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ART IN THE LIVES OF ORDINARY ROMANS

ARH 327R (19805) * Spring 2019 * MWF 11:00-12:00 * DFA 2.204

EUS 347 (36105)

John R. Clarke

Office DFA 2.114

Office Hours: W 1-3

Phone 512-232-2355 e-mail [email protected]

Course Objectives

1) To examine how study of visual representations allows us to enter into the mentality of ancient non-elite Romans

2) To survey the art and architecture of Roman Italy between 100 B.C. and A.D. 315

3) To explore Roman attitudes toward the practices of daily life: religion, work, theater, gladiatorial games, tavern-going, banqueting, sexuality, self-representation, death, and burial

4) To learn how the Romans were—and were not—“just like us”

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1) This is primarily a lecture course—but with me stopping to ask a lot of questions.

2) I reward well-prepared students who speak up in class and show they’ve read the assignments.

3) There are three 50-minute exams:

March 1 (35% of grade)

April 12 (35% of grade)

May10 (30% of grade)

Each exam consists of 20 minutes of slide identifications and comparisons and a 30-minute prepared essay.

Grades +/- grades will be assigned according to the system in effect since the fall of 2009.

Instructions on Viewing Image Reserves

To view images on reserve for your three exams, go to DASE (Digital Archives SErvices): https://dase.laits.utexas.edu and enter your UT EID and Password. When the DASE screen comes up, go to Browse Public User Collections/Slideshows.

Find: Clarke ALOR Exam 1 (101 items)

Clarke ALOR Exam 2 (81 items)

Clarke ALOR Exam 3 (70 items)

Each exam will test you only on images pertaining to lectures for that section (Exam 1: January 23-February 27; Exam 2: March 4-April 10; Exam 3: April 15-May 6. Page | 3

Instructions on Prepared Essay

Two classes before the exam, each of you is responsible for handing in a well-formulated, issue- oriented question. I will choose 10 of these and give them to you the class before the exam. You will prepare an outline of no more than 250 words to guide you during the writing of your essay on exam day. You must hand in your outline with your blue book.

Alternative to Third Exam

Students with an average of B+ or higher may substitute an 8-10 page paper or a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation for the third exam, pending my approval.

Attendance. The grader will pass around a signup sheet at the beginning of class. Please sign in. More than three unexcused absences will result in the lowering of your final grade.

Texts

John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-

Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315 (Berkeley, 2003). Abbreviated ALOR

John R. Clarke, Roman Sex: 100 BC-AD 250 (New York, 2003). Abbreviated RS

John R. Clarke, Roman Life: 100 BC-AD 200 (New York, 2007). Abbreviated RL

Glossary of Roman Terms

Clarke, RL, has a glossary that you will find very helpful. Although I will explain all the Latin terms and names for things and practices, if you forget my explanation, or need clarification, go to the glossary, pages 166-169. I have also uploaded it to Canvas under Files.

Texts are available for purchase at the University Co-op.

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These texts, plus recommended readings, are also on reserve in the Fine Arts Library

University of Texas Honor Code

The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community.

Documented Disability Statement

The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact Services for Students with Disabilities at 471-6259 (voice) or 232-2937 (video phone).

Schedule

January

23 What is acculturation? To read: Clarke, ALOR, 1-17

Messages of elites to non-elites in imperial Rome

25 The Ara Pacis and Ordinary Romans. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 19-28; Clarke, RL, 12- 21. Recommended: Zanker, Power of Images, Chapter 6, “The Mythical Foundations of the New Rome,” 167-238.

28 The Messages of the Forums of Augustus and Trajan. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 28-30.

30 Romans and Barbarians on the Column of Trajan. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 31-41; Clarke, RL, 68-75.

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February

4 Romans and Barbarians on the Column of Marcus Aurelius. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 42-53.

6 The change in Style and the Change in Class Consciousness: from the Arch of Septimius Severus to the Arch of Constantine. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 54-67.

Ordinary Romans and the gods

8 Anatomy of a Roman town: : To read: Clarke, ALOR, 69-81. Recommended: Mau, Pompeii, 61-93 (Temples of and Jupiter); 168-182 ().

11 Pompeii: The cult of the domestic (House of the Vettii; House of Sutoria Primigenia; House of the Sarno Lararium).

13 Rome: Altar of the Vicus Aesculetus and the vicomagistri. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 73-85; Clarke, RL, 21-32.

15 Pompeii: Shop of the Carpenters’ Procession; Shop of the Procession of Cybele. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 87-94; Clarke, RL, 34-45.

Ordinary Romans and work

18 Pompeii: Work as decoration—Praedia of Julia Felix and House of the Vettii; Real work: Shop of Verecundus. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 95-112; Clarke, RL, 54-57.

20 Patrons, Woolworking, and Shipbuilding. Pompeii: Fullonicae and the Wool-Working Trade; Ravenna: Longidienus the Shipbuilder. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 112-121; Clarke, RL, 46- 53. Recommended: Mau, Pompeii, 383-399 (the trades at Pompeii: the fullers)

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22 Rome: Altar of Atimetus; Ostia: Women Workers and the Grain Measurers. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 121-129; Clarke, RL, 58-67. Recommended: Meiggs, Roman Ostia, 311-336 (the Guilds).

Ordinary Romans at play: spectacle entertainment

25 Entertainment, Social Control, Self-advertising, and Transgression. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 130-143; Clarke, RL, 76-82. Recommended: Zanker, Pompeii, 107-133 (the Theater, inscriptions).

27 Spectacle. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 143-159; Clarke, RL, 83-91. To watch: The Gladiator, Supplemental Disk.

