The Art and Monuments of Augustan Rome

4 credits · Undergraduate

Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, inaugurated an enormous building program during his long reign that completely transformed the empire’s capital city. In this seminar we will consider some of the most famous of his constructions—his Mausoleum (the tumulus of the Julii), the temple of Palatine Apollo, the Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of the Augustan Peace), the Augustan Forum—and we will examine the ways in which these new monuments helped shape popular perceptions of the new system of government that Augustus established (—a veiled monarchy).