Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Peter Keegan
Contact via AHIS212 Dialogue (iLearn)
W6A 236
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
12cp at 100 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit comprises a study of Rome from the murder of Julius Caesar (44 BCE) to the end of the reign of Hadrian (138 CE). There is a large emphasis on political history, but attention is also paid to social, cultural and economic developments. Evidence is drawn from documents, monuments and the literature of the period.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Seminar Participation | 25% | No | Every seminar |
Source analysis | 15% | No | Week 2-7 |
Major Essay | 30% | No | 5pm AEST Sunday Week 8 |
Source Analysis + Minor Essay | 30% | No | 7-10pm AEST, Week 13 |
Due: Every seminar
Weighting: 25%
Seminar participation refers to much more than simply being present online. In order to receive marks for participation, you must consistently demonstrate your commitment to the unit by being well-prepared for all seminars, and completing any required seminar reading and discussion preparation. Participation marks are gained through active involvement in the weekly online discussion forums, demonstrated by responding to questions by the required deadlines, participating constructively as required, and showing consideration for your fellow classmates and lecturer by contributing online in a considerate and mature manner.
Due: Week 2-7
Weighting: 15%
Length: 850 words (+/- 10%). ONE (1) written assignment (Source AnalysIs) is to be submitted for assessment. Your Source Analysis will count for 15% of your final mark. You choose the seminar week and therefore which seminar questions you will address in your responses. Seminars in Weeks 2-7 (Seminars 1-6) only are available for selection of your Source Analysis topic and questions. Your Source Analysis must be submitted via Turnitin before the scheduled time of the relevant seminar. Your response will NOT be accepted after seminar discussion has taken place.
Your analysis should be based firmly upon the ancient evidence, and should show an appreciation of what is primary evidence and what is secondary evidence. Your task will comprise written responses to each of the questions set for discussion in whichever seminar you select as the focus of your analysis.
You will base your work principally on the material to be discussed in the pertinent week's seminar. Obviously, there is only so much you can say in 900 words. You should consider this an exercise in expressing yourself succinctly. When citing the ancient evidence upon which you are basing any observation, you may choose to cite it in parentheses (brackets) or you may choose to use footnotes. Any material in footnotes is not considered to be part of your word-length. As you will almost certainly know, historians of the ancient world consider footnotes to be a holding-place for material which you believe necessary to underpin your statements in the text of your source analysis; your response itself should be as trim as is possible. (Please note: That is the Unit convenor's attitude to footnotes! Some people don't like them. In future courses, you should ascertain the individual approach of your teachers in this regard - just to be on the safe side.)
A bibliography of any modern works utilised must be provided.
Submission: via Turnitin.
Required word length: 850 words (+/-10%). All +/- tolerances included in the word length range.
Due submission: Before relevant seminar, Weeks 2-7 only. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED unless an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Due: 5pm AEST Sunday Week 8
Weighting: 30%
Length: 1500 words (+/- 10%). This is a pre-circulated task. ONE (1) written assignment (Major Essay) is to be submitted for assessment. Your Major Essay will count for 30% of your final mark. Your Major Essay must be submitted via Turnitin by no later than 5pm AEST Sunday in Week 8.
It is expected that your answer to the essay question will demonstrate extensive consultation of the ancient sources listed in the Unit Guide. Bibliographies will provide you with a starting point for developing a reading list of secondary literature for the essay topic you have chosen. Essay topics will be available for review and selection on the unit iLearn site. In order to locate further material (both ancient and modern) on particular topics or personalities, consult the footnotes and indices of modern works.
In general, secondary literature should be consulted only by way of explaining the ancient sources or giving a broad perspective on the interpretation of the source material and, of course, all opinions included in the essay, whether quoted directly or paraphrased should be referenced according to the guidelines, Essay Presentation & Conventions: Style Guide, available from the Departmental office (W6A 540) or online at http://mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_ancient_history/teaching_materials/.
Ensure you download the Full Version of the Essay Presentation Guide.
