Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
week 1) Jan 19 | Course Syllabus and Procedures and Introduction. On-site: Rome's Topography: Seven Hills, Tiber and Tiber Island.
| Coarelli 1-11 (Introduction) | Claridge 1-11, 31-59, 226-28 (Tiber Island), 394-397; Ramage introd.; | MP: GKG1 at 9:15 for introduction; then we go on-site!! |
week 2) Jan 26 | From Romulus to Caesar: Early and Republican Rome, Capitoline Hill and Museums. | Coarelli 29-43 (Capitoline), 43-47 (Roman Forum: Historical notes) | Ramage ch.2; Claridge 6-11, 60-74 (Roman Forum), Capitoline: 229-231, 231-240 | MP: Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill), in front of ticket office to Museum |
week 3) Feb 2 | Etruscan Art and Culture in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. | Ramage ch.1; Rasmussen 13-25 in: Henig, ch.1 (Early Roman Art); Brendel, Etruscan art, ch. 19 sculpture in terracotta | Claridge 394-397; Spivey, Etruscan Art | MP: Piazza del Popolo, near obelisk, class moves together to the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia |
week 4) Feb 9 | From Roman Republic to Empire | Coarelli 261-285 (Campus Martius I), 307-321 (Forum Holitorium and Forum Boarium) | Claridge 177-180 (introd. Field of Mars), 214-228, 243-247; Strong ch.2 & 3 | MP: Largo Argentina, in front of Feltrinelli bookstore |
week 5) Feb 16 | Augustus and the Imperial Idea: Political Propaganda in the Field of Mars | Coarelli 285-291, 299-304 (Augustan Campus Martius); Zanker, P., Power of Images, 33-43. 118-125, 143-162, 172-183, 335-339; | Ramage ch.3 & 4; Galinsky ch.4; Strong ch.4 & 5; Claridge 11-18, Field of Mars: introd. and Augustan monuments (Mausoleum, Altar of Peace, Sundial, early Pantheon). | MP: Museum of Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta (corner Via Tomacelli); near Ponte Cavour |
week 6) Feb 23 | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: GKG1 at 9:15 (check info board, though!) |
week 7) Mar 1 | Imperial Residences on the Palatine and the Development of the Colosseum Valley. Roman Forum from late Republican to early Imperial. | Coarelli 131-157 (Palatine), 159-172 (Colosseum etc.), 177-190 (Oppian Hill), 47-57, 63-81, 97-98 (Roman Forum). | Ramage ch.5 Claridge 16-17, 116-145, 267-284, 290-93 (Nero's Golden House); Strong ch.6 | MP: entrance to Forum Romanum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 8) Mar 8 !! longer class !! | Ostia Antica, the Port or Rome. Fieldtrip. | Coarelli 451-476; Stambaugh ch.18 | www.ostia-org; Hermansen; Meiggs | MP: 9:15 outside train station of Ostia Antica !! Take Lido train from Piazzale Ostiense at 8:40!! (bring snacks) |
week 9) Mar 15 | Trajan and the Imperial Fora, Column and Markets. | Coarelli 102-128 (Imperial Fora) | Ramage ch.6 (Trajan); Claridge 11-18, 146-173; Strong ch.7 | MP: Column of Trajan (near Piazza Venezia) |
week 10) Mar 22 | The Field of Mars and the High Empire.
!! VISUAL ANALYSIS done during class !! | Coarelli 261-266, 286-298 (central Campus Martius) | Ramage ch.7 & 8; Claridge 17-20, 177-228(Field of Mars), 369-373 (Mausoleum of Hadrian); MacDonald, Pantheon; Strong ch. 8 & 9
| MP: in front of Pantheon |
week 11) March 29 | SPRING BREAK | | | |
week 12) April 5 | Embellishing the City: Roman Painting and Sculpture in the Palazzo Massimo; and Baths of Diocletian.
| Coarelli 247-252 (Castra Praetoria nad Baths of Diocletian); La Regina, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, 9-13, 23-34, 40-42, 47-48, 87-92, 94-101, 166-7 (portraiture), 51-57 (painted frieze), 59-62 (Altar and Augustus), 121 124, 129, 130, 132, 136, 144 (sculpture), 180-206 (mosaics), 208-335 (wall paintings), 254-258 (marble intarsio). | Claridge 352-354 (Baths of Diocletian); Portraiture: review Ramage 42-45, 77-81, 107-112, 138-141 and Strong 38, 44-47, 84-88; Wall paintings and Mosaics: review Ramage 82-95, 123-131, 152 and Strong 63-74, 94-104. | MP: Piazza Repubblica, in front of Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli |
week 13) April 12 | The Centre in the Later Empire and the Baths of Carcalla | Coarelli 43-47, 57-63, 81-97, 98-101 (Roman Forum high and late imperial), 11-27 (City Walls)), 326-331 (Baths of Caracalla), 365-367 (Via Appia) | Ramage ch. 9 -12; Claridge 20-27, 70, 75-76, 83, 109-111, 115, 272-276, 284-288, 332-335 (Aurelianic Walls), 346-350; Strong ch. 10-14; | MP: entrance to Roman Forum, Via dei Fori Imperiali (half way between Colosseum and Piazza Venezia) |
week 14) April19 | Constantine the Great: from Pagan to Christian. | Coarelli 159-163 (Arch of Constantine), 172-175 (San Clemente), 213-223 (Caelian Hill), 224-227 (Lateran), | Claridge 272-275, 283-288, 347-350; Ramage ch12; Strong ch.13. DUE: Term Paper !! | MP: Arch of Constantine |
week 15) April 26 | Course conclusion. Paper presentation and Review of our semester! | Prepare course material following the study guide! | DUE: Paper's oral presentation in class !! | MP: GKG1 at 9:15 (check info board, though!) |
week 16) | FINAL EXAM | | | MP: JCU day, time and class TBA |