| Augustus
- sources of power
- constitutional innovations
- type of emperor
The Ara Pacis - a monument to Rome's first family
The Julio-Claudians
- Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE) (ER: 27 BCE)
- Tiberius (42 BCE - 37 CE) (ER: 14)
- Gaius (Caligula) (12 - 41 CE) (ER: 37)
- Claudius (10 BCE - 54 CE) (ER: 41)
- Nero - (37 CE - 68 CE) (ER: 54)
- dynastic marriages and their offspring
- dynastic events
- the
problem of the julio-claudian succession
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Texts
Monuments
Terms
- relief:
"Technique of sculpting in which the figures are considerably raised
or detached from the background. In a bas-relief the figures are only
slightly raised from the surface."
- frieze:
"The middle of the three main elements of an entablature. A horizontal
band with cornice above and architrave below. In the Doric order it
consists of metope - a square panel sculpted with figures - and triglyph
- panels with three vertical grooves. In the other orders the band of
the frieze is usually continuous and is entirely decorated with sculpted
figures"
Julio-Claudians
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