Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO POMPEII: Friday Sept 30th | 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 | The fieldtrip has the value of two regular class meetings and ... | ... therefore on two Wednesday mornings class will not meet again (see schedule!) | |
MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO OSTIA: Sunday Oct 2nd | MP: We will meet at 9:15 am in front of Metro B stop Piramide at Piazzale Ostiense and take together the Ostia Lido train. | The fieldtrip has the value of two regular class meetings and ... | ... therefore on two Wednesday mornings class will not meet again (see schedule!) | |
| 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 historical context: Ramage & Ramage, Roman Art (2006) and Scarre, C., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (1995) !! | |
week 1) Aug 31 | 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: GK12 at 9:15 and then we go on-site!! |
week 2) Sep 7 | 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 (Piazza del Campidoglio) in front of the Capitoline Museum |
week 3) Sep 14 | NO CLASS (used for Pompeii trip) | | | |
week 4) Sep 21 | 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 Pizza Venezia and Colosseum) |
week 5) Sep 28 | 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) Friday Sep 30th: 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 | DUE: Class notes 1 !!! ..... 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 5) Sunday Oct 2nd: MANDATORY FIELDTRIP TO OSTIA | OSTIA, THE SEAPORT OF ROME: Ostia Antica and its topography, history, economy and infrastructures, its house architecture and religious buildings. | Stambaugh ch. 8, 9, 10, 13 & 18 (Ostia) and go to www.ostia-antica.org | Coarelli 450-476 (Ostia) | MP: We will meet at 9:15 am in front of Metro B stop Piramide at Piazzale Ostiense and take together the Ostia Lido train !! (has the value of two morning classes) |
week 6) Oct 5 | NO CLASS (used for Pompeii trip) | | | |
week 7) Oct 12 | NO CLASS (used for Ostia trip) | | | |
week 8) Oct 19 !! at 8:30 !! | MIDTERM EXAM | | | MP: on campus in GK12 at 8:30 !! |
week 9) Oct 26 | THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD OF MARS FROM AUGUSTUS TO THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS: Mausoleum of Augustus, Horologium, Ara Pacis, Agrippa's Pantheon, Baths and Stagnum; Baths of Nero, Stadium of Domitian. | Stambaugh ch. 4 | VISUAL ANALYSIS (done during class, bring white paper and pencils!) Claridge 176-192, 201-213 (Augustan and Flavian monuments of Campus Martius) | MP: Piazza del Popolo, near obelisk |
week 10) Nov 2 | FROM IMPERIAL RESIDENCES TO ENTERTAINMENT: development of Palatine Hill and the Colosseum valley from Augustus to the Flavian emperors. | Stambaugh ch. 7 & 14 | DUE: Class Notes 2 !! . . . . . . Claridge 16-17, 116-145 (Palatine Hill), 267-284 (Colosseum, Arch ot Titus etc.). 290-293 (Nero's Golden House). | MP: entrance to Palatine Hill, Via di San Gregorio 30 (half way between Circus Maximus and Colosseum) |
week 11) Nov 9 | 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 | 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 12) Nov 16 | The city in transition from PAGAN to CHRISTIAN.
The late Forum, Colosseum (lecture inside), Arch of Constantine and 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: Arch of Constantine (near Colosseum) |
week 13) Nov 23 | NO CLASS (used for Ostia trip) | | | |
week 14) | 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) TBA | FINAL EXAM | | | TBA |