CLAS 446 Augustan Rome
Investigates the city of Rome and the beginnings of the Roman empire as constituted by Augustus in the late first century B.C. to early first century A.D. Works produced by the circle of intellectuals and practitioners around Augustus (Virgil, Horace, Vitruvius, and others) provided models for later Western literature and art. Uses primary sources - archeological, artistic, and literary - to investigate the political, social, and moral climate and the appearance of Augustan Rome.