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 104-228 Imperial Rome

Note

Available as 104-328 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Assoc. Professor R D Scott

Prerequisites

Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.

Contact

Two lectures and a tutorial a week, or equivalent

Subject Description

The history, social and literary life of Rome in the first four centuries AD. Students on completion of the subject should have acquired an understanding of Imperial Roman literature and society through the study of the evidence for the period and have also acquired the necessary skills for the interpretation of this evidence.

Assessment

3000 words of written work (50%) and a 2-hour examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts
  • Petronius, Satyricon. Penguin.
  • Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars. Penguin.
  • Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome. Penguin.
  • Boyle A and Sullivan J, Roman Poets of the Early Empire. Penguin.
  • Wells C, The Roman Empire. Fontana.
  • Cameron A, The Later Roman Empire. Fontana.
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