Writing & Presenting Augustus

1. Valete! Writing & Presenting Augustus

2. Rough and final drafts • Both written versions should include • Title page, your name, the course, and the appropriate date • 15-20 additional pages of prose: 1” margins, 12 point type, paginated, stapled • All Latin (or Greek) terms in italics; capitalize only proper nouns • Footnotes that adhere to the system we used earlier this semester – see the syllabus and scholarship for examples • Works Cited page, without annotations, alphabetized by author’s last name, including only those secondary pieces of scholarship that are cited in your paper, and no primary sources. Do not distinguish between “print” and electronic articles/books, but include URLs and date of access if material is gleaned from websites (.edu, .org) • A paper carefully proofread for typographical and grammatical errors. Presentations • Time: plan on 12 minutes plus 5 minutes of Q&A • Handout • Your name, project title, date, course • Thesis • Any quoted primary sources you want us to consider • Works Cited page. • If you will use PowerPoint, you must send it to me no later than 11.30am on the day of your presentation.

3. 4/19 No class Final project: rough draft due at 2pm, Ladd 209 (my office) • 4/20 Friday Parilia, 10.30am-12.00pm, lunch, 1-2.30 (EML), 3.30-5, dinner (Surrey) • 4/24 *Emily Kowal Horace’s 4th book of Odes and the independence of Augustan poets • 4/24 Chris Rahimi Vergil’s Ecl. 4, Horace’s Odes 4.15 & Augustus’ relationship with poets • 4/24 *Emily Levenson Vergil Aeneid 8, the “Shield of Aeneas” and Augustus’ ambitions • 4/24 *Torie Burmeister Aeneas as the exemplum pietatis for Augustus • 4/26 *Stormie Romero Cosmos in the Augustan schema • 4/26 *Alissa Belcastro Livia’sauctoritas in the Augustan age • 4/26 Tory Bennett Livia (and perhaps Julia) and the Augustan family • 4/26 *Shannon DuBois Octavia and the Augustan family • 5/1 Doug Hamilton Ovid, exile and Augustus’ relationship with poets • 5/1 Lucy Huang Augustus’ social legislation and the Ovid’s ArsAmatoria • 5/1 John Maher Augustus, Ovid and Apollo • 5/4 (Friday) Final project: final draft due at 2pm, Ladd 209 (my office) • 5/8 Rowley Amato Disaster in the Teutoberg Forest: Varus, Augustus and Agrippa in 9CE • 5/8 Costa Kensington Long-term impact of the defeat of Varus in the Teutoberg Forest • 5/8 Tom Coon Augustus and the pontificate • 5/8 Jess Dankner Augustus and the food/grain supply of Rome • 5/8 Jon Donahue Augustus and the food/grain supply of Rome • 5/8 Nick Rushman Augustus’ use of Alexander’s iconography • 5/8 Eli Sepkowitz Judaea’s role in the Augustan empire • 5/8 Adam Becker LudiSaeculares of 17 BCE Presentations Pizza?

4. Assessing Augustus:“between citizen and king”

5. Readings • Amato, Becker, Belcastro, Bennett, Burmeister: Galinsky, ch. 4, "Romans in the Roman World," pp. 85-105 • Coon, Dankner, Donahue, DuBois, Hamilton: Galinsky, ch. 5, "Provincial Perspectives," pp. 106-129 • Huang, Kensington, Kowal, Levenson, Maher: Galinsky, ch. 10, "Making Rome a World City," pp. 234-263 • Rahimi, Romero, Rushman, Sepkowitz: Zanker, ch. 8, "The Roman Empire of Augustus: Imperial Myth and Cult in East and West," pp. 297-333 • and • Galinsky, "Conclusion," pp. 335-339 • The end of Levick'sch. 7, "Unmasking a God," pp. 288-318 • Cooley pp. 280-330 (section M)

7. Campus Martius / Pantheon Mausoleum Augusti Forum AugustumT. of Mars Ultor Forum Iulium / T. of Venus Genetrix Roman Forum

8. Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus Temple of Concord Curia Iulia Basilica Iulia MilliariumAureum Temple of Castor & Pollux Basilica Aemilia Rostra Arch of Augustus Temple of Divine Julius Temple of Vesta

