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Literature and Culture – Myths and Beliefs (for examination in 2026, 2027 and 2028) 12 Sessions | 10 Study Questions
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1. Myths and Beliefs – An Overview
1. Overview: Myths and Beliefs General resources Advice when looking at literary and material sources
2. Roman Gods (1) Livy, Ad Urbe Condita 22.10.9 (11) Jupiter and Mercury visit an old couple, Baucis and Philemon. Ovid Metamorphoses 8 626–631
3. (111) Gilt bronze head of Minerva Roman sculpture Integration of other gods into Roman pantheon Roman baths
4. State Religion Temple of Jupiter, Pompeii
5. (11) The Emperor Marcus Aurelius makes a sacrifice Animal sacrifice and its role in state and private religion
6. Beliefs in the afterlife Tombs, Pompeii (11)Ovid Fasti 2.533-570 (111) CIL 6. 35887, Rome Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian Funeral arrangements Ancestors ( mos maiorum) Festivals of the Dead (Parentalia; Lemuria) Reading funeral inscriptions
7. Aeneas, Romulus and Remus Ovid Metamorphoses 13.623-28 Stories about the foundation of Rome Aeneas in Homer The connections to Aeneas of Julius Caesar and Augustus Virgil’s Aeneid and Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
8. (11) Aeneas escapes from Troy (as depicted by Bernini, the early 1600s AD) Visual representations of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius: Roman coins The Forum of Augustus Pietas
9. (111) A she-wolf looks after Romulus and Remus The Life of Romulus Festivals and rituals connected with Romulus
10. (IV) Extracts from Virgil, Aeneid, 6.268f
11. (v) Extracts from Livy, History of Rome, 1.4–6
Literature and Culture – The Romans in Britain (for examination in 2027 and 2028) 9 Sessions | 7 Study Questions

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