The Augustan Ideal (CL0170)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-CL0170

This course explores how Augustus, his achievements and his aspirations were portrayed in his own time. The primary focus is on contemporary poetry, but artistic and monumental evidence will also be considered. Augustus' presentation of himself in the Res Gestae provides a useful point of reference for the examination of religious, political and moral issues. The course is mainly arranged synchronically; but due attention is paid to chronological developments over the five decades which Augustus dominated.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs Only

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should
- have a good knowledge of a range of Augustan poetry and an understanding of its relation to the political and social questions of the time;
- be able to correlate different kinds of evidence (textual and visual, literary and epigraphic);
- be aware of the importance of patronage (public and personal) and of genre and convention in assessing poetic and artistic evidence;
- have a critical understanding of some of the main issues of interpretation in current scholarship;
- have presented, orally and in writing, reasoned argument and analysis, based on primary evidence and appropriate secondary reading.