9. Houses of Augustus & Livia Temple of Apollo Temple of Divine Julius, Temple of Vesta, Triple Arch of Augustus Baths of Agrippa Temple of Castorand Pollux Basilica Iulia Basilica Aemilia Roman Forum

10. Theater of Marcellus Portico/Theater of Pompey Diribitorium Baths of Agrippa Saepta Iulia Pool/Garden of Agrippa Pantheon

11. Pantheon AraPacis Horologium Mausoleum Augusti

12. Augustus’ Palatine compound

13. 27 BCE: • 3000 praetorians, Rome • 6000 praetorians, Italy • 2 BCE: • 2 praetorian prefects • (1st c. CE relief • of praetorians,Louvre Museum) • Distribution of 25 legions and eight fleets by 14 CE: • 3 legions: Spain + fleet • 8 legions: Rhine + fleet • 7 legions: Danube + fleet • 4 legions: Syria + fleet • 2 legions: Egypt + fleet • 1 legion: Africa • Imperial fleets: Ravenna (Classe) Naples (Neapolis) Marseille (Massilia) 3 legions under Varus lost 9 CE PANNONIA • Ravenna CLIENT KINGDOMS CLIENT KINGDOMS

14. Roman empire and the continental US, 14 & 117 CE

15. Top: Caesar Augustus (obv.), comet & divusIulius (rev.)Bottom: Imp Caesar divi f(ilius) (obv.), Temple of DivusIulius with comet in pediment

16. “In my thirteenth consulship [2 BCE] the senate, the equestrian order and the whole people of Rome gave me the title of pater patriae, and resolved that this should be inscribed in the porch of my house and in the Curia Julia and in the Forum Augustum below the chariot which had been set there in my honor by decree of the senate” (RG 35.1).

17. Imp(erator)IX, tr(ibunicia) po(testate)V = 19 BCE (obv.)Temple of Rom[a] et August[us], issued by the Asian mint (rev.)

18. Athenian Acropolis (reconstruction):Parthenon, Temple of Augustus and Roma

21. Lex de imperioVespasiani, 69-70 CE • . . . or it shall be lawful for him to make a treaty with whom he wishes, just as it was lawful for the deified Augustus, for TiberiusJulius Caesar Augustus, and for Tiberius ClaudiusCaesar Augustus Germanicus; • And that it shall be lawful for him to hold a session of the Senate, to make a motion in it, to refer a matter to it, to propose decrees of the Senate by a motion and by calling for a vote by division, just as it was lawful for the deified Augustus, for Tiberius etc. …; • And that whatever he considers to be in accordance with the public advantage and the dignity of divine and human and public and private interests he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute, just as had the deified Augustus and Tiberius etc. …; • And that by whatever laws or plebiscites it has been recorded that the deified Augustus or (Tiberius) and (Claudius) were not bound, from these laws and plebiscites Emperor Caesar Vespasian shall be exempt; and whatsoever things it was proper for the deified Augustus or (Tiberius) or (Claudius) to do in accordance with any law or proposed law, it shall be lawful for Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus to do all these things; • And that whatever before the passage of this law has been done, executed, decreed, ordered by Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus or by anyone at his order or mandate, these things shall be legal and valid, just as if they had been done by the order of the people or of the plebs. • [followed by a sanction against breaking this lex]

22. Questions: σπεῦδε βραδέως or festinalente (“make haste slowly”) • What do the documents in section M in Cooley, pp. 280-330, reveal about the nature of the administration of the empire under Augustus - both from the perspective of Romans and from that of provincials? • How do these documents help us define Augustus’ role in the lives of Romans and provincials in peregrine (i.e., “foreign”) locales in the empire? • What did Augustus accomplish, in terms of • military conflict • economic opportunities • the food supply and transportation • the lives of veterans • the creation of communities • access to the rights and privileges of Roman citizenship • cultural evolution – Roman “civilization” (humanitas) and “Romanness” (Romanitas) • the management of the provinces • the tricky matter of emperor-worship • Finally, what was Augustus’ legacy and what impact did it have on his successors?