Syllabus

The City of Rome: The archaeology, history and topography of an imperial Capital

 Fall 2013, Tuesday 4:15-6:15

Room: 3305

CLAS 74400 (ART 82000 & MALS 74500)

Instructor: E. Macaulay-Lewis

Office 4110, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Office Hours: 2:30-4 pm Tuesdays and by appointment

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: 1-646-334-5916 (please don’t call after 9 pm)

Course Description

Rome was the pre-imminent political, economic, social and cultural heart of the Mediterranean, much of Europe, and large swaths of the Near East from the first century BCE until the early fourth century CE when Constantinople was established. In order to understand many aspects of the Roman Empire’s history, economy, cultural mores, literary output and artistic developments, it is essential to understand the capital. Thus, this seminar explores the city of Rome from 753 BCE to 410 CE primarily through an in-depth investigation of the art, architecture and archaeology of the capital itself.  Much of the art and architecture associated with the Roman Empire originated in Rome (e.g., imperial portraiture system and historical reliefs), or had its most impressive examples here (e.g., the Colosseum). Students will be introduced to recent archaeological discoveries and how these have reshaped our understanding of ancient Rome. The seminar will provide a chronological and topographical overview of the city’s development, while focusing on certain aspects of the ancient city each week, including the artistic and architectural programs of the Imperial Fora, public entertainment buildings, and the nature of the capital’s economy. The class will visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (visit TBC) and the American Numismatic Society in order to gain a fuller appreciation of the role that material culture has to play in our understanding of ancient Rome. Although this course focuses primarily on the archaeology of the City of Rome, students will be required to engage with other classes of evidence, including epigraphy, poetry, historical sources, legal texts and numismatics. This interdisciplinary approach enables scholars and students to interpret and analyze ancient Rome, its artistic production, history and topography more fully. This course should provide students interested in the history, literature and arts of the Late Republic and/or the Empire with a firm foundation in the historical debates over art, architecture and archaeology, as well as a nuanced understanding of the city’s topography, urban development, infrastructure, economy and history.

Aims and Learning Goals

  1. To demonstrate a knowledge of the topography of Rome and the major classes of evidence for understanding Roman topography.
  2. To demonstrate an understanding of major scholarly debates and the historiography of Roman topography.
  3. To formulate and answer research questions about the topography of Rome.

Course Requirements

  1. Informed contributions to class based on a thoughtful consideration of the assigned readings.
  2. Attendance at the visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (to be scheduled in advance) and the American Numismatic Society.
  3. Contributions to the class blog (Cityofrome.commons.gc.cuny.edu); everyone is expected to contribute to the class blog on a weekly basis.
  4. A 2500 word critique of several scholarly works, selected from the suggested readings or the larger bibliography.
    1. This paper must be double spaced and submitted with the student’s name and word count on the first page (word count does not include bibliography or figure captions)
    2. This paper should be discussed in advance with the instructor
    3. All work must be submitted electronically before Class on October 22nd 2013
    4. HARD COPIES – DUE October 22nd 2013 IN CLASS
    5. This paper may be rewritten and resubmitted (students have two weeks from the date that the paper is returned to resubmit it with revisions)
    6. A 4000-5000 word paper – you can select one of the two options
      1. Explication of a text in relation to a topographical question or issue OR
      2. Exploration of a building, site or topographical issue through archaeological evidence and its significance for understanding the topography of Rome
      3. Notes for this paper:

i.     The paper must be double space and submitted with the student’s name and word count on the first page (word count does not include bibliography or figure captions). Paper must not exceed 5000 words.

ii.     If submitting images, please create a separate file with figure numbers and captions. All images must be cited.

iii.     All work must be submitted electronically.

iv.     Due December 17th 2013 at 9 am.

****All late work will be marked down by 1/3 of a grade (i.e. A to A-) unless an extension is asked for at least 24 hours in advance of the deadline****

****Extensions will only be granted with good reason****

Communications will be done via the CUNY Academic Commons (please sign up with your gc email account) and blogging will be on the blogging page.

