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Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
The Roman Empire
From Augustus to the Fall of Rome
Course Guidebook
Professor Gregory S. Aldrete
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
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Gregory S. Aldrete, PhD
Frankenthal Professor of History and Humanistic Studies
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
G
regory S. Aldrete is the Frankenthal Professor of History and
Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He
received his BA from Princeton University and his PhD in Ancient History
from the University of Michigan. His interdisciplinary scholarship spans the
fields of history, archaeology, art history, military history, and philology.
Professor Aldrete has written and edited several books, including
Gestures
and Acclamations in Ancient Rome; Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome;
Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia; The Long Shadow
of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?
(with Alicia
Aldrete); and
Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the
Linothorax Mystery
(with Scott Bartell and Alicia Aldrete).
PROFESSOR BIOGRAPHY
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Professor Aldrete has won many awards for his teaching, including two
national ones: He was named the Wisconsin Professor of the Year by the
Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and he received an Award for
Excellence in Teaching at the College Level from the Society for Classical
Studies. At the state level, he was selected from among all professors in
the University of Wisconsin System to receive a System Regents Teaching
Excellence Award, and his campus granted him its highest teaching
award, the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from the university’s
Founders Association.
Professor Aldrete has been honored with a number of fellowships, including
two yearlong humanities fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH) and the Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for
Research in the Humanities in Madison, Wisconsin. Additionally, he was
a fellow of two NEH seminars held at the American Academy in Rome and
was a participant in an NEH institute at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Professor Aldrete was the Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecturer for
the Archaeological Institute of America, for which he gave a series of public
lectures across the United States.
Professor Aldrete’s innovative Linothorax Project, in which he and his
students reconstructed and tested ancient linen body armor, has garnered
considerable media attention; it has been featured in documentaries on the
Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and the National Geographic
Channel as well as on television programs in Canada and across Europe.
His research has also been the subject of articles in
U.S. News and World
Report, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Der Spiegel
magazine, and
Military History
and of internet news stories in
more than two dozen countries.
Professor Aldrete’s other Great Courses are
History of the Ancient World:
A Global Perspective; The Decisive Battles of World History; History’s Great
Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach;
and
The Rise of Rome.
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THE ROmAn EmPIRE: FROm AuGuSTuS TO THE FAll OF ROmE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Course Scope
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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LECTURE GUIDES
1
Dawn of the Roman Empire
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
2
Augustus, the First Emperor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12
3
Tiberius and Caligula
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22
4
Claudius and Nero
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
5
The Flavian Emperors and Roman Bath Culture
. . . . . . .
40
6
The Five Good Emperors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
52
7
Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: The Five Fs
. . . . . . . .
64
8
Roman Art and Architecture
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
74
9
Roman Literature
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
86
10
The Ordinary Roman Speaks: Graffiti
. . . . . . . . . . . .
96
11
Final Words: Burial and Tombstone Epitaphs
. . . . . . .
104
12
From Commodus to Caracalla
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112
PROFESSOR BIOGRAPHY
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