(A) Required Experience: 

This is a mutli-day class addressed to students who already have a background on ancient civilizations, and a special interest in the Roman History. 
N.B.: The students do not necessarily need to take first "Roman Republican History" or "Late Roman Republic" (offered also as multi-day courses) in order to sign up for this class. The material of "Early Imperial Rome" is based on the works and days of the Julio-Claudian emperors. So, anyone interested in learning about the first dynasty of Roman emperors is welcomed in the classroom. 

(B) Teaching style and students interaction:

The learning process of this class is based on a combination of a power-point presentation, a lecture that asks students to participate, class dialogue, questions based on the ongoing lecture, and new ideas based on the participants. There is not one universal solution to teach. Rather I combine techniques to achieve the maximum of my strengths and of my students. Having taught so far young kids, teenagers, University students and mature learners, I know that teachers need to approach students with understanding. After all, such a small class has the advantage of making the combined technique of ppt presentation-lecture-dialogue feasible and efficient. Thanks to Zoom, engaging students and interacting with them is always possible. 

(C) Topics to be covered, and class structure: 

1st day: Octavian as Restorer of Order / Apollo the Healer and Octavian the Healer / Octavian's House on the Palatine Hill (the first "palace")

2nd day: Augustus Contested (Crassus - Taurus - Gallus - Plancus - Sosianus - Balbus)

3th day: First Constitutional Settlement (27 CE) - Octavian becomes Augustus / Second Constitutional Settlement (23 CE) - Octavian Augustus becomes Princeps / Augustus is awarded the Corona Civica

4th day: Augustus honors Deified Julius Caesar (Temples - Monuments - Coins - Festivals)

5th day: Military Reforms - Bellona and Mars ultor - Relations with Parthia 

6th day: Restoring the "Good Old Days" - Moral Legislation - Marriage Scandals - Livia his New Wife

7th day: Ludi Saeculares - Religious Reforms - Augustus as Pontifex Maximus - Theatre of Marcellus 

8th day: Augustus as Pater Patriae (2 BCE) - Rome as the Center of the World - Th Altar of Augustan Piece (Ara Pacis)

9th day: Literary Circle of Maecenas (Virigl - Livy - Ovid) - Augustus as Controler of Myth and History

10th day: Octavia - Marcellus - Agrippa 

11th day: Drusus the Elder and Tiberius under Augustus - Tiberius in Self-Exile

12th day: Julia - Caius and Lucius Caesar - Agrippa Postumus - Return of Tiberius

13th day: Augiustan italy and Roman Acculturation

14th day: Augustan Gaul

15th day: Augustan Spain and North Africa

16th day: Augustus in the East

17th day: Temples of Augustus in the East

18th day: From Augustus to Tiberius - Mausoleum of Augustus - Augustus' Death, Funeral
and Will 

19th day: Res Gestae divi Augusti (the self-praising auto-biography of Augustus)

A Fourth Part of this series of Multi-Day Roman History Classes is offered focused on the Julio-Claudian Dynasty from 14 to ca. 54 CE