CLA 382: Daily Schedule and Readings

Please prepare the reading assignments in anticipation of class discussion.

PART I: Overview of Roman archaeology, art and architecture

Week 1

Monday: Introduction; Prehistoric Italy, archaic Rome to the 4th century CE

• Intro to excavating
• Italy before the Romans: the Etruscans, the Greeks, and Latins
• The Roman monarchy (753-509 BCE) and early-mid Republic (509-146 BCE)
• Roman religion: VRoma MOO
• Roman architectural orders and building materials
• Reading for Tuesday: Claridge, pp. 4-15, 39-41, 52-54, skim 41-44; Watkin, chs 1-3; Zanker Ch 1; K. Greene, "Discovery, Fieldwork, and Recording," Ch 2 in Archaeology, An Introduction; Fikret Yegul, "Roman Concrete"

Tuesday: Rome in transition to empire (146 BCE - 14 CE)

• Rome in the late Republic (146-31 BCE) and Augustan principate (31 BCE-14 CE)
• the Roman Forum
• Roman Building Types
• video: Roman Bath
• Reading for Wednesday: Claridge, pp. 15-32, 46-52, 55-60; Zanker, chs 2, 4; K. Greene, "Dating the Past"

• Rome from Tiberius to Constantine (14 - 330 CE)
• Roman building materials and building techniques
• video: In the Shadow of Vesuvius
• Review for quiz on Thursday on the flight
  Reading for Saturday: Larissa Bonfante, "Daily Life and Afterlife," Etruscan Life and Afterlife, ed. L. Bonfante. Detroit: Wayne State, 1986. 232-78.

• Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum)
  
• Reading for Tuesday: Diane Favro, "A Walk through Republican Rome, 52 B.C.," The Urban Image of Augustan Rome. Cambridge 1996. 24-41. Zanker, pp. 67-99, 187-95
  Claridge, pp. 279-300.

• Capitoline Museums, Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
• Archaic and Republican temples (Sant' Omobono), Republican victory temples, temple of Portunus, round temple, S. Maria in Cosmedin, Arch of theArgentarii, Circus Maximus
• Reading for Wednesday: Woodhull, Margaret. "Engendering Space: Octavia's Portico in Rome." Aurora 4 (2003) 13-33.
  Kellum, Barbara. "What We See and What We Don't See: Narrative Structure and the Ara Pacis Augustae." Art History 17 (1994) 26-45. Claridge, pp. 197-216, 239-46, 253-56.

• Temple of Apollo Sosianus, Porticus Octaviae, Theater of Pompey, four Republican temples at Largo Argentina, Horologium, Ara Pacis, Mausoleum of Augustus
• Reading: Zanker, pp. 120-44
  Jas Elsner, "Art and the Past: Antiquarian Eclecticism." Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph. Oxford 1998. 169-97.

• Tivoli: Hadrian's Villa; Villa D'Este
• Reading for Friday: Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. "Reading the Roman House." Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, 1994. 3-16.
  Allison, Penelope. "Domestic Spaces and activities." The World of Pompeii, ed. J. Dobbins and P. Foss. Routledge 2007. 269-78.
  Jongman, Willem. "The loss of innocence: Pompeian economy and society between past and present." The World of Pompeii, ed. J. Dobbins and P. Foss. Routledge 2007. 499-517.
  Ellis, Steven. "The Distribution of Bars at Pompeii: Archaeological, Spatial, and Viewshed Analyses." JRA 17 (2004) 371-84.

• Pompeii: Forum, domestic space, entertainment complex, bars, workshops, baths, tombs, Villa of the Mysteries, etc.
• Reading for Saturday: Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. "The Politics of Archaeology" and "The Future of the Past." Herculaneum, Past and Future. Frances Lincoln, 2011. Chs 2 and 11.

Saturday: Herculaneum

• Herculaneum
• Naples: National Archaeological Museum
• Reading for Monday: John R. Clarke, "Augustus' and Trajan's Messages to Commoners." Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans. California 2003. 19-41.
  Claridge, pp. 226-32 (Pantheon); 162-96 (imperial fora)

• Nero's Golden House (Domus Aurea); imperial fora; markets of Trajan; Castel Sant' Angelo (Hadrian's mausoleum); Pantheon
• Reading: Zanker, pp. 97-119, 145-61

• Villa Farnesina; Scavi Tour (catacombs under St. Peter's); Vatican Museums
• Reading for Wednesday: Fred Kleiner, "Ostia: Port and Mirror of Rome." A History of Roman Art. Thomson-Wadsworth 2007. 203-15.

• Ostia, Rome's port
• Reading for Thursday: Claridge, pp. 308-12, 319-24, 357-65

• Nero's Nymphaeum, Baths of Caracalla, San Clemente, Arch of Constantine, Borghese Gallery, Trevi Fountain

Week 4

Monday: Presentations

Tuesday: Presentations

• Photo credit: Leo Curran, Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome