Internet Links
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
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)
Week 2 - Horace
- 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
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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)
Private Art
- Pompeian wall-painting: Aeneas and Anchises leaving Troy
- Pompeian wall-painting: The wounded Aeneas
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
Week 8 - Empire
- Monument at La Turbie: pictures
- Herod's Building Projects
- Foreign Wars
Administration of the Provinces
- Strabo on Augustan Egypt
- Strabo on the Augustan division of the provinces
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
Week 3 - Mussolini
- 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
Meroe Head of Augustus: BBC R4 'History of the World in 100 Objects' - Neil MacGregor/ British museum (first broadcast May 2010) - BBC i-player
