Cl. Civ. 224/Class. 324:  Culture and Ideology in the Age of Augustus

Course requirements: 8-page research paper, 15-minute panel presentation (w/ partner), midterm, final. 
This course demands 100-140 pages of reading per week and is not for the faint of heart.  Syllabus notation:  & = required text; 1 = on reserve at Reg.  Libr; I =
handed out as a (free) xerox. Grading policy:  Attendance and participation, 10%; panel presentation, 10%; 8-page paper 30%; midterm exam 20%; final exam 30%. 
Late papers will be down-graded a letter grade per day. Attendance policy:  Up to 2 unexcused absences will be tolerated. 

Week 1:  March 31 and April 2 Imago rei publicae:  The “Restoration of the Republic”

Roman readings:  (all in “Restoration” folder on reserve 1)
1.  Augustus, Res Gestae. 
2.  Tacitus, Annals chapter one, sections 1-10. 
3.  Suetonius, Augustus, sections 26-60.
4.  Dio Cassius, 53.11-16; 16.6-17.1
5. Velleius Paterculus, 2.85-90
Contemporary readings:
6.  Galinsky, chapter 2, “The Restoration of the Res publica,” 42-79.  &
7.  Eder, W.  “Augustus and the Power of Tradition:  The Augustan Principate as a Binding Link between Republic and Empire,”
in Between Republic and Empire, 71-122.  1

Week 2:  April 7 and 9: Refiguring history:  Actium and the civil wars

Roman readings:  (All handouts I)
1.  Vergil, Eclogue 4; Aeneid 8.675-728
2.  Horace, Epodes 9
Contemporary readings:
3.  Gruen, Erich.  “Augustus and the Ideology of War and Peace.”  In Winkes (1985), 51-72.  1
4.  Rosenstein, Nathan.  Imperatores victi:  Military Defeat and Aristocratic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic , 54-91. 1
5.  Wallace-Hadrill, “The Myth of Actium,” from Augustan Rome, 1-9.  I
6.  Gurval, R.  “Posteri Negabitis:  Horace and Actium” from Actium and Augustus,  137-65.  1
7.  Quint, D.  “Epic and Empire:  Versions of Actium,”  Epic and Empire, 21-31, 45-46.  1

Week 3:  April 14 and 16: Propaganda and the Arts

Roman readings: 
1.   Vitruvius, Preface to Book 1 of On Architecture.  I
2.   Vergil:  Ekphrases from bks. 1, 6, 8, and 12.  I
3.   Sources in Chisholm, Rome:  The Augustan Age,  187-204.  1
Contemporary readings:
4.   Zanker,  “The Augustan Program of Cultural Renewal,” 101-66 and “The Mythical Foundations of the New Rome,”
167-79, 183-215, 230-38.   &
5.  Galinsky, chapter 3, “Ideas, Ideals, and Values,” only 80-121; chapter 4, “Art and Architecture,” 141-79, 197-224.  &
6.   Kellum, B.  “Sculptural Programs and Propaganda in Augustan Rome:  The Temple of Apollo on the Palatine.”  In R. 
Winkes, ed.  The Age of Augustus, 169-76.  1

Week 4:  April 21 and 23: Religion and the New Regime

Roman readings: 
1.  Sources in Reinhold, The Golden Age of Augustus, 174-86.  I
Contemporary readings:
2.   Zanker, “The Roman Empire of Augustus,” 297-333.  & 
3.   Pollini, J. “Man or God:  Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and the Early Principate,” in Raaflaub and Toher (1990), 334-63.  1
4.   Wallace-Hadrill, A. “God and Man,” in Augustan Rome,  79-97.  1
5.   Galinsky, chapter 6 “Religion,” 288-331.  &

Week 5:  April 28 and 30: Gender and Empire:  Dido, Cleopatra, Cornelia.

