The Roman World
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Empire and Symbol
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Rome and its culture still exerts an enormous influence on modern culture, particularly in the west. Through media such as film, literature, a...
Empire and Symbol (handout)
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Rome and its culture still exerts an enormous influence on modern culture, particularly in the west. Through media such as film, literature, a...
Pompeii
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Buried under the ash from the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in AD 79, Pompeii and other sites around the Bay of Naples provide extraord...
Pompeii (handout)
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Buried under the ash from the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in AD 79, Pompeii and other sites around the Bay of Naples provide extraord...
Roman Spectacle
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Amphitheatres are notorious as the places where the Romans held their more gruesome forms of "entertainment", including gladiatorial fights, execution...
Roman Spectacle (handout)
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Amphitheatres are notorious as the places where the Romans held their more gruesome forms of "entertainment", including gladiatorial fights, execution...
Flavian Rome
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
After Nero's suicide in 68 CE Rome was plunged into civil war again, as successive military commanders were declared emperor. The victor was Flavius V...
Flavian Rome (handout)
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
After Nero's suicide in 68 CE Rome was plunged into civil war again, as successive military commanders were declared emperor. The victor was Flavius V...
Freedmen and Satire: Petronius
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nero’s subversive courtier, Petronius, is almost certainly the Petronius Arbiter who wrote the satirical work Satyricon, one of the most interesting...
Freedmen and Satire: Petronius (handout)
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nero’s subversive courtier, Petronius, is almost certainly the Petronius Arbiter who wrote the satirical work Satyricon, one of the most interesting...
Workers and Freedmen
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Work is represented as something dirty and sordid by the Roman elite, particularly Cicero, while freedmen always retained some of the stigma associate...
Workers and Freedmen (handout)
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Work is represented as something dirty and sordid by the Roman elite, particularly Cicero, while freedmen always retained some of the stigma associate...
Another Renaissance: Neronian Culture
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nero seems to have encouraged innovative art and architecture (including his own extravagant houses), and to have fostered literary achievement. But h...
Another Renaissance: Neronian Culture (handout)
15 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nero seems to have encouraged innovative art and architecture (including his own extravagant houses), and to have fostered literary achievement. But h...
Bad Emperors: Claudius and Nero
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Claudius is famous as the survivor of the Julio-Claudian family – an unlikely emperor according to both ancient historians and Robert Graves alike. ...
Bad Emperors: Claudius and Nero (handout)
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Claudius is famous as the survivor of the Julio-Claudian family – an unlikely emperor according to both ancient historians and Robert Graves alike. ...
After Augustus: the Julio-Claudians
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When Augustus died in 14 CE, he had successfully established a dynastic form of monarchy which was confirmed by the continuation of the principate. Th...
After Augustus: the Julio-Claudians (handout)
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When Augustus died in 14 CE, he had successfully established a dynastic form of monarchy which was confirmed by the continuation of the principate. Th...
Augustan Culture: Rebuilding Rome
24 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Augustus continued the late Republican trend of utilising public building as a propagandist tool, to promote himself and his regime. However, Augustan...
Augustan Culture: Rebuilding Rome (handout)
24 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Augustus continued the late Republican trend of utilising public building as a propagandist tool, to promote himself and his regime. However, Augustan...
Augustan Love: Propertius and Ovid
18 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Love poetry during the Augustan period is notable for the elegiac genre, a short-lived but significant body of poetry which represents the poet as ens...
Augustan Love: Propertius and Ovid (handout)
18 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Love poetry during the Augustan period is notable for the elegiac genre, a short-lived but significant body of poetry which represents the poet as ens...
Roman Myth as Poetry: War in Italy
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
War is the central theme of Aeneid 7-12, as Aeneas faces opposition to his settlement in Italy, primarily from the Rutulian prince, Turnus. This lectu...
