Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO POMPEII FRI Oct 17 | WE WILL DEPART FROM PIAZZA TRILUSSA PROMPTLY AT 7:00 a.m. AND EXPECT TO RETURN TO ROME BY 7:30 p.m. WE WILL TRAVEL WITH THE OTHER SECTIONS OF AH 190. | | | |
week 1) Sep 4 | INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. TIBER and TIBER ISLAND: Introduction to the course (requirements, logistics, chronological/ conceptual overview, etc.); on-site: Rome’s "foundation" topography/mythology and general developments from Regal to Republican period: Tiber, Tiber Island. | Stambaugh introd. & ch.1 !! | REGARDING ALL SESSIONS: recommended reading to single areas and monuments: Claridge, A., Oxford Archaeological guide to Rome (1998); recommended reading for chronological and historicial context: Ramage & Ramage, Roman Art (2006) and Scarre, C., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (1995) !! | Meeting place: JCU; then we go on-site |
week 2) Sep 11 | CAPITOLINE HILL: Kings to early Republic: Capitoline Hill, Temple of Jupiter, master pieces of Capitoline Museum. | Stambaugh ch 2 & 7 | | MP: Capitoline Hill by statue of Marcus Aurelius |
week 3) Sep 18 | THE ROMAN FORUM: from marshy valley to centre of the Republican city and Imperial propaganda | Stambaugh ch.3 | | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali |
week 4) Sep 25 | FROM ROMAN REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE: Campus Martius from Republic to Augustus: Area Sacra of Largo Argentina, Theatres of Pompey, Balbus and Marcellus, Porticus of Octavia, Temple of Apollo, F. Holitorium and F. Boarium temples | Stambaugh ch 3, 11 & 13 | DUE: Class Notes 1 | MP: Largo Argentina in front of Feltrinelli bookstore |
week 4 FRI Sep 26 | NO MAKE-UP (used for Pompeii fieldtrip) | | | |
week 5) Oct 2 | AUGUSTUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD OF MARS: Campus Martius from Augustus to Domitian: Mausoleum of Augustus, Ara Pacis, Horologium, Pantheon (Agrippa), Baths and Stagnum of Agrippa, Baths of Nero; Iseum, Stadium of Domitian Stambaugh ch. 4 | Stambaugh ch. 4 | | MP: Ara Pacis, in front of museum entrance |
week 6) Oct 9 | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: JCU 9:30, class room TBA |
week 7) Oct 16 | OSTIA: THE SEAPORT OF ROME 1: Ostia Antica and its topography, history, economy and infrastructures | Stambaugh ch. 8,9 & 18 (Ostia) and go to www.ostia-antica.org | DUE: Class Notes 2 | MP: train stop at Ostia Antica at 9.10 !!! Take Roma-lido train at 8:40!! |
FRI Oct 17, 7:00 (has the value of two regular class meetings) | POMPEII: a flourishing city in the province. History, design, function etc. of the city from the early days to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. | Stambaugh ch 12 & 17 | Zanker, P.,Pompeii. Public and Private Life (1998) | MP: Piazza Trilussa, 6:50 (departure 7:00) |
week 8) Oct 23 | THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS: Palatine: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Domitian; Arch of Titus; Nero's Golden House; Colosseum | Stambaugh ch. 7 & 14 | VISUAL ANALYSIS to be started (material distributed at beginning of class) | MP: entrance to Forum Romanum on Via dei Fori Imperiali |
week 9) Oct 30 | NO CLASS (used for Pompeii trip) | | | |
week 10) Nov 6 | TRAJAN AND THE IMPERIAL FORA & THE HIGH EMPIRE: Imperial Fora and Trajan's markets; Campus Martius, Hadrian to Commodus: Pantheon, Hadrianeum, Column of Marcus Aurelius | Stambaugh ch. 5, 6 & 20 | DUE: Visual analysis | MP: at Column of Trajan, near Piazza Venezia |
week 11) Nov 13 | OSTIA, THE SEAPORT OF ROME 2: Ostia Antica and its house architecture and religious buildings | Stambaugh ch. 10, 13 & 18 and go to www.ostia-antica.org | Coarelli, F., Rome and Environs (2007) pp. 450-476 | MP: Ticket Office Ostia Antica at 9.15 !!! Take Roma-lido train at 8:40!! |
week 12) Nov 20 | From Pagan to Christian | Stambaugh ch.5 (The Later Empire) | DUE: PAPER | MP: entrance to Roman Forum |
Week 13 Nov 27 | THAKSGIVING HOLIDAY (used for Pompeii fieldtrip, therefore NO MAKE-UP) | | | |
week 14) Dec 4 | The BATHS OF CARACALLA and the Importance of Social Bathing. REVIEW of our semester! | Stambaugh ch. 12 & 15 | REVIEW and prepare the course material for discussion of study guide | MP: ticket office of Baths of Caracalla (Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 52) |
week 15) | FINAL EXAM | | | MP: on campus TBA |