Text Books (Please purchase, but are also on reserve at the GC):

  1. Coulston, J. C., and Hazel Dodge. 2000. Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology.
  2. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

An extended bibliography and webography is located here.

Week 1 (9/3) – Introduction to historiography, evidence and approaches to the topography of Rome

Suggested Readings

  1. Coulston, J. and Dodge, H. 2000. “Introduction: the archaeology and topography of Rome ” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1-16.
  2. Richardson, Lawrence, Jr. 1992. “Introduction.” A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, xvii-xxvi. + book review in BMCR (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1993/04.04.23.html)
  3. Lanciani, Rodolfo. 1888. Ancient Rome in the light of recent discoveries. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
  4. Rome Reborn Project: http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
  5. Haselberger, Lothar, and Dean Abernathy. 2006. Imaging ancient Rome: documentation, visualization, imagination : proceedings of the Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture, Rome, on May 20-23, 2004. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology.

Week 2 (9/10)- Early Rome: evidence for early Roman topography, foundation, religion and the boundaries of the city

Required Readings

  1. Smith, Christopher. 2000. “Early and Archaic Rome” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 16-42.
  2. Holloway, R. Ross. 1994. The archaeology of early Rome and Latium. London: Routledge, 1-102. (pdf)
  3. Boethus, Alex. Etruscan Rome, 103-113 (pdf)
  4. Ammerman, Albert. 1990. On the origins of the Roman Forum. American Journal of Archaeology 94:627–645 (PDF/ Jstor)

Suggested Readings

  1. Cornell, Tim. 1995. The beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). London: Routledge.
  2. Curi, E 2000. “From Concoridia to the Quirinal: notes on religion and politics in mid-republican/hellenistic Rome.” In Religion in archaic and republican Rome and Italy: evidence and experience. Edited by Edward Bispham and Christopher J Smith.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 77-91. (pdf)
  3. Potts, Charlotte. The Development and Architectural Significance of Early Etrusco-Italic Podia, BABESCH, 86, (2011), 41-52.
  4. Walbank, F. W., et al., eds. The Cambridge Ancient History. 2nd ed. Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Cambridge Histories Online. Web. 24 May 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521234467 (see chapters by Momigliano, Cornell, North)

Week 3 (9/17) -The Republican City: the Roman Forum, topographies and power dynamics

Required Readings

  1. Cornell, Tim. 2000. “The City of Rome in the Middle Republic (400-100 BC)” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 42-61.
  2. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 63-104.
  3.  Miller, Fergus. 1989 “Political Power in Mid-Republican Rome: Curia or Comitium?”( Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders by Kurt A. Raaflaub; Die Entstehung der Nobilität: Studien zur Sozialen und Politischen Geschichte der Römischen Republik im 4. Jhdt. v. Chr by K.-J. Hölkeskamp, pp. 138-150. (pdf)
  4. Patterson, John. R. 1992. “The City of Rome: From Republic to Empire” The Journal of Roman Studies , Vol. 82, 186-215. (pdf)
  5. Purcell, Nicholas. 1995a. Forum Romanum (the Republican period). In LTUR (Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae), Vol. 2. Edited by E. M. Steinby, 325–336. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. (pdf)
  6. Purcell, Nicholas. 1995b. Forum Romanum (the Imperial Period). In LTUR, (Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae), Vol. 2. Edited by E. M. Steinby, 336–342. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Nünnerich-Asmus, Annette. 1994. Basilika und Portikus: Die Architektur der Säulenhallen als Ausdruck gewandelter Urbanität in später Republik und früher Kaiserzeit. Cologne: Böhlau.
  2. Welch, Katherine E. 2003. “A new view of the origins of the Basilica: The Atrium Regium, Graecostasis, and Roman diplomacy.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 16:5–34.
  3. Newsome, David. 2001. “Movement and Fora – Late Republic to the First Century C.E.” Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: movement and space, edited by Laurence, Ray, and David J. Newsome. Corby: Oxford University Press, 290-311.
  4. Diane Favro and Christopher Johanson, 2010. “Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , Vol. 69, No. 1 (March 2010), 12-37 (pdf, but access via Jstor for multi-media content).

