# Calendar

SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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1 | Introduction: Augustus, Authorship, and Authority |
2 | Myths of Origin | Reader response 1
3 | Birth of a Nation: Gender and History |
4 | Repetition and Difference: The Patterns of History |
5 | Roman Institutions |
6 | Warfare Public and Private | Reader response 2
7 | The Functioning of Political Propaganda |
8 | The Waning Days of the Republic |
9 | The Tradition of Public and Political Oratory |
10 | Actium and its Aftermath |
11 | From Republic to Empire |
12 | Independent Research Project Presentations | Oral reports
13 | Strategies of Accommodation |
14 | Resignation and Withdrawal | Research project write-up due
15 | Repetition and Reversal |
16 | The Politics of Pastoral |
17 | The Golden Age of Rome |
18 | The Wayward Hero | Reader response 3
19 | Epics of Empire |
20 | Reconstituting the Nation | Quiz
21 | Organizing Desires: Fathers of the Fatherland | First draft of final paper due
22 | Love Casuistry: Rhetoric, Deceit, and Desire |
23 | Translations of Empire |
24 | Rhetoric and Regret |
25 | Art and Emotion |
26 | The Empire Reconsidered | Final paper due