CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

20

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 7

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

12.00 noon

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module studies a range of literary works that were written during the lifetime of the first emperor, Augustus (late first century BCE to early first century CE), and that react in different ways to the new regime that he established. This was a time of enormous changes within Roman politics, art and society; it was also one of the most creative periods of Latin literature, with important works by authors like Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Livy which have had an enormous influence over later European culture. A central theme of the module is the development of the architecture and public art of the city of Rome during this period, and the different ways in which the city features in the literature of the time. The module is complementary to CL1004, and is meant both for students who intend to take Honours Classical Studies or Ancient History and for those who want a general survey of these aspects of Greco-Roman legacy.

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

30 lectures and 6 tutorials across the semester.

Scheduled learning hours

36

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

164

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify and describe the characteristic features of key literary texts and material culture of the Augustan period
  • Describe and analyse the content, genre, narrative technique and style of the set texts; describe and analyse the technique, iconography, style, techniques of a range of material evidence of the Augustan period
  • Analyse the interaction of these texts / material culture with their social, cultural, intellectual and historical context
  • Demonstrate the ability to relate literature and material culture of the Augustan period
  • Analyse, critically evaluate and discuss scholarship on the Augustan period and texts / material culture studied
  • Devise coherent and well-reasoned arguments both in oral and written form on the primary evidence and scholarship