Week 4 (9/24) – Augustan Rome: urban development, art, image and ideology

Required Readings:

  1. Primary Source: Res Gestae Augustae (the mother of all inscriptions)

http://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html (can be downloaded)

  1. “The Moral Museum: Augustus and the city of Rome” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 61-75.
  2. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 177-180, 197-219.
  3. Hannestad, Niels. 1988. Roman art and imperial policy. Århus C [Denmark]: Aarhus University Press. 62-74. (pdf)
  4. Josephine Shaya. 2013. The Public Life of Monuments: The Summi Viri of the Forum of Augustus American Journal of Archaeology , Vol. 117, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 83-110. (pdf)
  5. Zink, Stephan. 2008. Reconstructing the Palatine Temple of Apollo: A Case Study in Early Augustan Temple Design. Journal of Roman Archaeology 21:47–63. (pdf)
  6. Quenemoen, Caroline. 2006. “The Portico of the Danaids: A New Reconstruction,” American Journal of Archaeology , Vol. 110, No. 2 (Apr.), 229-250. (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Zanker, Paul. 1988. The power of images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  2. Favro, Diane G. 1996. The urban image of Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. Geiger, Joseph. 2008. The first hall of fame a study of the statues in the Forum Augustum. Leiden: Brill. (available via ebrary.com on the Mina Rees Website, esp. Chapters 4 and 5, 53-162)
  4. Haselberger, Lothar, David Gilman Romano, Elisha Ann Dumser, and D. Borbonus. 2002. Mapping Augustan Rome. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
  5. Haselberger, Lothar, and Alexander Thein. 2007. Urbem adornare: die Stadt Rom und ihre Gestaltumwandlung unter Augustus = Rome’s urban metamorphosis under Augustus. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
  6. Galinsky, K. 1996 Augustan Culture. Princeton.
  7. F. Millar and E. Segal (eds), Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects (Oxford, 1984)
  8. Rehak, Paul, and John G. Younger. 2006. Imperium and cosmos Augustus and the northern Campus Martius. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10225531
  9. Haselberger et al, 2011. “Debate on the Horologium of Augustus,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 24, 47-98.
  10. La Rocca, Eugenio, Vivien Ruesch, and Bruno Zanardi. 1983. Ara Pacis Augustae: In occasione del restauro della fronte orientale. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider.
  11. Simon, Erika. 1967. Ara Pacis Augustae. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society.
  12. For further bibliography on the Ara Pacis, see the Oxford Bibliography Online for Ara Pacis Augustae

Week 5 (10/1) – Imperial Fora

Required Readings

  1. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 161-196.
  2. Ulrich, Roger B. 1993. Julius Caesar and the creation of the Forum Iulium. American Journal of Archaeology 97:49–80. (pdf)
  3. Packer, James E. 1997. The Forum of Trajan in Rome: A study of the monuments in brief. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. (52-85,174-191).
  4. Packer, James E. 2003. Templum Divi Traiani parthici et Plotinae: A debate with R. Meneghini. Journal of Roman Archaeology 16:109–136. (pdf)
  5. Noreña, Carlos F. “Medium and Message in Vespasian’s Templum Pacis” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , Vol. 48, (2003), pp. 25-43 (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Anderson, James. C, Jr. 1984. The historical topography of the Imperial Fora. Brussels: Latomus.
  2. D’Ambra, Eve. 1993. Private lives, imperial virtues: The frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.
  3. LaRocca, Eugenio, Roberto Meneghini, et al. 2001. “Fori Imperiali” Römische Mitteilungen 108:171–283.
  4. LaRocca, Eugenio. 2004. “Templum Traiani et columna cochlis.” Römische Mitteilungen 111:193–238.
  5. Meneghini, Roberto, and Riccardo Santangelo Valenziani, eds. 2006. Roma: Lo scavo dei fori imperiali: I contesti ceramici. Rome: École Française de Rome.
  6. Zanker, P. 1968. Forum Augustum: das Bildprogramm. Tübingen, Germany: Wasmuth.
  7. Pollard, Elizabeth A. (2009). “Pliny’s Natural History and the Flavian Templum Pacis: Botanical Imperialism in First-Century C. E. Rome” Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep.), 309-338  (pdf)

