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Updated 10/13/08
Lecture 12: Caesar's heir: Augustus
I. O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet: more Caesar portraits
II. Caesar's successor - Stage I: There'll be Blood
Octavian (born 63 B.C.), divi filius - as per PBS documentary
Second Triumvirate, 43 B.C. (Mark Antony, Octavian, Lepidus)
Philippi (42 B.C.); against Sextus Pompey (Naulochos, 36 B.C.)
and Antony and Cleopatra (Actium, 31 B.C.); Maecenas, Agrippa, Livia
III. Stage II: Augustus and the restoration of the res publica (3 aspects)
a. return to constitutional and legal government in 27 B.C.; Augustus (cf. aug-,
Augur); his alternatives
b. deemphasis of authoritarianism: auctoritas, princeps, libertas (se-curitas), pater
patriae ; the jaundice of our (senatorial) sources (Tacitus, 2nd half of 1st cent. A.D.)
c. transforming and transactional leadership (cf. James MacGregor Burns,
Transforming Leadership, 2004)
d. no ideology, but ideals and values: compulsory marriage laws;
laws against legacy hunting and adultery; Lucretia again
e. the pax Augusta: parta victoriis pax ("peace is born from victories")
foreign policy and provinces; the Parthians
f. recasting the Golden Age: unceasing effort, not paradise
MOVIE CLIP: Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)
IV. Augustan art and architecture - a new synthesis
a. simplicity of form; moral dimension (vs. previous architectural excesses, e.g., Sulla's Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste)
b. complexity of associations and references; "image for contemplation"
c. buildings: Temple of Divus Julius; Forum of Augustus (Temple of Mars the Avenger); Pont du Gard (aqueduct);
Maison Carrée (Temple in Nimes, France); Circus MaximusTo be continued Thursday.
For next time, begin reading Vergil's Aeneid and bring the texts to class. Consult the summary on the web.
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