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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Alexander Yakobson
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday
16.30. - 17.30
Teaching Staff:
Prof Alexander Yakobson
Course/Module description:
Imperial succession and the attitude of Roman Emperors to their predecessors
Course/Module aims:
The course will examine the handing down of imperial power under the early principate, starting from Tiberius who succeeded Augustus,and till the Flavian Emperors. We will study the attitude of Roman Emperors in this period to their predecessors, the different factors that had shaped this attitude, and ask why some of the Roman Emperors were unusually eager to distance themselves from their predecessors, What does this tell us about the principate as a political system and a political culture?
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To describe and analyze the circumstances under which each of the Roman Emperors in question rose to power.
To present the attitude of each Emperor to his immediate predecessor and to the previous rulers.
To analyze the different factors that shaped each Emperor's policy on this matter.
To present the limits of distancing oneself from one's predecessor(S) in the case of those rulers that adopted this policy, and to account for those limits in terms of the logic system's proper functioning.
To explain the phenomenon of distancing oneself from one's predecessor(s) in terms and the connection between this phenomenon and the character of the Roman principate as a system of government and as a political culture.
Attendance requirements(%):
85%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Reading the sources, Discussions in class, a short written assignment
Course/Module Content:
Tiberius; Gaius Caligula; Claudius; Nero; ''The Year of the 4 Emperors''; Vespasian; Titus; Nero.
Required Reading:
H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero, 1982 (5th edition)
"Rome: from Republic to Empire'' (eds. H. Cotton and A. Yakobson) - papers.
Sources and papers - the Moodle.
Additional Reading Material:
A. Yakobson, “Maiestas, the imperial ideology and the imperial family: the evidence of the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre”, in Eutopia (Nuova Serie III, 1 -2, Roma), 2003, 75 – 108.
E.S. Ramage, ‘Denigration of Predecessor under Claudius, Galba, and Vespasian’, Historia 32 (1983) 201-14.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 65 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 15 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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