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History: Rome, Italy
The Legacy of the Ancient Romans

July 14 - August 7, 2008

History-Rome Instructor Bio

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UCLA Professor Robert Gurval graduated with a B.A. in Classics at Brown University (1980) and later earned his M.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1982) and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (1988). He is the author of Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War (The University of Michigan Press, 1995). His research interests converge on issues of politics, literature and culture in the Roman world of the Caesars. His current book project, Tokens of Authority: Politics, Culture and Ideology on the Coins of Augustus, will examine the imagery and political language found on early imperial Roman coinage. He has served as Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics from 2000-2005. At the undergraduate level, he teaches a wide range of lower and upper division Classical Civilization and Latin language courses. His Classical Civilization courses have included: Discovering the Romans; Cinema and the Ancient World; Ancient Epic; Ancient Lives: The Art of Biography; The Female in Roman Thought.