Not currently offered
Course code

AHIS2000

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

The course covers military and social history from the death of Caesar to the death of Augustus; the main focus is on political and social change, and the quality of the main sources on the period.


Availability

Not currently offered.

This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2021.


Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Critique contradictory versions in ancient sources.

2. Evaluate differing versions of major events in a historical period.

3. Identify the development of broad trends in the Augustan period.

4. Analyse major developments in the Augustan period.


Content

The course will introduce students to key evidence for the age of Augustus (from the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the death of Augustus in AD 14), literary, numismatic, inscriptional and archaeological. It will examine the reasons for changes in Roman politics and society brought about by the evolution of an imperial regime from a faltering Republican system. There will also be a focus on developments in the city of Rome that accommodated and represented these changes. Late Republican and Augustan literature will be treated in parallel with historical and societal evidence. Important themes will be explored in the writings of the major litterateurs Cicero, Vergil, Horace, Livy, Propertius and Ovid, and in the works of lesser well-known historical and biographical writers of the period.


Requisite

This course replaces AHIS3110. If you have successfully completed AHIS3110 you cannot enrol in this course.


Assumed knowledge

20 units at 1000 level in AHIS


Assessment items

In Term Test: In-class test - Source analysis test

In Term Test: In-class test - Tutorial Exercise

In Term Test: In-class test - Quiz

Essay: Major Essay

Course outline

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