Weekly Schedule
Week 1
Lecture: Course Introduction
Meeting Place: JCU Classroom
Week 2
Lecture: Early Rome; City Boundaries; Death and Burial Site Visits: Circus
Maximus, the Palatine Hill, the Aventine Hill, the Servian Walls, the Pyramid,
and the Aurelianic Walls
Readings: Stambaugh, Introduction and Chapters One and Fifteen, and Claridge,
Introduction and Historical Overview; Chronological Table (pp. 494 – 496)
Meeting Place: On the Pons Fabricius (the bridge connecting
Tiber Island to the historic city center)
Week 3
Lecture: The Roman Republic through Julius Caesar; Rome’s Population &
Water; Society and Freedom
Meeting Place: The Tower in Largo Argentina
Site Visits: Theater of Pompey
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapters Three and Six
Week 4
Lecture: Roman Religion
Meeting Place: The Tower in Largo Argentina
Site Visits: Victory Temples in Largo Argentina, Republican Lower Campus
Martius, Tomb of Bibulus, the Capitoline Hill: Temple of Jupiter Optimus
Maximus, Asylum, and Tabularium
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapters Two, Thirteen and Fourteen, and Claridge, Section
“Capitoline Hill” (pp. 259 – 273), and individual entries as appropriate for
site visits
Week 5
Lecture: Architecture Walk; Roman Building Methods and Materials; The Triumphal
Parade and Route
Meeting Place: Outside the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin/La Bocca della
Verita’
Site Visits: Forum Boarium, Theater of Marcellus, Porticus of Octavia,
Excavations at Sant’Omobono, Circus Flaminius location, Fabricius’ Bridge,
Tiber Island, and the Cloaca Maxima
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapter Seventeen, and Claridge, Glossary (pp. 39 – 62),
and Section “Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus“ (pp. 274 – 300), and
individual entries as appropriate for site visits
Week 6
Lecture: Augustan Rome I; City Centers & City Planning; Roman Arts &
Propaganda
Meeting Place: Roman Forum, entrance opposite the via Cavour
Site Visits: Forum Romanum, Forum of Julius Caesar, Forum of Augustus
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapters Four and Seven, and Claridge, Section “The Roman
Forum” (pp. 62 – 103), and and individual entries as appropriate for site
visits
Week 7
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8
PAPER TOPICS DUE
Lecture: Rome of the Julio-Claudians and Flavians; Public Venues and Roman
Housing
Meeting Place: Outside the Metro B “Colosseo” stop
Site Visits: Colosseum, Ludus Magnus, Forum of Peace, Forum Transitorium, Arch
of Titus, Palatine Hill (Domus Aurea, Domus Tiberiana, Palace of Domitian,
House of Augustus, Hut of Romulus, Republic Mansions)
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapters Five and Ten, and Claridge, Sections “The Upper
Via Sacra” and “The Palatine Hill” (pp. 104 – 159), and individual entries as
appropriate for site visits
Week 9
Lecture: Rome of Trajan and Hadrian; Public Venues II
Meeting Place: In front of the Pantheon
Site Visits: Pantheon, Temple to the Deified Hadrian, Column of Marcus
Aurelius, Stadium of Domitian, Forum and Markets of Trajan, Temple of Venus and
Roma
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapters Eleven and Twelve, and Claridge, Section
“Imperial Forums” (pp. 160 – 196), and individual entries as appropriate for
site visits
Week 10
Lecture: Ostia Antica I, Homes, Religion and Entertainment
Meeting Place: Ticket booth at Ostia Antica
Site Visits: Ostia Antica
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapter Eighteen, and www.ostia-antica.org for individual
monuments
Week 11
NO
CLASS
Week 12
RESEARCH PAPER DUE TODAY
Lecture: Ostia Antica II
Meeting Place: Ticket booth at Ostia Antica
Site Visits: Ostia Antica
Readings: Stambaugh, Chapter Nine, and www.ostia-antica.org for individual
monument
Week
13
Lecture: Decline and Transformation: Rome from the Antonines through
Constantine; End of Empire; Review for Final Exam
Meeting Place: Roman Forum, entrance opposite the via Cavour
Site Visits: Arch of Constantine, Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica of
Maxentius, Baths of Caracalla, Forma Urbis Romae
Readings: Claridge, Section “Caelian Hill and the Inner Via Appia” (pp. 341 –
371), and individual entries as appropriate for site visits
Week 14
NO CLASS
Final Exam: T.B.A.