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Prescribed text (1 items) Students should purchase their own copy of this prescribed text. Ebook or print versions are both acceptable.
Lives of the Caesars - Catharine Edwards, Suetonius, ProQuest (Firm), 2000 Book | Prescribed
Other recommended resources (26 items)
These resources may help with your final essay or other assessment tasks
The Oxford classical dictionary - Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, c2003 Book | Prescribed
Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World - Donald G. Kyle, 2014 Book | Recommended
Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook - Alison E. Cooley, M. G. L. Cooley, Ebook Library, 2013 Book | Recommended
Spectacle in the Roman world - Hazel Dodge, 2008 Book | Recommended
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Gladiator: film and history - Martin M. Winkler, 2004 Book | Recommended
Death and renewal - Keith Hopkins, 1983 Book | Recommended
The Annals : The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Cornelius Tacitus, 2008 Book | Prescribed
Lives of the later Caesars : the first part of the Augustan history, with lives of Nerva and Trajan - Anthony Birley, 2005 Book | Prescribed
Lives of the later Caesars: the first part of the Augustan history : with newly compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan - Anthony Richard Birley, 1976 Book | Prescribed
Gladiators at Pompeii - Luciana Jacobelli, c2003 Book | Recommended
Emperors and gladiators - Thomas E. J. Wiedemann, Ebook Library, 1992 Book | Prescribed
Gladiators and caesars: the power of spectacle in ancient Rome - Eckart Ko ̈ hne, Ralph Jackson, Cornelia Ewigleben, British Museum, 2000 Book | Recommended
Commodus: an emperor at the crossroads - Olivier Hekster, 2002 Book | Recommended
The Antonines: the Roman empire in transition - Michael Grant, 1994 Book | Recommended
Nero - D. C. A. Shotter, 2005 Book | Recommended
Caligula - Sam Wilkinson, 2005 Book | Recommended
Constructing autocracy: aristocrats and emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome - Matthew B. Roller, 2001 Book | Recommended
The Julio - Claudian emperors: AD 14-70 - Thomas E. J. Wiedemann, 1989 Book | Recommended | P-E-checking with vendor-J.M-17.8
The Julio - Claudian emperors: AD 14-70 - Thomas E. J. Wiedemann, 1989 Book | Recommended
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The Age of Augustus - Werner Eck, Ebook Library, 2012 Book | Recommended
Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History - Martin M. Winkler, 2012 Book | Recommended
The Hollywood historical film - Robert Burgoyne, 2008 Book | Recommended
The return of the epic film: genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century - Ebooks Corporation, 2014 Book | Recommended
A Companion to Classical Receptions - Lorna Hardwick, , Christopher Stray, , and Lorna Hardwick, 2010 Book | Recommended
Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire - Katherine M. D. Dunbabin, 2016 Book | Recommended
Chapter 7: The amphitheatre : gladiators and wild beast hunts Chapter | Recommended
Week 1 : Origins (1 items)
Required Reading (1 items)
The origins of empire: Roman warfare and imperialism (261-121 BC) Chapter | Prescribed
Week 2 : Spectacular contexts (15 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (4 items)
As the Romans did: a source book in Roman social history [Selected pages] Chapter | Prescribed
Poem 23 - Sidonius Book | Prescribed
Ben-Hur (1/10) - Parade of the Charioteers (1959) HD - YouTube Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Ben-Hur (3/10) - The Chariot Race (1959) HD - YouTube Audio-visual document | Prescribed
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Optional Reading/Viewing (11 items)
The Greatest Race: Part 2: Chariot Races In The Circus - Ep 2 - Informit EduTV Audio-visual document | Prescribed
As the Romans did: a sourcebook in Roman social history - Jo-Ann Shelton, 1998 Book | Recommended
The story of the Roman amphitheatre - D. L. Bomgardner, ProQuest (Firm), 2001 Book | Recommended
Secrets Of The Colosseum - Informit EduTV Audio-visual document | Recommended
Empires Of Stone: Colosseum - Informit EduTV Audio-visual document | Recommended
Rome: engineering an empire - Chris Cassel, Michael Carroll, KPI, History Television Network Productions, History Channel (Television network), Arts and Entertainment Network, Foxtel, c2005 Audio-visual document | Recommended | This is the edition held at Bundoora.
