Details of further reading suggestions as well as a relevant bibliography for the course will be provided at the start of term
1. Tues. Aug. 30 - Introduction to the course and to Rome
Themes/works: Course requirements & logistics. Rome: mythological & topographical origins. Forum Boarium; Circus Maximus; Palatine and Capitoline Hills; Forum valley.
Meeting place: JCU, Tiber Campus, First Floor, Room 3
Assigned reading: None
2. Tues. Sept. 6 - Regal and Republican Rome: The importance of the Forum area
Themes/works: City foundation; survival of Regal period monuments; Republican period expansion. Forum Romanum (Temples of Vesta, Saturn and Castor); Palatine Hill (Romulus); Capitoline Hill (Arx, Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus); Forum Boarium (Sant’Omobono temples; Round temple; Temple of Portunus).
Meeting place: Piazza del Campidoglio, statue of M. Aurelius (Claridge 2010: fig 109).
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 4-9 (history), 39-41, 52-54 (materials & orders), 63-67, 71-77, 83-84, 105-11 (Forum Romanum), 131-3 (hut of Romulus), 259-62, 268-70 (Capitoline, Temple of Jupiter), 282-8 (Sant’Omobono and Forum Boarium); Stamper 2005: 6-10, 38-40, 49-50 (Kings, politics and authority, triumph)
3. Tues. Sept. 13 - Late Republican Rome: Competition, honor and display
Themes/works: Rome and the Hellenistic world; display, competition and influence; patronage and civic space. Theater of Pompey, Victory temples at Largo Argentina, Forum of Caesar, statue of Augustus from Prima Porta
Meeting place: Campo dei Fiori, statue of G. Bruno (Claridge 2010: fig 77)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 9-12 (history), 71-75, 161-9 (Forum of Caesar), 239-46 (Theater of Pompey, victory temples); Kleiner 1992: 63-67 (Prima Porta statue)
4. Tues. Sept. 20 - Caesar and Augustus: The end of the Republic
Themes/works: Patronage, politics, and history; creation of the principate. Forum Romanum (Basilica Aemilia and Julia, Rostra, Curia, Temple of Divus Julius, Temple of Castor, Portico of Gaius and Lucius); Forum of Augustus; Palatine (Temple of Apollo Palatinus, House of Augustus)
Meeting place: Entrance to the Forum Romanum, Via dei Fori Imperiali/Via Cavour (Claridge 2010: figs 1, 60)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 12-15 (history), 50-52 (painting styles), 63-71, 85-87, 92-95, 100-3 (Forum Romanum), 125-8, 133-44 (Palatine), 177-80 (Forum of Augustus); Kleiner 1992: 59-60 (intro to Augustus); Schneider 2008: 270-8 (Augustan Rome)
5. Fri. Sept 23 (Make-up day for Tues. Nov. 1) - Augustus: A new ideology
Themes/works: The development of the principate: the princeps as role model; senators as stakeholders in a new order. Campus Martius; Mausoleum of Augustus; Ara Pacis Augustae; Horologium; building works of Agrippa
Meeting place: Entrance to the Ara Pacis Augustae, Piazza Augusto Imperatore (Claridge 2010: fig 77)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 41-44 (materials), 197-216, 232-4 (Campus Martius, Augustan monuments); Kleiner 1992: 90-99 (Augustus, Ara Pacis Augustae); Walker in Coulston and Dodge 2000: 61-75 (Augustan Rome)
6. Tues. Sept. 27 - Late Republic to Imperial Rome: Artistic transformations
Themes/works: Portraiture and cultural identity; portraiture and political ideology; Augustan-period painted interiors. Republican works: veristic portraiture, statue of general from Tivoli; Augustan works: portraiture of Augustus, statue of Augustus from Via Labicana, Garden painting from Prima Porta, Villa Farnesina paintings; imperial works: portraiture of Vespasian and Hadrian
Meeting Place: Entrance to Palazzo Massimo Museum, Piazza dei Cinquecento (near Termini station / Piazza della Repubblica) (Claridge 2010: fig 180).
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 15-18 (history), 483-485 (museum description); Kleiner 1992: 7-11, 31-40 (Republican), 59-69, 75-78 (Augustan), 171-9 (Flavian); Schneider 2008: 279-84 (the Augustan image).
