AUTUMN TERM 2011

Week 1

• Mon 03/10: No lecture
• Fri 07/10: Julius Caesar, villain or victim?

Week 2

• Mon 10/10: Dividing up the World: the Triumvirate of ‘Octavian’, Antony, and Lepidus
• Fri 14/10: The Battle of Actium: mirage and reality

Week 3

• Mon 17/10: The Aftermath of Actium
• Fri 21/10: Antony and Cleopatra [Seminars at 12-13 and 14-15 in H3.56]

Week 4

• Mon 24/10: Responses to Civil Crisis
• Fri 28/10: The pre-eminence of Augustus

Week 5

• Mon 31/10: Revival and innovation in religious cults
• Fri 04/11: The Centennial Games [Seminars at 12-13 and 14-15 in H3.56]

Week 6: READING WEEK

Week 7

• Mon 14/11: Social legislation: the re-ordering of society
• Fri 18/11: Augustus and the Senate

Week 8

• Mon 21/11: Consolidating the equestrian order
• Fri 25/11: Opposition to Augustus

Week 9

• Mon 28/11: Imperial Household
• Fri 02/12: Imperial Women [Seminars at 12-13 and 14-15 in H3.56]

Week 10

• Mon 05/12: Augustus and the City of Rome
• Fri 09/12: No lecture - return of essays

SPRING TERM 2012

Week 1

• Mon 09/01: Poetry and Politics 1 (Propertius)
• Fri 13/01: Poetry and Politics 2 (Horace and Minor Poets)
  

Week 2

• Mon 16/01: Poetry and Politics 3 (Ovid)
• Fri 20/01: Power of Images (1): coins

Week 3

• Mon 23/01: Power of Images (2): statues
• Fri 27/01:‘Official’ art, and its impact on private art

Week 4

• Mon 30/01: Worshipping the emperor (1)
• Fri 03/02: Worshipping the emperor (2)

Week 5

• Mon 06/02: The Succession
• Fri 10/02: Worshipping the emperor [Seminar 12-13, 14-15 in H3.56]

Week 6: READING WEEK

Week 7

• Mon 20/02: The creation of a professional army
• Fri 24/02: ‘Empire without a boundary’

Week 8

• Mon 27/02: Administration of the Provinces

• Fri 02/03: No lecture: return of essays

Week 9

• Mon 05/03: Urbanization and Colonization
• Fri 09/03: Res Gestae [Seminar 12-13; 14-15 in H3.56]

Week 10

• Mon 12/03: Augustan Histories (Nikolaos; Livy; Strabo)
• Friday 16/03: Suetonius’ Life of Augustus

SUMMER TERM 2012

Week 1: Augustus and the Greek East - Aphrodisias and Ephesos

Week 2: The legacy of Augustus

Week 3: No lecture: bank holiday

Week 4: Revision