Week 6 (10/8) – The Campus Martius: public parks, the Pantheon and Rome’s playground

Required Readings

  1. Ancient Source: Martial, Ep. 2.14 – http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book02.htm
  2. Prior, Richard E.  1996. “Going around Hungry: Topography and Poetics in Martial 2.14.”The American Journal of Philology , Vol. 117, No. 1 (Spring) 121-41. (pdf)
  3. Kuttner, A. 1999. “Culture and History at Pompey’s Museum” Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) Vol. 129, 343-373 (pdf)
  4. The Pompey Project: http://www.pompey.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ – Look at visualizations
  5. Boatwright, Mary T. 1987. Hadrian and the city of Rome. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 33-73. (pdf)
  6. Hetland, Lisa. 2007. Dating the Pantheon. Journal of Roman Archaeology 20:95–112. (pdf)
  7. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 197-258.
  8. Gleason, K. L. 1994. “Porticus Pompeiana: a new perspective on the first public park of ancient Rome.” The Journal of Garden History  14.1, 13-27. (pdf)

 

Suggested Readings

  1. Coarelli, Filippo. 1997. Il Campo Marzio. Rome: Quasar.
  2. Gagliardi, Maria C., and James E. Packer. 2006. A new look at Pompey’s Theater: History, documentation, and recent excavation. American Journal of Archaeology 110.1: 93–122.
  3. Wilson Jones, Mark. 2000. Principles of Roman architecture. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale Univ. Press, esp. 177-213.

**** TUESDAY – 10/15/13 – NO CLASS – Classes follow a Monday schedule ****

Week 7 (10/22) – To live and die like an Emperor: imperial residences and mausolea

**PAPERS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS**

Why are the ancient sources so critical of the Domus Aurea? What does archaeology tell us about the nature of the Domus Aurea and its larger landscape?

Required Readings

  1. Ancient Sources: Tacitus (Annals 15.42)and Suetonius (Nero 31).
    1. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html or   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:phi,1348,016:31 (Suetonius, Nero 31)
    2. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitus/tacitusannals15.html  (Tacitus, Annals, 15.42)
    3. Barton, I. M. 1996. “Palaces” Roman domestic buildings. Ed. I.M. Barton. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 90-120. (pdf)
    4. Hemsoll, David. 1990. “The architecture of Nero’s Golden House.” In Architecture and architectural sculpture in the Roman Empire. Edited by Martin Henig, 10–38. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Committee for Archaeology. (pdf)
    5. Ball, Larry F. 2003. The Domus Aurea and the Roman architectural revolution. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1-27, 219-276. (pdf)
    6. Discoveries in 2009: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1216986/Roman-Emperor-Neros-legendary-rotating-dining-room-uncovered-archaeologists.html
    7. Davies, Penelope J. E. 2000. Death and the emperor: Roman imperial funerary monuments, from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 13-48. (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Segala, Elisabetta, and Ida Sciortino. 1999. Domus Aurea. Milan: Electa.
  2. Gibson, Sheila, Janet DeLaine, and Amanda Claridge. 1994. The Triclinium of the Domus Flavia: A new reconstruction. Papers of the British School at Rome 62:67–97 (pdf)
  3. Medri, Maura. 1996. “Suet. Nero, 31.1: Elementi e proposte per la ricostruzione del progetto della Domus Aurea.” In Meta Sudans I: Un’area sacra in Palatino e la valle del Colosseo prima e dopo Nerone. Edited by Clementina Panella, 165–188. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.
  4. Royo, Manuel. 1999. Domus Imperatoriae: Topographie, formation, et imaginaire des Palais Impériaux du Palatine. Rome: École Française de Rome.
  5. Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike, and Natascha Sojc. 2009. Evoluzione strutturale del Palatino sud-orientale in epoca Flavia. In Divus Vespasianus. Edited by Filippo Coarelli, 268–279. Rome: Mondadori Electa.
  6. Villedieu, Françoise. 2001. Il giardino dei Cesari: dai palazzi antichi alla Vigna Barberini, sul Monte Palatino : scavi dell’École française de Rome, 1985-1999 : guida alla mostra. Roma: Quasar.

