The Making of a Roman Emperor

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction: Studying Roman Emperors
2	The Emperors and Their Empire
3	Suetonius’ Augustus
4	Tacitus and Tacitus’ Augustus
5	Tacitus’ Nero
6	Suetonius’ Nero
7	Reading the Written Emperor
8	Warring images: Octavian, Antony, and Actium	First paper due
9	Inventing Augustus
10	Shaping Roman Values
11	Golden Prosperity
12	Making Augustan History
13	Nero Makes a Spectacle of Himself
14	Neronian Myth-making
15	Nero Behaving Badly	Second paper due
16	Nero’s Rome
17	Making a Military Mockery
18	Making Imperial History
19	The Reel Nero: Viewing of Quo Vadis? (1951)
20	Nero’s Christian Afterlife
21	Mussolini’s Augustus	Outline of final paper due
22	Syme’s Augustus
23	Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics
24	Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics (cont.)
25	Viewing of I, Claudius (1976)
26	Conclusion: Whose Emperors?	Final paper due