Roman readings:
1.  Vergil, Aeneid  book 4; also review passage from book 8, week 2.  1
2.  Propertius, Elegies 4.11; Horace Odes 1.37  I
Contemporary readings:
3.  Bauman, R. A.  “Women in the Augustan Principate,” in Women and Politics in Rome.  1
4.  Hallett, J.  “Queens, Princeps and Women of the Augustan Elite:  Propertius’ Cornelia Elegy and the Res Gestae Divi Augustus,” in Winkes (ibid), 73-88.  1
5.  Wyke, Maria.  “Augustan Cleopatras:  Female Power and Poetic Authority,” in A. Powell (1992), 98-140.  1

Week 6:  May 5 and 7: Pater patriae:  The Arbiter of Morals

Roman readings: 
1.  Sources from Chisholm, Rome:  The Augustan Age, pp. 169-186.  1
2.  Sallust, Catilina  sections 10-11, 47, Jugurtha 41; Lucan 1.160ff. I
Contemporary readings:
4.  Cohen, David.  “The Augustan Law on Adultery:  The Social and Cultural Context.”  In The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present, 109-126.  1
5.  Earl,. Donald  “Morality and Politics” in The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome, 11-43.  1
6.  Wallace-Hadrill, A.  “Love and War,” from Augustan Rome, 63-78.  1

Week 7:  May 12 and 14: Class Hierarchies, Class Breakdown. 

Midterm on Tuesday, May 12

Roman readings.
1.  Sources in Reinhold, The Golden Age of Augustus, 27-33.  I
2.  Sources in Chisholm, Rome:  The Augustan Age, 107-117.  1
Contemporary readings:
3.  Eck, W.  “Senatorial Self-Representation:  Developments in the Augustan Period,”  in Caesar Augustus, 129-168.  1
4.  Brunt, P.A.  “The Role of the Senate in the Augustan Regime,” CQ 34 (1984), 423-44.  1
5.  Barja de Quiroga, P. L.  “Freedman Social Mobility in Roman Italy,” Historia 44 (1995), 327-48. 1

Week 8:  May 19 and 21: Violence, Spectacle, and the Self

Roman readings: 
1.  Shelton, As the Romans Did, pp. 342-44 and sections 331-32, 337-45.  I
2.  Seneca, Epistles 7, 37, 70.  1
3.  Augustus, Res Gestae 22-23.  (from week 1)
Contemporary readings:
4.  Barton, C.  “Despair:  The Scandal of the Arena,” in Sorrows of the Ancient Romans, 1-46.  1
5.   Plass, P.  The Game of Death in Ancient Rome, 15-77.  1
*Papers due on MONDAY May 25th. 

Week 9:  May 26 and 28: Political Opposition to the New Ideology

Roman readings: 
1.  Sources in Reinhold, The Golden Age of Augustus 60-68.  1
Contemporary readings: 
2.  MacMullen, R.  Enemies of the Roman Order, chap. 1  1
3.  Syme, R. The Roman Revolution, chaps. 22, 24-26 1 
4.  Raaflaub, K., and Samons, L.J.  “Opposition to Augustus,” Raaflaub and Toher (1990),  417-54.  1.
5.  Galinksy, K.  “Recent Trends in the Interpretation of the Augustan Age,” The Augustan Age 5 (1986), 22-36.  1

Week 10:  June 2 and 4: The Well-Policed Muse:  Two Case Studies from Ovid

Roman readings: 
1.  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1; Heroides 14 I
Contemporary readings:
2.  Kennedy, D. F. “‘Augustan’ and ‘Anti-Augustan’:  Reflections on Terms of Reference.”  In A. Powell, ed.  Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus, 26-57.  1
3.  Galinksy, chapter 5, “Augustan Literature,” 225-253, 261-269.  &
4.       Davis, P.J.  “Praeceptor Amoris:  Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and the Augustan Idea of Rome,”  Ramus  24 (1995), 181-95.  1
5.  Ellen O’Gorman, “Love and the Family:  Augustus and the Ovidian Legacy.” Arethusa  30 (1997), 103-23.  1