Rome: engineering an empire - Chris Cassel, Michael Carroll, Michael Richard Plowman, Jennifer Honn, Kralyevich Productions, History Channel (Television network), Arts & Entertainment Network, New Video Group, c2007 Book | Recommended | This is the edition held at Bendigo.
Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ - Charlton Heston, Sam Zimbalist, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959, 2001 Audio-visual document | Recommended | This is the full movie if you would like to watch for context.
Ben-Hur (Movie 2016) Audio-visual document | Recommended
Ben-Hur remake filming banned from Rome’s Circus Maximus | The Guardian Webpage | Recommended
Roman circuses: arenas for chariot racing - John Humphrey, 1986 Book | Recommended
Week 3 : Gladiators (3 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (2 items)
Gladiators: the brutal truth - Alan Ereira, 2000 Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Murderous games - Keith Hopkins
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Chapter | Prescribed
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
The Roman games: a sourcebook - Alison Futrell, ProQuest (Firm), 2006 Book | Recommended
Week 4 : Augustus (5 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (4 items)
The deified Augustus Chapter | Prescribed
Appendix 2: The Julio-Claudian family tree (simplified) Chapter | Prescribed
Augustus - The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian - 2010 Chapter | Prescribed | Read 'The 'Res Gestae' of Augustus. Composed AD 12-14', page 41-52
The Annals : The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Cornelius Tacitus, John Yardley, and Anthony Barrett, 2008 Book | Prescribed
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
I, Caesar - Augustus (Movie 1997) Audio-visual document | Recommended
Week 5 : Dynasty I: Julio-Claudians (8 items)
Required Reading/Viewing for Seminar (3 items)
Chronicle of the Roman emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome [Selected Pages] Chapter | Prescribed | Read the vital statistics of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read chapters 'Tiberius' and 'The Deified Claudius'
The Annals : The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Cornelius Tacitus, John Yardley,
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and Anthony Barrett, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read Books 1.6 - 1.15 and Book 6
Required Reading/Viewing for Film (3 items)
Pompeii - Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Paul W. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Clinton Shorter, Don Carmody, Robert Kulzer, Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson, Icon Film Distribution, Constantin Film (Firm), Impact Pictures Pompei, 2014 Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Pliny Vesuvius Webpage | Prescribed
BBC - History - Pompeii: Portents of Disaster Webpage | Recommended
Optional Reading/Viewing (2 items)
Lost Worlds: Treasures Of Ancient Rome : Pomp And Perversion Audio-visual document | Recommended | The first 28 minutes is relevant this week and the rest when we get to the Flavians in week 9 and Hadrian and the other good emperors in week 10.
The Last Days of Pompeii (Movie 1935) - Informit EduTV Audio-visual document | Recommended | This film is very dated now, but makes for an interesting comparison with Pompeii (2014).
Week 6 : Cruel Caligula? (5 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (3 items)
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read chapter 'Caligula'
Cassius Dio: Book 59 Webpage | Prescribed | Read passage 59.14
Caligula with Mary Beard Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Optional Reading/Viewing (2 items)
I, Claudius - Martin Lisemore, Herbert Wise, Derek Jacobi, Sia ̂
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n Phillips, Robert Graves, Robert Graves, British Broadcasting Corporation, London Films, BBC Worldwide Ltd, c2002 Audio-visual document | Recommended | This is the edition held at Bundoora.
I, Claudius: the complete series - Herbert Wise, Jack Pulman, Martin Lisemore, Robert Graves, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Patrick Stewart, George Baker, Sia ̂ n Phillips, Robert Graves, Robert Graves, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, London Films, Acorn Media (Firm), 2012 Book | Recommended | This is the edition held at Bendigo.
