AHIS2000
10 units
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
Course outline not yet available.
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