Fall 2011, MWF 10:00-11:50pm
MCOL E155
Noel Lenski
lenski@colorado.edu
Tabula Peutingeriana (copy of a 4th/5th-C map) showing the
Dalmatian coast,
Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, and the African Mediterranean
coast
Tabula Peutingeriana (copy of a 4th/5th-C map) showing the
Dalmatian coast,
Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, and the African Mediterranean
coast
Midterm Preparation Guide (for Oct. 10, 2011)
Eight-page Paper Assignment (for Nov. 4, 2011)
Lectures| Lecture 1. Why Rome? | Lecture 15. Slaves and Slavery |
| Lecture 2. Rise and Fall of Roman Republic | Lecture 16. Rural Life, Urban Life |
| Lecture 3. Rise of Augustus | Lecture 17. Study in Contrasts: Aristocrats and Freedmen |
| Lecture 4. Customs of Our Ancestors | Lecture 18. Pax Deorum: Religion and Belief |
| Lecture 5. Empire Without End | Lecture 19. Bread and Circuses: Spectacle and Festival |
| Lecture 6. The Golden Age | Lecture 20. True Story of the Roman Arena CANCELLED |
| Lecture 7. Julio-Claudians | Lecture 21. The Crisis of the Third Century |
| Lecture 8. Flavians | Lecture 22. The New Empire of Diocletian |
| Lecture 9. The Five Good Emperors | Lecture 23. Constantine and Christianization |
| Lecture 10. The Severan Empire | Lecture 24. Emperors and Frontiers |
| Lecture 11. The Emperor at Work | Lecture 25. The Empire Unwinds, the Empire Survives |
| Lecture 12. Pax Romana: The Provinces | Lecture 26. Women and Family in Late Antiquity |
| Lecture 13. War Machine: Roman Imperial Army | Lecture 27. Barbarians |
| Lecture 14. Women and Family in the High Empire | Lecture 28. Epilogue: Roma Aeterna |
| Reading Guide 1. Res Gestae | Reading Guide 8. Satire and the City: CANCELLED |
| Reading Guide 2. Augustan Poetry and Propaganda | Reading Guide 9. The Cults of Isis and Mithras: Universal Religions? |
| Reading Guide 3. Nero, Maniac or Genius? | Reading Guide 10. Attitudes to Spectacle |
| Reading Guide 4. Life of Hadrian | Reading Guide 11. Chaos and Transformation in the Third Century |
| Reading Guide 5. Pliny and Trajan | Reading Guide 12. Martyrdom and Persecution |
| Reading Guide 6. Apuleius and the World of the Golden Ass | Reading Guide 13. The Life of Constantine: Biography or Propaganda |
| Reading Guide 7. Women and Society, Women and Power | Reading Guide 14. Rome and the Germans |