This is an updated schedule (7/4, 2024). The visits to Pantheon and Colosseum M 15 and W 24: day and hour TBC.
M July 1 1.a. Introduction and 1.b. first walk: bridges and arches.
Houston 65-72.
meet in classroom G.K1.2, then walk to the city center.
W 3 2. Aqueducts: introduction and the Aqua Traiana under the American Academy.
Landels 34-57. 211-215.
meet in classroom, then walk to AAR.
M 8 3. Water supply/Aqueducts. 3.a. Porta Maggiore and 3.b. the Aqueduct Park: Aqua Marcia, Aqua Claudia.
www.romanaqueducts.info; Landels 34-57. 211-215.
meet at Termini railway station, front entrance/ Borri bookshop.
pick oral presentation topic
W 10 4. Construction/Baths. 4.a. Baths of Caracalla. 4.b. City walls: Museo delle Mura.
Landels 84-98. 170-185.
quiz 1 worksheet due
meet at metro B stop Circo Massimo
M 15 5.a. Bathing and City Walls 5.b. The Pantheon: architecture and astronomy.
Landels 84-98. M. Wilson Jones; L. Lancaster.
in classroom, then walk to the Pantheon
W 17 6. Ostia antica, harbor of Rome. Construction, baths, latrines, bakery
(long lesson) www.ostia-antica.org
quiz 2 worksheet due
meet at the pyramid, Piazzale Ostiense
M 22 7.a. Harbors, ships, naval industry and wood. 7.b. War machines: artillery.
Landels 133-169. 219-224. 84-98. 170-185. 208-211; 25. 48. 51. 67. 75.
outline for research project due
in classroom
W 24 8.a. War: weapons and armor 8.b. Colosseum: Entertainment technology.
Landels 99-132. L. Lancaster.
in classroom, then visit to the Colosseum (TBC)
M 29 9.a. Automata: mechanical art 9.b. Leonardo's Machines exhibition.
Landels 9-25. 28-34. 58-83. 186-198. 199-208.
meet in classroom, then walk to Palazzo della Cancelleria
W 31 10.a. Presentation of student projects 10.b. Mining, metal, and ceramics.
research project due
in classroom
Friday Aug. 2 11. Conclusion, debate on projects, (final exam) homework/worksheets.
exam - or homework due
in classroom
TEXTBOOK:
J. G. Landels, Engineering in the Ancient World (1978)
REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
J. P. Oleson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (2010)
L. Sprague De Camp, The Ancient Engineers (1963/1995)
H. Hodges, Technology in the Ancient World (1979)
S. Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2007/2009)
K. D. White, Greek and Roman Technology (1984)
A. Claridge, Rome. Archaeological Guide (1998/2010)
RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
J.-P. Adam, Roman Building (2004)
W. Addis, 3000 years of design engineering and construction (2007)
L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (1995)
A. Goldsworthy, Roman Warfare (2005)
K. Greene, Roman Pottery (1993)
G. W. Humphrey, J. P. Oleson, A. N. Sherwood (ed.), Greek and Roman Technology (1998)
L. Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome (2009)
R. Laurence, The Roads of Roman Italy (1997)
T. Hodge, Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply (2002)
C. G. Malacrino, Constructors of the Ancient World (2010)
I. Nielsen, Thermae et Balnea (1990/1993)
F. Russo, F. Russo, Pompei. La tecnologia dimenticata (2007)
R. Taylor, Roman Builders. A Study in Architectural Process (2003)
M. Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture (2003)
F. Yegul, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity (1992)
Frontinus (Bennett transl.), De Aquaeductu (Loeb Classical Library 1980)
F. Coarelli, Rome and Environs (2007/2014)