Week 8 (10/29) – Visit the American Numismatic Society at 3 pm***Note the earlier time*** (please arrange to come earlier; the vault closes at 5 pm)

Address: American Numismatic Society, 75 Varick Street, floor 11, New York, NY 10013 (Tel: 212 571 4470) (Canal Street Stations are closest; please bring Photo Id)

Map:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=american+numismatic+society&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&ei=zEWvUeeQNsPP0AWP54HABQ&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg

  1. Howgego, C. J. 1995. Ancient history from coins. London: Routledge. http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=178309. 1-35, 56-9,62-87.
  2. Hill, Philip V. 1989. The monuments of ancient Rome as coin types. London: Trafalgar Square. (CUNY reserve)

Week 9 (11/5) – Infrastructure: Aqueducts, streets, and neighborhoods

Special Guest Lecturer: Harry Evans, Professor Emeritus, Fordham University

Required Readings

  1. Frontinus, The Aqueducts of Rome, Book I, for a sense of his writing and his concerns – http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/De_Aquis/text*.html
  2. Dodge, Hazel. 2000. “ ‘Greater than the Pyramids’: the water supply of ancient Rome” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 166-209.
  3. Evans, Harry. “Water Supply and Sewers” (pdf- unpublished article)
  4. Evans, Harry B. 1994. Water distribution in ancient Rome: the evidence of Frontinus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 135-148. (pdf )

Suggested Readings

  1. Taylor, Rabun M. 2000. Public needs and private pleasures: water distribution, the Tiber river and the urban development of ancient Rome. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider.
  2. Hodge, A. Trevor. 2002. Roman aqueducts and water supply. London: Duckworth.
  3. Rodgers, Robert H., ed. 2003. Frontinus: De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  4. Van Deman, Esther Boise. 1934. The building of the Roman aqueducts. [Washington]: Carnegie institution of Washington.

Week 10 (11/12) – The Economics of Empire: Tiber, Monte Testaccio, Ostia and Portus

 Required Readings

  1. Mattingly, D. and Aldrete, G. “The Feeding of imperial Rome of the mechanics of the food supply system.” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 142-66.
  2. Erdkamp, P. 2001. “Beyond the limits of the “consumer city”: A model of the urban and rural economy in the Roman world.” Historia 50.3: 332–356. (pdf)
  3. Peacock, D. P. S., and D. F. Williams. 1986. Amphorae and the Roman economy: an introductory guide. London: Longman, 1-67 (pdf of whole book in dropbox.com)
  4. Aldrete, Gregory S. 2004. Daily life in the Roman city: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. Chapter 13 – Ostia (pdf).
  5. Portus Project, University of Southampton – http://www.portusproject.org/

