CCIV 272: Reading Roman Decadence

Molly Pasco-Pranger
Fall 2002 MW 2:40-4:00 Science Center 339

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Couture, Thomas. The Romans of the Decadence.  1847.  Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
<http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/couture/>

The Roman Empire has been associated with decadence from the advent of the modern usage of the term in fin-de-siècle France. Though the Romans themselves did not use the term, the idea of decadence was far from foreign to them. This course will draw on a variety of Roman literary sources and on modern critical and artistic reflection on Roman decadence to explore the idea of decadence as shaped by the Romans.

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