Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
week 1) Jan 21 | Course Syllabus and Procedures and Introduction. On-site: Rome's Topography: Seven Hills, Tiber and Tiber Island.
| Coarelli 1-11 (Introduction) | Claridge 1-11, 31-59, 226-28 (Tiber Island), 394-397; Ramage introd.; | MP: GK12 at 9:15 for introduction and then we go on-site!! |
week 2) Jan 28 MICcard | From Romulus to Caesar: Early and Republican Rome, Capitoline Hill and Museums. | Coarelli 29-43 (Capitoline), 43-47 (Roman Forum: Historical notes) | Ramage ch.2; Claridge 6-11, 60-74 (Roman Forum), Capitoline: 229-231, 231-240 | MP: on Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio) at top of stair case, near museum entrance |
week 3) Feb 4 | Etruscan Art and Culture in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. | Ramage ch.1; Rasmussen 13-25 in: Henig, ch.1 (Early Roman Art); Brendel, Etruscan art, ch. 19 sculpture in terracotta | Claridge 394-397; Spivey, Etruscan Art (regarding especially material of Cervetrei and Veii) | MP: Piazza del Popolo, near obelisk, class moves together to the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia |
week 4) Feb 11 | The Roman Forum and The Palatine Hill from the Kings' period through the Republican to early Imperial. | Coarelli 131-157 (Palatine), 47-57, 63-81, 97-98 (Roman Forum). | Ramage ch.5 Claridge 16-17, 116-145, 267-284, 290-93 (Nero's Golden House); | MP: entrance to Forum Romanum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 5) Feb 18 | From Roman Republic to Empire. Along The triumphal road. | Coarelli 261-285 (Campus Martius I), 307-321 (Forum Holitorium and Forum Boarium) | Claridge 177-180 (introd. Field of Mars), 214-228, 243-247; Strong ch.2 & 3 | MP: Largo Argentina, in front of Feltrinelli bookstore |
week 6) Feb 25 MICcard | Augustus and the Imperial Idea: the Augustan Campus Martius (Field of Mars) | Coarelli 285-291, 299-304 (Augustan Campus Martius); Zanker, P., Power of Images, 33-43. 118-125, 143-162, 172-183, 335-339; | Ramage ch.3 & 4; Galinsky ch.4; Claridge 11-18, Field of Mars: introd. and Augustan monuments (Mausoleum, Altar of Peace, Sundial, early Pantheon). | MP: Museum of Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta (corner Via Tomacelli); near Ponte Cavour |
week 7) March 3 !! meets early at 8:25 !! | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: GK11 at 8:25 !! |
week 8) March 10 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | | | |
week 9) March 17 MICcard | Trajan and the Imperial Fora, Column and Markets. | Coarelli 102-128 (Imperial Fora) | DUE: Paper's topic !! Ramage ch.6 (Trajan); Claridge 11-18, 146-173; | MP: Column of Trajan (near Piazza Venezia) |
week 10) March 24 | The Field of Mars and the High Empire.
!! VISUAL ANALYSIS done during class !! | Coarelli 261-266, 286-298 (central Campus Martius) | Ramage ch.7 & 8; Claridge 17-20, 177-228 (Field of Mars), 369-373 (Mausoleum of Hadrian); MacDonald, Pantheon; | MP: in front of Pantheon |
week 11) March 31 starts earlier!! | Ostia Antica, the Port or Rome. Fieldtrip.
| Coarelli 451-476; Stambaugh ch.18 | helpful for reviewing material after visit: www.ostia-org; | MP: at train station in Ostia Antica! Take the Roma-Lido train from Piazzale Ostiense no later than 8:40 !! |
week 12) April 7 | The Centre in the Later Empire and The Colosseum (from outside). | Coarelli 43-47, 57-63, 81-97, 98-101 (Roman Forum high and late imperial),159-172 (Colosseum et.c.) 177-190 (Oppian Hill) | Ramage ch. 9 -12; Claridge 20-27, 70, 75-76, 83, 109-111, 115, 272-276, 284-288, 332-335 (Aurelianic Walls), 346-350; | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 13) April 14 | Embellishing the City: Roman Painting and Sculpture in the Palazzo Massimo; and Baths of Diocletian. Paper presentation.
| Coarelli 247-252 (Castra Praetoria and Baths of Diocletian); La Regina, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, 9-13, 23-34, 40-42, 47-48, 87-92, 94-101, 166-7 (portraiture), 51-57 (painted frieze), 59-62 (Altar and Augustus), 121 124, 129, 130, 132, 136, 144 (sculpture), 180-206 (mosaics), 208-335 (wall paintings), 254-258 (marble intarsio). | DUE: Paper's brief oral presentation !! . . . . Claridge 352-354 (Baths of Diocletian); Portraiture: review Ramage 42-45, 77-81, 107-112, 138-141; Wall paintings and Mosaics: review Ramage 82-95, 123-131, 152. | MP: Piazza Repubblica, in front of Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli |
week 14) April 21 | Constantine the Great: from Pagan to Christian.
Paper due. | Coarelli 159-163 (Arch of Constantine), 172-175 (San Clemente), 213-223 (Caelian Hill), 224-227 (Lateran), | DUE: Paper's final draft !! Claridge 272-275, 283-288, 347-350; Ramage ch12; | MP: Arch of Constantine |
week 15) April 28 | The Baths of Caracalla. Course conclusion and Review of our semester! | Coarelli 11-27 (City Walls), 326-331 (Baths of Caracalla), 365-367 (Via Appia). | Prepare course material following the study guide! | MP: Circus Maximus, at curve (east side) |
week 16) tba | FINAL EXAM | | | MP: tba |
| RECOMMENDED BOOKS: | Beard, M. and Henderson, J. (2001) Classical Art.
Boardman, J. ed. (1993), Oxford History of Classical Art
Boardman, J.ed. (2001), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World.
| Coulston, J. and Dodge, H. eds. (2000) Ancient Rome:The Archaeology of the Eternal City. | |
| | D’Ambra, E. ed. (1993) Roman Art in Context.
Davies, P. (2000) Death and the Emperor.
| Elsner, J. (1998) Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph.
Favro, D. (1996)The Urban Image of Augustan Rome.
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