TERM 1

Week 1 - Julius Caesar

• Suetonius' Life of the Deified Iulius (translation)
• Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar
• Dio Cassius Books 43 - 44
• Cicero Ad Familiares 9.15; 7.30; Ad Atticum 13.37
• Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
• Caesar's Monuments, from Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: look up Forum Iulium, Saepta Iulia, Basilica Iulia
• Coin commemorating the Ides of March, 43/42 BC
• An Annotated Guide to Online Resources

Week 2 – Caesar’s legacy

• Aureus of Octavian and Julius Caesar
• Article on Caesarion on Wikipedia
• Short biography of Caesarion

Octavian the triumvir

• Cicero Ad Familiares 11.20; Ad Atticum 16.8
• Laudatio Turiae
• Coins: 44-42 BC: War of Vengeance against the Liberators; 41-38 BC: Shifting alliances; Protagonists of the War in Perusia (Northern Italy), 41 BC; Octavian and Antony "kiss and make up"; 38-36 BC: Last of the Pompeians

Week 3 - Actium

• Horace, Odes 1.37
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony - see chapters 60-69
• Images relating to the battle, including a map of the site.
• Coins: 36-31 BC: Final Showdown; Coinage of Antony and Cleopatra; Coinage of Octavian

Week 4 - The Aftermath of Actium

• Hellenic Ministry of Culture’s official site on Nikopolis.
• Coins celebrating victory over Egypt: 'Coinage of Octavian'
• Arch in the Forum? - Platner and Ashby; key article on the Forum by N. Purcell
• Temple of Apollo on the Palatine - Platner and Ashby; overall view; plan
• Coins: 31-27 BC: Triumph and Reinvention of Octavian as Augustus

The Pre-eminence of Augustus

• Summary of so-called '1st' & '2nd Settlements'
• The Augustan Settlement
• Honours and titles of Octavian/Augustus

Week 5 - Religion

• 'Roman religion', N. Pollard (BBC)

Week 7 - Social Legislation

• Legal status in the Roman world (Lefkowitz and Fant sourcebook, Women's Life in Greece and Rome)
• Some Augustan legislation

Augustus and the Senate

• Cyrene Edicts
• Overview of Augustus, Senate, Power

Week 8 - Equestrians

• Pliny the Elder on Augustus' reforms

Opposition to Augustus

• Table of conspiracies against Augustus
• Cornelius Gallus: outline of life

Week 10 – City of Rome

• Building Projects in Rome in Augustus' time
• Strabo on Augustan Rome
• S. Platner and T. Ashby (1929) A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. (Oxford University Press: London), also available here
• Gary Bruegemann’s maps of Rome
• The Archaeology of the Forum and the Palatine hill

TERM 2

Week 1 - Imperial household

• Family tree of the Julio-Claudians with clickable links to biographies
• Another family tree (admirably simplified!)

Propertius

• Horace, Propertius, Ovid notes
• Properties, Elegies (book 1 only)

• Biography of Horace at Diotima
• Horace, Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
• Horace, Carmina (Odes)
• Horace, Carmen Saeculare (hymn for the Ludi Saeculares) and Anchises’ ‘prediction’ of Augustus in Virgil’s Aeneid
• Horace, Satires
• Horace, Odes, Satires, Ars Poetica and Epistles
• Horace, Epodes 2, 3, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15

Week 3 - Ovid

• E-book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Ovid (John Porter, University of Saskatchewan)
• Notes on and selections from Ovid’s Amores at Diotima
• Ovid, Amores (partial translation)
• Ovid, Ars Amatoria
• Ovid, Heroides (Heroic Epistles)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses
• Ovid, On the Painting of the Face

Imperial women

• David Noy on Livia (from his ‘Women in the Roman World’ course)

• Livia on De Imperatoribus Romanis

• Livia on the Feminae Romanae site

WEEK 4 - Coins

• Coins illustrating Augustus' rise to power

Statues

• Portrait gallery for images of Augustus
• Augustus: images of power (Mausoleum, Prima Porta, Ara Pacis, Gemma Augustea)

WEEK 5 - Emperor worship

• Translation online of Plutarch, Flamininus
• Sample chapter - Introduction to I. Gradel, Emperor Worship (2002)
• Emperor worship overview

WEEK 7 - Army

• Portus Iulius (G. Camodeca)
• The colony of Aosta (Augusta Praetoria): entry by E.T. Salmon in the Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites
• Gemma Augustea
• Tombstone of Marcus Caelius, killed in Varus disaster
• Overview of Roman military

• Monument at La Turbie: pictures
• Herod's Building Projects
• Foreign Wars

WEEK 9 – Rome and Italy

• Bill Thayer’s Gazetteer of Italy (much on the surviving monuments of Roman Italy, but includes post-Roman material too).
• Pliny the Elder on Italy
• Article on Italian terra sigillata

Urbanization

• Italian colonies of Julius Caesar and Augustus
• Corinth Computer Project (University of Pennsylvania)

‘Romanisation’

• Review of S. Alcock (1993) Graecia Capta: the landscapes of Roman Greece in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEEK 10 - Res gestae

• Problematics of Making Ambiguity Explicit in Virtual Reconstructions: A Case Study of the Mausoleum of Augustus, J. Pollini et al.
• Exhibition on Pisidian Antioch at Kelsey Museum, 'Building a New Rome'

TERM 3

Week 1 – Augustan histories

• Online translation of Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus
• Livy, History of Rome, or here.
• Periochae of Livy
• Strabo’s Geography

Suetonius’ Life of Augustus

• Online translation of Suetonius, Life of Augustus

Week 2 - The succession

• Portraits of Augustus and the imperial family

Augustus’ successors

• Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (see esp. chapter 10-11)
• English tranlsation of the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani
• Image of the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani
• Hadrian’s Mausoleum

• Restoration of the Altar of Peace: Ancient Symbol and New Centre of Rome
• Contemporary Photos (scroll down the page to 'Figures from Kostof') - Mausoleum, Piazza del Augusto Imperatore
• Transforming Aug's Mausoleum
• 19th/20th century Rome
• Foro italico; the obelisk - photo of putting it up
• Facade of Palazzo delle Esposizioni for the 'Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution', 1932
• Facade of Palazzo delle Esposizioni for the 'Augustan Exhibition of Romanness' 1937
• Catalogue of 'Exhibition of Colonial Art' 1931