, Elisa

 

              Friday, May 1^st                        Retrospective 2: Biography and History

        

         Suetonius, ‘Augustus, afterward Deified’ in Course Kit

                         Discussion Leaders: Beth, Nicole

 

         Suetonius, ‘Tiberius’ in Course Kit

                         Discussion Leaders: Andrew, Seraphim

 

         Tacitus, ‘From Augustus to Tiberius’ in Course Kit

                         Discussion Leaders: Harrison, Jason

 

 

              Friday, May 8^th                      Retrospective 3: Ovid, the Other Augustan Poet

 

         Ovid, Amores 2

                         Discussion Leaders: Meagan, Andrea

 

         Ovid, Remedia Amoris, or, Cures for Love

                         Discussion Leaders: Cherie, Angie

 

         Ovid, Tristia 2 (Excerpts from Ovid’s Poetry of Exile in Course Kit, pp. 236-244)

                         Discussion Leaders: Anthony, Lisa

 

              Friday, May 15^th                     Retrospective 4: Poetry, Knowledge, Art

 

         Barchiesi, ‘Learned Eyes: Poets, Viewers, Image Makers’ in Galinksy

                         Discussion Leaders: Ewa

 

         Wallace-Hadrill, ‘Mutatas Formas: The Augustan Transformation of Roman Knowledge’ in Galinsky

                         Discussion Leaders: Jaimy

 

         Zanker, Chapter 8 and Conclusion, pp. 297-339

                         Discussion Leaders: Seema, Christina

 

              Thursday, May 21^st              Review

                           

                            Essay #4 is due today

                            Review and Preparation for the Final Exam

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