Details of further reading suggestions as well as a relevant bibliography for the course will be provided at the start of the semester.
Core bibliographic works for the course include:
Bell, S. and Hansen, I.L. (eds) (2008) Role Models in the Roman World.
Borg, B. (ed.) (2015) A Companion to Roman Art.
Clarke, J.R. (2003) Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans.
Claridge, A. (2010) Rome. Oxford Archaeological Guide.
Davies, P. (2000) Death and the Emperor.
Ewald, B.C. and Noreña, C.F. (eds) (2010) The Emperor and Rome.
Fejfer, J. (2008) Roman Portraits in Context.
Flower, H.I. (2004) (ed.) Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic.
Galinsky, K. (1996) Augustan Culture.
Jacobs, P.W. II and Conlin, D.A. (2015) Campus Martius. The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome.
Kleiner, D.E.E. (1992) Roman Sculpture.
Marder, T:A: and Wilson Jones, M. (eds) (2015) The Pantheon from Antiquity to the Present
Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1993) Augustan Rome.
Zanker, P. (1988) The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Meeting places are preliminary: final details with be established at the start of the course
1 - Introduction to the course and to Rome - Regal and early Republican period.
Themes/works: Course requirements & logistics. Rome: mythological & topographical origins. City foundation, survival of Regal period monuments. Tiber Island; Forum Boarium; Circus Maximus; Palatine Hill (hut of Romulus); Capitoline Hill (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus); Roman Forum (Temples of Vesta, Saturn and Castor).
2 - Republican Rome: expansion, competition, display
Themes/works: Republican period expansion - Rome and the Hellenistic world; display, competition and influence; patronage and civic space; the military triumph. Forum Boarium (temples); Campus Martius (victory temples at Largo Argentina, theatre of Pompey); Roman Forum; Forum of Caesar.
3 - Augustus: the triumph of peace
Themes/works: The creation of the principate: the princeps as role model; senators as stakeholders in a new order. Campus Martius; Mausoleum of Augustus; Ara Pacis Augustae; Horologium; Pantheon and building works of Agrippa; Forum of Augustus.
4 - Late Republic to Imperial Rome: portraits of power
Themes/works: Republican and imperial portraiture: politics, honor and international relations; Augustan painted interiors. Republican works: veristic portraiture, statue of general from Tivoli; Imperial works: Augustan and Vespasianic portraiture; statue of Augustus from Via Labicana; Garden painting from Prima Porta; Villa Farnesina paintings.
5 - Mid-term exam; the Palatine and the Roman Forum under the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians
Themes/works: Articulating imperial status in Rome: positive and negative role models; urban space and the engagement of senate and plebs. House of Augustus; Domus Aurea; Templum Pacis; Flavian amphitheatre; Arch of Titus; Palace of Domitian.
6 - Domitian to Commodus: ruling a secure world.
Themes/works: Articulating the role of emperor: head of empire or co-regent of Jupiter; depictions of war and non-Romans; culture and cosmopolitan outlook; commemoration and dynastic policies. Stadium and Odeum of Domitian; Forum and Column of Trajan; Trajan's Markets; Temple of Venus and Rome; Pantheon; Mausoleum of Hadrian; Hadrianeum; Columns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
7 - The Severans: making a new Rome
Themes/works: Depicting dynasty and history; reconstructing Roman/making a new Rome; water and popular luxury; popular participation in imperial messages. Arch of Septimius Severus, Temple of Vesta, Arch of the Argentarii, Baths of Caracalla, Septizodium, Temple of Sol Invictus.
8 - Antonines, Severans and Constantine: ruling a world city
Themes/works: Portraiture and imperial identity; being Roman, acting Greek; values and morals. Portraiture: Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Elagabalus, Constantine; Equestrian statue of M. Aurelius; panel reliefs of M. Aurelius; Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina.
9 - Tetrarchs to Constantine: a Roman Rome
Themes/works: Imperial rule and Roman history; art quoting history; triumph and tradition; a new role for the emperor in Rome? The late imperial Forum; Arch of Constantine; Basilica of Maxentius; Temple of Romulus; Temple of Venus and Roma.
Meeting Place: Entrance to the Forum Romanum, Via Fori Imperiali/Via Cavour (Claridge 2010: figs 1, 60)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 21-29 (history), 78-79, 85-87, 115-7 (monuments in the Forum), 308-12 (Arch of Constantine); Kleiner 1992: 444-55 (Arch of Constantine).
10 - Projects presentations and Review class
Overview and discussion of course content