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The Making of a Roman Emperor

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21H.402
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2005English
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Focusing on the emperors Augustus and Nero, this course investigates the ways in which Roman emperors used art, architecture, coinage and other media to create and project an image of themselves, the ways in which the surviving literary sources from the Roman period reinforced or subverted that image, and the ways in which both phenomena have contributed to post-classical perceptions of Roman emperors.

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