CLAS 130 SC - Roman Decadence

From the Augustan Age onward, the Roman World was sharply divided between a self-created image of order, stability, and propriety, based on Rome's visible political and military achievements, and its increasing involvement with exotic, private, and unconscious forces of disruption and decay. This course will examine closely those so-called "enemies of Roman order": religious cults, superstition, personal corruption and excess, popular violence, the Roman obsession with death, the radical decline from Classical models of life and art. Authors read include Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius.

Course Credit: 1.0

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