1 CLAS1301 Monuments and Memory in The Age of Augustus - Exam Paper

Examination Paper
Examination Year: Exam Code:

Session: 2021 CLAS1301-WE01
May/June
Title: Monuments and Memory in the Age of Augustus
Release Date/Time 19 May 2021 – 09:30
Latest Submission Date/Time 20 May 2021 – 09:30
Format of Exam Take home exam
Duration: Within the 24 hour window, it is expected that you will spend
approximately 3 hours in total on this paper
Word/Page Limit: We expect essays to be in the range of 1000-1300 words; there
is an absolute maximum word-limit of 1700 words (10% leeway
as detailed in the UG handbook does not apply)
We expect commentaries to be in the range of 400-600 words;

there is an absolute maximum word-limit of 700 words (10%
leeway as detailed in the UG handbook does not apply)
Additional Material provided:
Expected form of Submission Word Document using template provided or PDF of handwritten
work (PDF option applies to Greek language exams only)
Your uploaded file should be named with your student ID and
the Exam Code e.g 000123456 CLAS1111-WE01
Submission method Turnitin
Instructions to Candidates: Candidates should attempt ALL THREE questions.

Marking scheme:
 Question 1 (commentaries): 30 marks (10 marks for each
commentary)
 Question 2 (essay): 35 marks
 Question 3 (essay): 35 marks
This exam counts for 100% of the overall assessment for the
module
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Question 1: Comment on the context, content and significance of THREE of the following passages.
You must select at least one text (a-d) and at least one image (e-h).
a)
MELIBOEUS:
As for us, we’re forced to leave home – scattered abroad, some to thirsty Africa,
Some till they reach the Scythians, or the chalk-rich waters of swift Oaxes, some
Even as far as the Britons, they who dwell out on the distant edges of the world.
Alas! Shall I ever see again, long years from now, the borders of my country,
My humble homestead with its turf-clad roof? Shall I see again
In later years my erstwhile kingdom and the modest harvest of its fields?
Will some blaspheming soldier now possess my fallow fields, once lovingly tilled?
Or some barbarian harvest my crops? That’s the price we pay, we wretched citizens,
For civil discord. Ours was the labour sowing in the fields; theirs the reward.
Vergil Eclogue 1.64-72
b)
And now I have constructed a work, which neither the anger of Jupiter nor fire
nor sword nor devouring length of time will be able to blot out.
When it wishes, let that day, which has no power except over this body,
finish the span of my uncertain age;
yet with the better part of me perennial above the high
stars I shall be carried, and my name will be indestructible,
and wherever Roman power spreads over the conquered lands,
I shall be read on the lips of the people, and through all ages in fame,
if the prophecies of prophets have any truth, I will survive.
Ovid Metamorphoses 15.871-9 (tr. Jennifer Ingleheart)
c)
May it be good, favourable and prosperous for Imperator Caesar Augustus, son of the Deified,
Father of the Fatherland, chief priest, in his 34th year of tribunician power, for his wife, children and
family, and for the senate and Roman people and for the colonists and inhabitants of the Julian
Ancestral Colony of Narbo Martius, who have bound themselves to worship his divinity [numen] for
ever. The people of Narbo have set up an altar at Narbo in the forum, at which, each year on 23
September, on which day the good fortune of the age brought him forth as governor of the world,
three Roman equestrians from the commoners and three freedmen are to sacrifice a victim each
and are to supply at their own expense to colonists and inhabitants on this day incense and wine for
worshipping his divinity [numen]; and on 24 September they are also to supply incense and wine to
colonists and inhabitants; also on 1 January they are to supply incense and wine to colonists and
inhabitants; also on 7 January, on which day he first entered upon his rule over the world [imperium
orbis terrarum], they are to worship with incense and wine and sacrifice a victim each and supply
incense and wine to colonists and inhabitants on this day.
Part of an inscription on an altar to the numen of Augustus, Narbonne, ILS 112
CONTINUED
d)
As a young man Augustus was accused of various improprieties. For instance, Sextus Pompey
jeered at his effeminacy; Mark Antony alleged that Julius Caesar made him submit to intercourse at
the price of adoption; Antony’s brother Lucius added that, after sacrificing his virtue to Caesar,
Augustus had sold his favours to Aulus Hirtius, the governor of Spain, for 300,000 sesterces, and
that he used to soften the hairs on his legs by singeing them with red-hot walnut shells. One day at
the theatre, when an actor came on the stage representing a eunuch priest of the Mother of the
Gods and, as he played his drum, another actor exclaimed, ‘Do you see how this shameless man
regulates the world with his finger?’, the audience mistook the line for a hint at Augustus and broke
into enthusiastic support.
Suetonius Life of Augustus 68
e)
Statue group of Venus and Mars, Rome, Museo delle Terme
CONTINUED
f)
Legend on obverse: AVGVSTVS DIVI F (Augustus, Son of the Deified)

Legend on reverse: IMP X (Hailed imperator for the tenth time)
aureus minted 15-12 BC, RIC Augustus 164a
g)
Legend on obverse: IMP CAESAR DIVI F COS VI (Imperator Caesar, Son of the Deified, consul
for the sixth time)
Legend on reverse: LEGES ET IVRA P R RESTITVIT (he has restored to the Roman People their
laws and rights)
aureus minted 28 BC, BM CM 1995.4-1.1
CONTINUED
h)
Relief of Apolline triad, Villa Albani
Question 2: Answer ONE of the following essay questions.
a) “Virgil continually insists on the public glory of the Roman achievement, the establishment
of peace and order and civilization […] But he insists equally on the terrible price one must
pay for this glory” (Parry 1963). Do you agree with Parry’s interpretation of the Aeneid? If
so, why? If not, why not?
b) Discuss the representation of Cleopatra in Augustan poetry.
c) To what extent does Vitruvius' work De architectura reflect elements of Augustan ideology?
d) What were the causes of the Roman civil wars in Horace’s analysis? To what extent do you
agree with his analysis?
Question 3: Answer ONE of the following essay questions.
a) What do the Res Gestae tell us about religion under Augustus?
b) What was the Forum Augustum for?
c) How far does the archaeological evidence illustrate Augustus’ plans for the succession?
d) Is it fair to say that Augustus’ foreign policy was simply a matter of aggressive imperialism?
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Examination Paper

Examination Year: Exam Code:

Title: Monuments and Memory in the Age of Augustus

Release Date/Time 19 May 2021 – 09:30

Latest Submission Date/Time 20 May 2021 – 09:30

Format of Exam Take home exam

We expect commentaries to be in the range of 400-600 words;

Instructions to Candidates: Candidates should attempt ALL THREE questions.

Vergil Eclogue 1.64-72

Ovid Metamorphoses 15.871-9 (tr. Jennifer Ingleheart)

Part of an inscription on an altar to the numen of Augustus, Narbonne, ILS 112

Suetonius Life of Augustus 68

Statue group of Venus and Mars, Rome, Museo delle Terme

Legend on obverse: AVGVSTVS DIVI F (Augustus, Son of the Deified)

aureus minted 15-12 BC, RIC Augustus 164a

aureus minted 28 BC, BM CM 1995.4-1.1

Relief of Apolline triad, Villa Albani

Question 2: Answer ONE of the following essay questions.

b) Discuss the representation of Cleopatra in Augustan poetry.

Question 3: Answer ONE of the following essay questions.

a) What do the Res Gestae tell us about religion under Augustus?

b) What was the Forum Augustum for?

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