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Lecture 2 - Augustus: First Amongst Equals
About This Webinar
The figure often seen as quintessentially Roman is the first emperor, Augustus. Out of the chaos of the late Republic's period of civil war, one man emerged victorious, the young kinsman of the recently murdered Julius Caesar, Octavion. Soon to be transformed by the Senate into the 'first amongst equals' and given the honorific title of Augustus, he was a champion of Italy. His culture minister Maecenas was an Etruscan, and his life and the city he so triumphantly adorned; finding it brick and leaving it marble, was only part of a wider Italian programme of work and benefaction. It is an extraordinary story by any standards.
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Featured Presenters
Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and was Director of the British School at Rome from 2009 to 2017. He studied at Oxford University and has written extensively on the beginnings of the city of Rome and on Roman historical writing. He has published a book on The Etruscans for Oxford University Press their Very Short Introductions series, and in 2017 was awarded the prestigious Premio “Cultori di Roma” as well as a Leverhulme Research Grant, and will be spending time in Germany, Italy and France, to learn more about the ancient world.
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