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The Making of a Roman Emperor
Art: Université de Caen Normandie · CNRS · ENSICAEN…, Bayeux Tapestry Scene 03, 2017 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. William Broadhead
- Term
- Spring 2023
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 handouts · 5 other files · 19 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.336 The Making of a Roman Emperor, Spring 2023, Prof. William Broadhead — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Readings
- Handout - Aeneid Book Six: Virgil's Underworld Download
- Handout - Aeneid Book Eight Download
- Handout - The Afterlife of Nero Download
- Handout - Rival Augustuses: Mussolini and Syme Download
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: The Augustan Principate
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Lecture 4: Augustus of Prima Porta
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Lecture 8: The Forum of Augustus
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Lecture 15: From Augustus to Nero
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. William Broadhead, 21H.336 The Making of a Roman Emperor, Spring 2023.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2023 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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