About
This site was created as part of a 2018 project for the Classics 344 paper: From Augustus to Nero: Scandal and Intrigue in Imperial Rome, taught at the University of Otago by Dr Gwynaeth McIntyre. The paper aims to provide students with an extended knowledge of the Julio-Claudian Emperors through the examination of the literary text, inscriptions coins and art. This website focuses on the coins issued by the Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero and how they manipulated their image through propaganda. This project aims to extend our knowledge of numismatics and to design a website that the general public can access to aid further study and research. The website is designed to be understood by people with little or limited knowledge of the Emperors and use of coins in Roman history as propaganda. As a group, we decided to analyse the use of propaganda through Roman coins and how many of the Julio-Claudian Emperors used this to their advantage to manipulate the distribution of information to the wider public in order to improve their own image. This project was completed by a group of 200-300 level students studying Classics as part of their internal assessment. The students would like to thank the Otago Museum for allowing the access and photography of the coins in their collection, Charlotte Dunn for photographing the collections, and Gwynaeth McIntyre for providing the materials and an introduction to the Omeka website, as well as sharing her knowledge of Roman Empires and numismatics produced during the time of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Dione Barratt, Anna van Hattum, Megan Martin, Sam Wallis, Victoria Kurtovich