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Introduction: Studying Roman Emperors |
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The Emperors and Their Empire |
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Suetonius' Augustus |
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Tacitus and Tacitus' Augustus |
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Tacitus' Nero |
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Suetonius' Nero |
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Reading the Written Emperor |
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Warring images: Octavian, Antony, and Actium |
First paper due |
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Inventing Augustus |
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Shaping Roman Values |
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Golden Prosperity |
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Making Augustan History |
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Nero Makes a Spectacle of Himself |
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Neronian Myth-making |
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Nero Behaving Badly |
Second paper due |
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Nero's Rome |
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Making a Military Mockery |
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Making Imperial History |
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The Reel Nero: Viewing of Quo Vadis? (1951) |
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Nero's Christian Afterlife |
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Mussolini's Augustus |
Outline of final paper due |
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Syme's Augustus |
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Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics |
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Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics (cont.) |
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Viewing of I, Claudius (1976) |
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Conclusion: Whose Emperors? |
Final paper due |
