论文主题
Paper Topics

本课程要求学生写三篇论文：
Students will be required to write three papers for this course:

论文一
Paper 1

第八课时提交
Due on session 8.

论文长五页，占20%，形式是对塔西佗和（或）苏埃托尼乌斯著作里对奥古斯都和（或）尼罗的论述进行批判性分析。同学可以自选题目或任选以下两者之一：
Five pages in length and worth 20%, this paper will take the form of a critical analysis of the accounts of Augustus and/or Nero in Tacitus and/or Suetonius. Students may devise their own topic or write on one of the following:

1. 「塔西佗笔下的尼罗，与其说是不偏不倚重建历史的偶然结果，不如说是一个文学人物。」根据塔西佗《编年史》13到16卷的内容来讨论这个命题。
   'Tacitus' Nero is a literary figure, rather than the casual result of impartial historical reconstruction.' Discuss this claim with reference to Books 13-16 of Tacitus, Annals.
   
   
2. 「在现代，简朴被认为是苏埃托尼乌斯作品的主要特点，没有其它明显的文学艺术性质。」依据苏埃托尼乌斯所写奥古斯都和尼罗的传记，讨论这命题和苏埃托尼乌斯作为一个超然客观学者的相关看法。
   'In modern times, simplicity has been seen as the main characteristic of Suetonius' writing, in the absence of any obvious literary artistry.' Discuss this claim, and the associated view of Suetonius as a detached and objective scholar, with reference to Suetonius' biographies of Augustus and Nero.

论文二
Paper 2

第15课时提交
Due on session 15.

论文二长五页，占20%，目的在于训练学员的能力，解读帝国时期的艺术和建筑作为创造和传播罗马帝王形象的媒体。
Five pages in length and worth 20%. The aim of the exercise for Paper 2 is to develop your skills in the interpretation of the art and architecture of the Imperial period as a medium through which images of emperors were created and disseminated.

你的论文要着重以下奥古斯都遗迹之一：
Your Paper 2 should focus on one of the following Augustan monuments:

• 和平祭坛
  The Ara Pacis
• Prima Porta的奥古斯都像
  The Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta
• 奥古斯都广场
  The Forum of Augustus

在进一步阐述你选择的遗迹，你应该思考如以下的一些问题：
In developing your interpretation of your chosen monument, you should be thinking about a range of questions including the following:

• 是谁委托制作这些纪念遗迹？
  Who commissioned the monument?
• 这最初是在什么的背景下出现的？
  In what context did the monument originally appear?
• 这描绘了什样的形象？（需要一定数量的简单描述）
  What images are portrayed on the monument (a certain amount of simple description will be required)?
• 它的讯息是否明晰清晰？
  How clear-cut is the message/meaning of the monument?
• 它怎样和你念过的苏埃托尼乌斯、塔西佗、《功绩》的记述有联系？
  How does it relate to what you have encountered in Tacitus, Suetonius, the Res Gestae?

论文还要求你阐述对Zanker论述有关奥古斯都时代形象的理解。Zanker对你所选的遗迹有何说法？他是怎样利用遗迹作为更广泛讨论奥古斯都形象的部份论点？
Demonstrating an understanding of Zanker's argument(s) about images in the Age of Augustus is also required. What does Zanker have to say about your chosen monument? How does he employ the monument as part of his wider argument about the power of images under Augustus?

为了进一步准备论文，你应该阅读Karl Galinsky的《奥古斯都文化》（1996）的相关章节，书中提出另一种观点和Zanker的观点对比。
To help you further in the preparation of your paper, you should read the relevant chapter from Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture (1996), which will provide you with a second opinion with which to compare Zanker.

论文三
Paper 3

第26课时提交
Due on session 26.

论文长十页，占35%，作出更广泛的分析，让学员有机会和空间以较长的文章综合课程各方面。本论文的评分分配如下：第21课时提交内容充实的提纲占5%；有一次在班上作简短陈述报告，以及其后简略讨论你的论点和论据，这占5%（陈述报告在第13周举行）；余下的25%是论文本身。
Ten pages in length and worth 35%, this paper will consist of a wider-ranging analysis and will provide students the opportunity, and space, to bring together various aspects of the course in a longer work of synthesis. The grading of the final paper will be broken down as follows: 5% for a substantial outline of the paper, due on session 21; 5% for a short presentation to the class, followed by a brief discussion, of your argument and the evidence on which it will rest (presentations will take place in Week 13); and the remaining 25% for the paper itself.