Week 7 : Notorious Nero (3 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (2 items)
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read chapter 'Nero'
The Annals : The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Cornelius Tacitus, John Yardley, and Anthony Barrett, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read Annals book 14 (all) and 15.33-74, plus 16.16-19 on the fallout from the Pisonian conspiracy.
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
Quo Vadis (Movie, 1951) Audio-visual document | Recommended | Watch the following 3 video chapters, you may scroll through the video chapters using the forward and back buttons next to the play/pause button. Chapter 10 (Nero sings while Poppaea's interest lies elsewhere...), Chapter 20 (Rome burns, the hero, Vinicius, a Roman general, looks for his love interest, Lygia (a Christian). Nero sings again and Petronius talks in doublespeak!) and Chapter 19 (Nero's plans for a new Rome. The grey haired man is Seneca and the dark-haired is Petronius).
Week 8 : Civil war (5 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (2 items)
Chronicle of the Roman emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome - Christopher Scarre, 2012 Book | Prescribed | Read the vital statistics of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titan and Domitian
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius, 2008
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Book | Prescribed | Read 'Galba' (at least chapters 11-23), 'Otho' (all), 'Vitellius' (at least chapters 10-18) and 'Vespasian' (all)
Optional Reading/Viewing (3 items)
The histories - Cornelius Tacitus, 1925-1937 Book | Recommended
Cassius Dio: Roman History Webpage | Recommended | Read books 63-65
Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Webpage | Recommended
Week 9 : Dynasty II: Flavians (4 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (3 items)
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius, 2008 Book | Prescribed | Read chapters 'Titus' and 'Domitian'
'Epitome of Book LXVII' from 'Roman History' - Cassius Dio Webpage | Prescribed | Read 67.9 regarding dining with Domitian
Lost Worlds Documentary: Art from the Flavians to Hadrian Audio-visual document | Prescribed | Watch the end of this video- the first half was set for viewing in week 5.
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
The day a rhinoceros came to Rome Audio-visual document | Recommended
Week 10 : 'Good Emperors' (4 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (3 items)
Chronicle of the Roman emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome - Christopher Scarre, 2012 Book | Prescribed | Read the vital statistics of Antonius Pius, Hadrian, Marcus Aurleius, Nerva and Trajan
'The life of Hadrian' from 'Historia Augusta' Webpage | Prescribed
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Marcus Antoninus the philosopher Chapter | Prescribed
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
Hadrian With Dan Snow Audio-visual document | Recommended
Week 11 : Emperor and Gladiator (5 items)
Required Reading/Viewing for seminar (2 items)
Commodus - Historia Augusta Book | Prescribed
Chronicle of the Roman emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome - Christopher Scarre, 2012 Book | Prescribed | Read the vital statistics of Commodus
Required Reading/Viewing for Film (2 items)
Gladiator - Informit EduTV Audio-visual document | Prescribed | Rrequired Viewing
The fall of the Roman Empire - Trailer Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Optional Reading/Viewing (1 items)
The fall of the Roman Empire - Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina, Samuel Bronston, Anthony Mann, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif, Mel Ferrer, Dimitri Tiomkin, Samuel Bronston Productions, Inc, Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm), Genius Products, Inc, c2008 Audio-visual document | Recommended
Week 12 : Roman comedy? (7 items)
Required Reading/Viewing (4 items)
Apocolocyntosis - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Book | Prescribed
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Juvenal (55–140) - The Satires: Satire IV Webpage | Prescribed
'Fight to the Death' scene from Spartacus (1960) Audio-visual document | Prescribed
Monty Python's Life of Brian - Terry Jones, 1979 Audio-visual document | Prescribed | Watch the colosseum clip ahead of tutorials this week
Optional Reading/Viewing (3 items)
Horrible Histories: Season 3 - Episode 7 Audio-visual document | Recommended | Watch Chapter 8: Rotten Romans, 'Four Bad Emperors' song
Spartacus (Movie, 1960) - Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Stanley Kubrick, Edward Lewis, Dalton Trumbo, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Howard Fast, c2006 Audio-visual document | Recommended | Entire film in DVD format
Spartacus (Movie 1960) Audio-visual document | Recommended | Entire film online
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