Roman Myth as Poetry: War in Italy (handout)
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
War is the central theme of Aeneid 7-12, as Aeneas faces opposition to his settlement in Italy, primarily from the Rutulian prince, Turnus. This lectu...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Future Rome
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Although the Aeneid is set in the remote, mythical past, it deals with Vergil's present, most prominently in books 6 and 8. In book 6, Aeneasvisits th...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Future Rome (handout)
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Although the Aeneid is set in the remote, mythical past, it deals with Vergil's present, most prominently in books 6 and 8. In book 6, Aeneasvisits th...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Love and Hate
05 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The doomed love affair of Aeneas and Dido is, on the face of it, an unusual tale for ancient epic. This lecture shows how Vergil's account of Dido's p...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Love and Hate (handout)
05 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The doomed love affair of Aeneas and Dido is, on the face of it, an unusual tale for ancient epic. This lecture shows how Vergil's account of Dido's p...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Trojan Ancestors II
05 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The fall of Troy might be the most famous myth from Classical antiquity. In the second book of the Aeneid, Aeneas himself tells the story of Troy's de...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Trojan Ancestors II (handout)
05 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The fall of Troy might be the most famous myth from Classical antiquity. In the second book of the Aeneid, Aeneas himself tells the story of Troy's de...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Trojan Ancestors
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Vergil's Aeneid is one of the highlights of Roman literature, and its influence over all later Roman writing, as well as post antique European literat...
Roman Myth as Poetry: Trojan Ancestors (handout)
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Vergil's Aeneid is one of the highlights of Roman literature, and its influence over all later Roman writing, as well as post antique European literat...
Roman Revolution: The Augustan Principate
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of Augustus is often represented as a political and cultural revolution at Rome. Julius Caesar's heir claimed to be restoring the Republic af...
Roman Revolution: The Augustan Principate (handout)
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of Augustus is often represented as a political and cultural revolution at Rome. Julius Caesar's heir claimed to be restoring the Republic af...
Republican Spaces: Power and Monumentality
22 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Rome was a space for individual competition during the Republic. Triumphant generals dedicated public buildings such as temples or basilic...
Republican Spaces: Power and Monumentality (handout)
22 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Rome was a space for individual competition during the Republic. Triumphant generals dedicated public buildings such as temples or basilic...
The Republic: Politics as War
20 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cicero was the most prominent orator of his day and a significant political figure in the late Republic. However his success was anything but expected...
The Republic: Politics as War (handout)
20 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cicero was the most prominent orator of his day and a significant political figure in the late Republic. However his success was anything but expected...
Building the Empire: Julius Caesar
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The last hundred years of the Republic saw tensions between competing military and political leaders at Rome, out of which grew urban violence, polit...
Julius Caesar Timeline (handout)
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A timeline of Caesar's life.
Building the Empire: Julius Caesar (handout)
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The last hundred years of the Republic saw tensions between competing military and political leaders at Rome, out of which grew urban violence, polit...
Plautus and Pseudolus
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Comic plays are the earliest complete literary texts we have from Rome, and the comedies of the mid-Republican poet Plautus have been enormously influ...
Plautus and Pseudolus (handout)
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Comic plays are the earliest complete literary texts we have from Rome, and the comedies of the mid-Republican poet Plautus have been enormously influ...
The Republic: History and Literature
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rome's growing power in the Mediterranean during the mid-Republic (4th to 2nd centuries BCE) gave it wealth, luxury goods and access to new cultures. ...
The Republic: History and Literature (handout)
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rome's growing power in the Mediterranean during the mid-Republic (4th to 2nd centuries BCE) gave it wealth, luxury goods and access to new cultures. ...
The Republic: Slaves and Conquerors
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture looks at Roman slavery and power structures during the Roman Republic. Although the foundation of the Republic was represented by the Rom...
The Republic: Slaves and Conquerors (handout)
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture looks at Roman slavery and power structures during the Roman Republic. Although the foundation of the Republic was represented by the Rom...
Roman Myth as History
30 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture will explore the stories which Romans believed formed their earliest history, including the myth of Romulus and Remus, the arrival of Aen...
Roman Myth as History (handout)
30 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture will explore the stories which Romans believed formed their earliest history, including the myth of Romulus and Remus, the arrival of Aen...
Death and Burial in Ancient Rome
10 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The disposal and commemoration of the dead gives us significant insight into a society. This is particularly true of the Romans, who venerated their a...