{"id":9363,"date":"2018-11-20T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2018-11-22T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:12:14","slug":"werner-eck-lost-augustan-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/20\/werner-eck-lost-augustan-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Werner Eck on &#8216;The Lost Augustan Province of Germany&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Werner Eck, one of the lead historians of our time, recently visited the School of European Culture and Languages and gave a talk entitled \u2018Beyond the Rhine: The Lost Augustan Province of Germany\u2019, in association with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical and Archaeological studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this wide-ranging lecture on the lost Augustan province of Germany, he reviewed the original intentions of Augustus in stabilising the Empire&#8217;s northern frontier, drawing on texts, epigraphy, and the latest archaeological evidence, to free us from the hindsight of Roman historians, who wished to cover up what became Rome&#8217;s greatest failure. This story, of Herman the German (Arminius), and the rise of &#8216;Free Germany&#8217; has long played a key role in the German national myth.<\/p>\n<p>Just one example of the range of opportunities provided by the School of European Culture &amp; Languages for students to interact with and learn from experts in their field of study, this lecture was a result of the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies&#8217; dynamic outreach programme.\u00a0A full recording of the lecture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/player.kent.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=5142c2b4-67b6-4a22-93f4-a9980118f63f&amp;fbclid=IwAR13ROVsVY3d6ZH8zen8XbF2KPQe52iYOAwreCEdw597Nf66-8Cn5S2vqAs\">is available online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including MA programmes that include a term at Kent&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/rome\/index.html\">Rome School of Classical and Renaissance Studies<\/a>\u00a0as well as an 18-month programme at our centre in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/locations\/athens\/\">Athens<\/a>. Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\">www.kent.ac.uk\/courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Werner Eck, one of the lead historians of our time, recently visited the School of European Culture and Languages and gave a talk entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/20\/werner-eck-lost-augustan-province\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[206948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/9386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}