Suggested Readings

  1. Finley, M. I. 1999. The ancient economy. 3d ed. Sather Classical Lectures 43. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
  2. Witcher, R. 2005. The extended metropolis: Urbs, suburbium, and population. Journal of Roman Archaeology 18:120–138
  3. Keay, S. J., and Antonia Arnoldus Huyzendveld. 2005. Portus: and archaeological survey of the port of the Imperial Rome. London: The British School at Rome.  (partial pdf online)
  4. Roman Amphorae: a digital resource  http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/index.cfm
  5. Holleran, Claire. 2012. Shopping in ancient Rome: the retail trade in the late Republic and the principate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  6. Morley, Neville. 1996. Metropolis and hinterland: the city of Rome and the Italian economy, 200 B.C.-A.D. 200. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
  7. Blázquez Martínez, J. M. & Remesal Rodríguez, J. (edd.) (2003) Estudios sobre el Monte Testaccio (Roma) III. Barcelona: , Col.leció Instrumenta 14.  (previous volumes)
  8. Stoger. Hanna. 2011“The Spatial Organization of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia’s Scholae.” in Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: movement and space, edited by Laurence, Ray, and David J. Newsome. Corby: Oxford University Press, 215-242. (pdf)

Week 11 (11/19) – Entertainment and Leisure: the Colosseum and the Imperial Thermae

Required Readings:

  1. Coleman, K. 2000. “Entertaining Rome” in Ancient Rome: the archaeology of the eternal city, edited by Coulston and Dodge. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 210-258.
  2. Welch, Katherine E. 2007. The Roman amphitheatre: from its origins to the Colosseum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 30-71, 128-62. (pdf)
  3. Fagan, Garrett G. 2001. The genesis of the Roman public bath: Recent approaches and future directions. American Journal of Archaeology 105.3: 403–426 (pdf)
  4. Yegül, Fikret K. 1992. Baths and bathing in classical antiquity. New York: Architectural History Foundation. 128-183 (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Bomgardner, D. L. 2000. The story of the Roman amphitheatre. London: Routledge.
  2. Connolly, Peter. 2003. Colosseum: Rome’s arena of death. London: BBC Books.
  3. Humphrey, John. 1986. Roman circuses. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.
  4. Reggiani, Anna Maria, ed. 1988. Anfiteatro Flavio: Immagine testimonianze spettacoli. Rome: Quasar.
  5. DeLaine, Janet. 1998. The Baths of Caracalla: A study in the design, construction and economics of large-scale building projects in imperial Rome, supp. 25. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
  6. Nielsen, Inge. 1993. Thermae et Balnea. 2d ed. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus Univ. Press.
  7. Gutierrez, Diego, et al. 2007. AI and virtual crowds: Populating the Colosseum. Journal of Cultural Heritage 8:176–185. (pdf)
  8. Rose, Peter. 2005. Spectators and spectator comfort in Roman entertainment buildings: A study in functional design. Papers of the British School at Rome 73:99–130. (pdf)

Week 12 (11/26)- The Horti, tombs and the nature of the suburban space

  1. Purcell, Nicholas. 1987. Tomb and suburb. In Römische gräberstrassen: Selbstdarstellungen, status, standard. Edited by Henner von Hesberg and Paul Zanker, 25–41. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (pdf)
  2. Purcell, Nicholas. 1996 “The Roman Garden as a Domestic Building” in Roman domestic buildings. Ed. I.M. Barton. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 121-151. (pdf)
  3. Purcell, Nicholas. 2001. “Dialectical gardening,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 14, 546-56. (pdf)
  4. Champlin, Edward. 1982. “The suburbium of Rome.” American Journal of Ancient History 7:97–117. (pdf)
  5. Goodman, Penelope J. 2007. The Roman city and its periphery: from Rome to Gaul. London: Routledge, 1-38 (39-78 optional). (pdf )

Suggested Readings

  1. Grimal, Pierre. 1969. Les Jardins romains. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2nd Edition (also 1984)
  2. Hartswick, Kim J. 2004. The gardens of Sallust: a changing landscape. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  3. Frass, Monika. 2006. Antike römische Gärten: soziale und wirtschaftliche Funktionen der Horti romani. Horn, Österreich: F. Berger u. Söhne.
  4. Purcell, Nicholas. 2007. ‘The horti of Rome and the landscape of property’, in Res bene gestae: ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby (Festschrift M. Steinby), Rome 2007, 361-78 (pdf)
  5. Cima, Maddalena, and Eugenio La Rocca. 1998. Horti romani: atti del convegno internazionale : Roma, 4-6 maggio 1995. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider.

