# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand how political leaders can construct various different roles to appeal to as many people as possible
- understand the key role that visual representation and dress plays in these roles
- show knowledge about the personality and history of Rome’s first emperor Augustus, and some of the ways in which he consolidated his power
- analyse images and source texts, and compare them to one another.

OpenLearn - The many guises of the emperor Augustus
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