Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO POMPEII: Friday, Feb 20 !! | PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FIELD TRIP TO POMPEII HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY FEB 20. 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. | | REGARDING ALL SESSIONS: recommended reading to single areas and monuments: Claridge, A., Oxford Archaeological guide to Rome (1998); Coarelli, F., Rome and Environs. An archaeological Guide (2007); recommended reading for chronological and historicial context: Ramage & Ramage, Roman Art (2006) and Scarre, C., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (1995) !! | |
week 1) Jan 20 | INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. TIBER and TIBER ISLAND: Introduction to the course (requirements, logistics, chronological/ conceptual overview, etc.); on-site: Rome’s topography and mythological background; Tiber, Tiber Island. | Stambaugh introduction | Coarelli introduction | Meeting place: GK11 (please, check info board!) and then we go on-site |
week 2) Jan 27: NO backpacks !! | ROME'S FOUNDATION: Kings to early Republic: Capitoline Hill and Temple of Jupiter, Circus Maximus, Palatine Hill and Romulus's hut. | Stambaugh ch. 1 & 13 | Coarelli 29-34 (Capitoline, Temple of Jupiter); Claridge 264 (Circus Maximus), 123-128 (Palatine, Iron Age Huts) | MP: Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio) on top of large staircase |
week 3) Feb 3: NO backpacks !! | THE ROMAN FORUM: from marshy valley to the political, religious and commercial centre of the Republican city and of early Imperial propaganda | Stambaugh ch. 2, 3, 6 & 7 | Claridge 60-74 (Roman Forum, Curia, Comitium, Basilica Aemilia), 80-82 (Temple of Saturn, Rostra) ,85-91 (pavement, Basilica Iulia, Temple of Castor), 97-106 (Temple of Divus Iulius, Arch of Augustus, Temple of Vesta, Atrium Vestae, Regia) | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Piazza Venezia and Colosseum) |
week 4) Feb 10 | 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 | Claridge 176-80 (Campus Martius), 214-226, 241-255 (Theatre of Pompey to Round Temple) | MP: Largo Argentina in front of Feltrinelli bookstore |
week 5) Feb 17 | 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 | DUE: Class Notes 1 !! . . . . . . Claridge 176-192, 201-213 (Augustan and Flavian monuments of Campus Martius) | MP: Piazza del Popolo. near obelisk |
WEEK 5) Friday Feb 20: MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO POMPEII | 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. 11, 12 & 17 | Zanker, P.,Pompeii. Public and Private Life (1998) | MP: Piazza Trilussa, 6.50 (departure bus: 7.00)!! (has the value of two morning classes) |
week 6) Feb 24 | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: GK11 9:15 |
week 7) Mar 3: NO backpacks !! | 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). . Claridge 116 (Arch of Titus), 119 (PAlatine Hill), 128-141 (House of Augustus, Domititan's Palace) | MP: at Arch of Constantine (near Colosseum) |
week 8) Mar 10 | 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: Visual analysis !! Coarelli 450-476 (Ostia) | MP: train stop at Ostia Antica at 9.10 !!! Take Roma-Lido train at 8:40 from Piazzale Ostiense, next to Metro B stop Piramide!! |
week 9) Mar 17 | NO CLASS (used for Pompeii trip) | | | |
week 10) Mar 24 | TRAJAN AND THE IMPERIAL FORA & THE HIGH EMPIRE: Imperial Fora and Trajan's markets; Campus Martius from Hadrian to Commodus. | Stambaugh ch. 5, 6 & 20 | DUE: Class Notes 2 !! . . . . . Claridge 147ff (Imperial Fora and Trajan's Column and Markets), 193-206 (Pantheon, Hadrianeum, Column of Marcus Aurelius) | MP: at Column of Trajan, near Piazza Venezia |
week 11) Mar 31 | 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 450-476 (Ostia) | MP: Ticket Office Ostia Antica at 9.15 !!! Take Roma-Lido train at 8:40!! |
week 12) April 7 | SPRING BREAK | | | |
week 13) April 14: NO backpacks !! | The city in transition from PAGAN to CHRISTIAN. The multiple layers of San Clemente. | Stambaugh ch.5 (The Later Empire) | DUE: PAPER !! . . . . . . . . Claridge 70-76 (Curia, Arch of Septimius Severus), 83 -84 (Decennalia Base, Column of Phocas), 107-115 (Temples of Faustina, Romulus, Venus and Roma, Basilica Nova), 272 (Arch of Constantine), 284 (San Clemente) | MP: MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Pizza Venezia and Colosseum) |
week 14) April 21 | The BATHS OF CARACALLA and the Importance of Social Bathing. REVIEW of our semester! | Stambaugh ch. 12 & 15 | REVIEW and prepare the course material according to study guide for discussion !! Claridge 319ff (Via Appia and Baths of Caracalla) | MP: ticket office of Baths of Caracalla (Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 52) |
week 15) April 28 | NO CLASS (use for Pompei trip - BUT ... | ... if necessary used for make-up!) | | |
week 16) | FINAL EXAM | | | MP: on campus TBA |