Week 13 (12/3) – Severan Roman: a second Renaissance and the Severan Marble Plan (FUR)

Required Readings

  1. Visit the Stanford Digital Form Project – http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/
    1. Read “The Map” Page  – excellent introduction http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURmap.html
    2. Browse the database and come prepared to discuss a building that appears on the FUR
    3. Whitmarsh, T. 2007. “Prose Literature and Culture.” In Severan culture. Swain, Simon, S. J. Harrison, and Jas Elsner (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 29-51. (pdf)
    4. Hannestad, Niels. 1988. Roman art and imperial policy. Århus C [Denmark]: Aarhus University Press, 249-84. (pdf)
    5. Newby, Z. 2007 “Arts at the crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan Art.” In Severan culture. Swain, Simon, S. J. Harrison, and Jas Elsner (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 201-49. (pdf)
    6. Thomas, E. 2007. “Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium at Rome between ‘reality’ and ‘fantasy’ ” In Severan culture. Swain, Simon, S. J. Harrison, and Jaś Elsner (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 327-67. (pdf) OR
    7. Lusnia, Susann S.  2004. “Urban Planning and Sculptural Display in Severan Rome: Reconstructing the Septizodium and Its Role in Dynastic Politics” American Journal of Archaeology , Vol. 108, No. 4 (Oct., 2004), pp. 517-544 (pdf)

Suggested Readings

  1. Carettoni, Gianfilippo; Colini, Antonio; Cozza, Lucos; and Gatti, Guglielmo, eds. La pianta marmorea di Roma antica. Forma urbis Romae (Rome 1960) (fundamental work)
  2. Rodríguez Almeida, Emilio. 1981. Forma urbis marmorea: Aggiornamento generale. 2 vols. Rome: Quasar.
  3. Trimble, J. 2007. “Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan.” Severan culture. Swain, Simon, S. J. Harrison, and Jas Elsner (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 368-384.
  4. Rowan, Clare. 2012. Under divine auspices: divine ideology and the visualisation of imperial power in the Severan period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Villedieu, Françoise. 2001. Il giardino dei Cesari: dai palazzi antichi alla Vigna Barberini, sul Monte Palatino : scavi dell’École française de Rome, 1985-1999 : guida alla mostra. Roma: Quasar.

Week 14 (12/10) – Late Antique Rome: The Arch of Constantine, catacombs, conclusions and beyond

  1. Rome Reborn Project: http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
  2. SmartHistory Video: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/arch-of-constantine.html
  3. Elsner, Jaś. 2000. “From the Culture of Spolia to the Cult of Relics: The Arch of Constantine and the Genesis of Late Antique Forms” Papers of the British School at Rome , Vol. 68, 149-184. (pdf)
  4. Marlowe, Elizabeth. 2006.“Framing the Sun: The Arch of Constantine and the Roman Cityscape” The Art Bulletin , Vol. 88, No. 2 (Jun., 2006), pp. 223-242. (pdf)
  5. Grig, Lucy. 2012. “Competing Capitals, Competing Representations” In Two Romes. Grig, Lucy, and Gavin Kelly (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 31-52 (pdf)
  6. Claridge, Amanda. 2010. Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 446-58.
  7. Jensen, R. 2000. Understanding Early Christian Art. London. 1-62 (read 62-93, if time allows) (pdf)

Suggested

  1. Curran, John R. 2000. Pagan city and Christian capital: Rome in the fourth century. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Holloway, R. Ross. 2004. “Arches” Constantine & Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 19-56. Available via ebrary.com but no images.
  3. Lenski, Noel. 2008. Evoking the Pagan Past: Instinctu divinitatis and Constantine’s Capture of Rome. Journal of Late Antiquity Volume 1, Number 2, 204-57. (pdf)

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