1 Introduction To Roman Art History 12 Regal Period, 753-509 BCE 18The Etruscans and the Question of Etruscan Dominance3 The Early Republic, 509-211 BCE 48The Spread of Roman Power and Forms4 The Later Republic, 211-31 BCE 81The Origins of a Hellenistic Roman Culture5 The Age of Augustus, 31 BCE-14 CE 124The Art of Empire6 The Julio-Claudians, 14-68 CE 159The Rise of Roman Dynastic Art7 The Flavians, 69-96 CE 197Civil War, Disaster, and Response8 Trajan and Hadrian, 98-138 CE 235Emperors from the Provinces9 Antonine Emperors, 138-192 CE 272From an Empire of Gold to One of Rust10 Civil War and Severan Dynasty, 193-235 CE 303Calm before the Storm11 The Third Century and The Tetrarchy, 235-306 CE 336Crisis and Renewal12 Constantine, 306-337 CE 371Christian Empire and the Decline of the West
STEVEN L. TUCK is Professor of History and Classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Roman art, particularly Roman sculpture. He has published research on Latin epigraphy, spectacle entertainments in the Roman world, and the survivors of the Vesuvius eruption of AD 79. He has written and recorded five courses on the ancient world for The Great Courses, and has received 9 awards for undergraduate teaching, including the E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award and the Archaeological Institute of America Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.