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MIT OpenCourseWare
The Making of a Roman Emperor
Art: Matilda of Flanders, Bayeux Tapestry 4 variant, 1070 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. William Broadhead
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 3 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.402 The Making of a Roman Emperor, Fall 2005, 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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Lecture 2: The Emperors and Their Empire
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Lecture 3: Suetonius’ Augustus
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Lecture 4: Tacitus and Tacitus’ Augustus
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Lecture 5: Tacitus’ Nero
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Lecture 6: Suetonius’ Nero
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Lecture 7: Reading the Written Emperor
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Lecture 8: Warring images: Octavian, Antony, and Actium
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Lecture 9: Inventing Augustus
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Lecture 10: Shaping Roman Values
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Lecture 11: Golden Prosperity
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Lecture 12: Making Augustan History
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Lecture 13: Nero Makes a Spectacle of Himself
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Lecture 14: Neronian Myth-making
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Lecture 15: Nero Behaving Badly
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Lecture 16: Nero’s Rome
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Lecture 17: Making a Military Mockery
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Lecture 18: Making Imperial History
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Lecture 19: The Reel Nero: Viewing of Quo Vadis ? (1951)
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Lecture 20: Nero’s Christian Afterlife
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Lecture 21: Mussolini’s Augustus
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Lecture 22: Syme’s Augustus
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Lecture 23: Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics
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Lecture 24: Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics (cont.)
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Lecture 25: Viewing of I, Claudius (1976)
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Lecture 26: Conclusion: Whose Emperors?
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. William Broadhead, 21H.402 The Making of a Roman Emperor, Fall 2005.
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