Submission: via Turnitin
Required word length: 1500 words (+/- 10%). All +/- tolerances included in the word range.
Due submission: 5.00pm AEST, Sunday Week 8. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED unless an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Due: 7-10pm AEST, Week 13
Weighting: 30%
Length: 750 words (+/- 10%) for each response = 1500 words (+/- 10%) in total. There will be a final written task in Week 13. This task will take the form of
Your Source Analysis + Minor Essay must be submitted as a single file via Turnitin. This is a timed assessment task (3 hrs) and will be open from 7pm to 10pm AEST on Saturday in Week 13.
NB
It is your responsibility to ensure that your Source Analysis and Minor Essay responses do not relate in any way to written work submitted in previous assessment responses to your chosen Source Analysis and Major Essay topics.
NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED unless an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
CLASSES
For seminars please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display up-to-date information on your classes and classroom locations. NB There are no formal lectures scheduled for this unit. However, recordings of lectures delivered in previous years will be provided on the AHIS212 iLearn site.
RESOURCES
REQUIRED READING
Tacitus, The Annals (transl. and commentary by A.J. Woodman, 2004) [available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/42733871/Annals-Tacitus]
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World Classics 2000)
This unit will lay great emphasis on the evidence of ancient sources. The Book of Readings (available for download on the unit iLearn site) must be accessible while listening to lectures and attending seminars. Copies of Tacitus and Suetonius should be brought to all the relevant seminar sessions also. You may also wish to purchase some paperback translations of other writers in addition to the above. For example, Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, Vergil, Aeneid, Horace, Odes and Epodes, Pliny the Younger, Letters - all available in a Penguin edition.
RECOMMENDED READING
Werner Eck (transl. D.L. Schneider), The Age of Augustus (Oxford 2003)
Richard Alston, Aspects of Roman History AD14-117 (London 1998, 2nd ed. 2013)
Anthony Birley, Hadrian the Restless Emperor (London 1997)
Week 1 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Caesar's murder and its political effects. 2. Octavian, Antonius and the battle of Actium. |
Seminar 0 |
Week 2 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Octavian becomes Augustus - 27 BC. 2. Augustan history: the Res Gestae and Dio. |
Seminar 1 |
Week 3 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Augustus' military career. 2. Augustus and freedom of speech in Rome. |
Seminar 2 |
Week 4 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Augustus' plan for his successor. 2. Augustan monuments in Rome. |
Seminar 3 |
Week 5 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Tiberius and Augustus. 2. Tiberius and his nephew Germanicus. |
Seminar 4 |
Week 6 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Sejanus and the end of Tiberius' principate. 2. Caligula - hopes for a new Golden Age. |
Seminar 5 |
Week 7 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Caligula and the Jews of Alexandria. 2. Caligula's sister, Drusilla Panthea, and the precedent of Livia. |
Seminar 6 |
Week 8 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Claudius' accession and the role of the Praetorian Guard. 2. Claudius' wives and freedmen. |
No seminar |
Week 9 |
Recorded Lectures 1. The early years of Nero as ruler. 2. The Pisonian conspiracy against Nero |
Seminar 7 |
Week 10 |
Recorded Lectures 1. AD 69-70: The Civil Wars. 2. Vespasian and Rome |
Seminar 8 |
Week 11 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Titus and the fall of Jerusalem. 2. Achievements of Domitian's principate |
Seminar 9 |
Week 12 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Rome under Nerva and Trajan. 2. Trajan's expansive wars. |
Seminar 10 |
Week 13 |
Recorded Lectures 1. Hadrian, Trajan's successor. 2. Hadrian and the Jewish War. |
No seminar |
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The following elements of AHIS212 have changed:
1. Assessment: weighting and type
2. Lectures and classes
ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONS
ALL written assignments (seminar paper, essay, extended response) will be submitted via Turnitin.
EXTENSIONS
ALL deadlines are firm unless an extension has been requested no later than one (1) week before the due date. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED unless an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.