7. Tues. Oct. 4 - Mid-term exam and Term Paper discussion
Library study session: Source evaluation, reference use, bibliographic formatting related to writing the term paper
Meeting place: JCU, 1:30-4:15pm, Tiber Campus, First Floor, Room 3 – please bring laptop/tablet
Assigned reading: None
8. Tues. Oct. 11 – Nero and the Flavians: The emperor and Rome
Themes/works: Articulating imperial status in Rome; major building projects and the tension between emperor and people. Domus Aurea; Templum Pacis; Flavian amphitheater; Arch of Titus; Palace of Domitian; Forum Transitorium (Forum of Nerva)
Meeting Place: Entrance to the Palatine Hill, via di San Gregorio 30 (Claridge 2010: fig 50, arrow next to number 22)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 82-83, 121-3 (Forum Romanum), 145-56 (Palatine), 169-76 (Temple of Peace, Forum of Nerva), 301-6, 312-9 (Domus Aurea, Colosseum, Ludus Magnus); Hales 2003: 72-79 (Domus Aurea, Palatine)
9. Tues. Oct. 18 - Trajan and Hadrian: ‘Most happy and prosperous’
Term Paper due
Themes/works: A time of great prosperity; depictions of war and non-Romans; culture and cosmopolitan outlook. Forum and Column of Trajan; Temple of Venus and Rome; Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina; marble plan of Rome; Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli
Meeting Place: Column of Trajan (Claridge 2010: fig 60).
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 18-21 (history), 111-13 (Temple of Antoninus), 118-21 (Temple of Roma and Venus), 180-96 (Forum and markets of Trajan)
10. Tues. Oct. 25 - Hadrian to Commodus: The last of the 5 good emperors
Themes/works: Depictions of war and peace; commemoration and dynastic policies. Pantheon, Mausoleum of Hadrian, Hadrianeum, Columns of A. Pius and M. Aurelius, Stadium and Odeum of Domitian
Meeting Place: Piazza Colonna, near column (Claridge 2010: fig 77).
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 216-21 (Columns of A. Pius & M. Aurelius), 223-32, 234-39 (Hadrianeum, Pantheon, stadium and odeum of Domitian); Kleiner 1992: 283-88 (Hadrianeum, column of A. Pius), 295-301 (column of M. Aurelius)
Tuesday November 1 - No class (Italian Holiday)
11. Tues. Nov. 8 (last day to withdraw from a class) - The Severans: making a new Rome
Themes/works: Depicting dynasty and history; 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
Meeting point: Piazza Campidoglio, statue of M. Aurelius (Claridge 2010: fig 109)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 21-24 (history), 78-79 (Arch of S. Severus), 292-3 (Arch of the Argentarii), 356-65 (Septizodium, Baths of Caracalla)
12. Tues. Nov. 15 - Antonines, Severans and Constantine: Art of the high and late empire
Themes/works: Portraiture and imperial leadership: tradition and innovation. Portraiture: Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Constantine; Equestrian statue of M. Aurelius; panel reliefs of M. Aurelius; introduction to Roman epigraphy
Meeting Place: Piazza Campidoglio, statue of M. Aurelius (Claridge 2010: fig 109)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 25-29 (history); Kleiner 1992: 238-42 (Hadrian), 267-80 (Antonine portraits), 288-95 (reliefs of M. Aurelius), 319-25 (Severan portraits), 438-41 (Constantine)
13. Tues. Nov. 22 - Tetrarchs to Constantine: the arrival of Christianity and the shifting of a capital
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 Venus and Roma; Diocletian’s curia; so-called Temple of Romulus; Column of Phocas
Meeting Place: Entrance to the Forum Romanum, Via Fori Imperiali/Via Cavour (Claridge 2010: figs 1, 60)
Assigned reading:
Claridge 2010: 71-74, 85-88, 113-21 (monuments in the Forum), 308-12 (Arch of Constantine); Kleiner 1992: 444-55 (Arch of Constantine).
14. Tues. Nov. 29 - Review class
Overview and discussion of course content
Meeting Place: JCU, 1:30-4:15pm, Tiber Campus, First Floor, Room 3
Assigned reading:
Review all assigned readings. Course reader page 9 – identify monuments discussed in class. Pose 3-5 questions, based on your revision study, for which you would like clarification and further detail.
15. December 3-9 - Final exam
Meeting place: Date, time and place to be announced