March

1 EXAM 1

Ordinary Romans at play: tavern humor

4 Pompeii: “sit-coms” in the Tavern of Salvius. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 160-170; Clarke, RL, 92-96.

6 Ostia: “s*it-coms” in the Tavern of the Seven Sages. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 170-180; 97- 103; Clarke, RL, 97-103.

8 Forms of Houses, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: from atrium house to apartment building. To study: CD-ROM bundled with Clarke, RL: “The House of the Vettii at Pompeii: An Interactive Visit.” To read: Clarke, Houses of Roman Italy, 1-29.

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11 Decoration of Houses, 150-15 B.C. The First and Second Styles. To read: Clarke, Houses of Roman Italy, 31-53.

13 Decoration of Houses, 15 B.C.-A.D. 79. The Third and Fourth Styles. To study: CD-ROM. To read: Clarke, Houses of Roman Italy, 54-77.

15 NO CLASS

18-23 SPRING BREAK

25 Meaning in House Decoration I. The House of the Vettii. To study: CD- ROM. Recommended: Clarke, Houses of Roman Italy, 208-235.

27 Meaning in House Decoration II. To study: CD-ROM. Programmatic Painting and Ekphrasis.

Roman sexual culture

29 Sexual Imagery from High to Low: Rome—the Villa under the Farnesina; Pompeii—the House of Caecilius Iucundus. To read: Clarke, RS, 17-35.

April

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1 Gay sex in Bi and Straight Company: The Warren Cup. To read: Clarke, RS, 77- 93.

3 Sex and Laughter in the at Pompeii. To read: Clarke, RS, 115-133.

5 The Opposite of Sex: How to keep away the Evil Eye. To read: Clarke, RS, 95-113.

8 Women’s Liberation in first-century Rome. To read: Clarke, RS, 37-57.

10 New Sexual Imagery from Roman France, A.D. 150-250. To read: Clarke, RS, 135-155.

12 EXAM 2

Death and commemoration

15 Streets of Tombs and Naevoleia Tyche. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 181-187; Clarke, RL, 136. Recommended: Mau, Pompeii, 405-436 (Streets of Tombs).

17 Trimalchio and Vestorius Priscus. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 187-203; Clarke, RL, 144-153.

19 Naughty Pygmies at Ostia: Tombs of Apella and Isola Sacra 16. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 203-215; Clarke, RL, 154-159. Recommended: Meiggs, Roman Ostia, 455-470.

22 Sarcophagi. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 215-219; Clarke, RL, 160-161.

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24 Laughing at the Elegant Greeks: the House of the Chaste Lovers. To read: Clarke, ALOR 221-233; Clarke, RL, 114-127.

26 Minding your Manners: the House of the Moralist. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 233-239; Clarke, RL, 128.

29 Self-representation at the Banquet: the House of the Triclinium. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 239-245; Clarke, RL, 129-131.

May

Self-representation in the home

1 The Elite ius imaginum and the House of the Figured Capitals. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 246- 254; Clarke, RL, 132-133. Recommended: Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society, 3-37 (“Reading the Roman House;” “The Language of Public and Private”).

3 Moral Lessons for Children? The House of Lucretius Fronto. To read: Clarke, ALOR, 254- 259; Clarke, RL, 137-139.

6 The “Bread Dole” and the Roman Ideal of Civic Munificence; The Baker and His Wife: “Terentius Neo.” To read: Clarke, ALOR, 259-268; Clarke, RL, 134-143.

8 Student Presentations

10 EXAM 3

BOOKS ON RESERVE IN THE FINE ARTS LIBRARY

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*Clarke, John R. Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315. Berkeley, Calif., 2003.

N 72 S6 C58 2003 Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource.

______. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in , 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley, Calif., 1998.

N 5763 C58 1998 Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource.

______. The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration. Berkeley, Calif., 1991.

NA 324 C57 1991 Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource

*______. Roman Sex: 100 BC-AD 250. New York, 2003.

N 5760 C58 2003 Fine Arts Library Reserves

*______. Roman Life: 100 BC-AD 200. New York: Abrams, 2007. With interactive CD-ROM.

DG 78 C577 2007 TEXT DG 78 C577 2007 CD-ROM Fine Arts Library Reserves

Cooley, Alison. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2004. DG 70 P7 C628 2004 Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource

Dobbins, John J. and Pedar W. Foss, editors. The World of Pompeii. London: Routledge, 2007.

DG 70 P7 W77 2007 TEXT DG 70 P7 W77 2007 CDROM Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource

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Mau, August. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New ed., rev., Washington: McGrath, 1973(1902). DG 70 P7 M4413 1973 Fine Arts Library Reserves

Meiggs, Russell. Roman Ostia. 2d ed., Oxford, 1973. DG 70 O8 M4 1973 Fine Arts Library Reserves. Also electronic resource.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Houses and Society in Pompeii and . Princeton, N.J., 1994. DG 70 P7 W33 1994 Fine Arts Library Reserves

Zanker, Paul. Pompeii: Public and Private Life. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. DG 70 P7 Z3613 1998 Fine Arts Library Reserves

______. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1990.

N 5760 Z36 1990 Fine Arts Library Reserves

*Required texts.

WEB SITES

http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/index.htm

Jackie and Bob Dunn provide photographs, plans, and descriptions of all buildings in Pompeii, with work on , , and Boscoreale

http://www.ostia-antica.org/ Page | 12

Created by Theo Bakker and friends; includes videos, topographical dictionary, Portus and the Necropolis of Isola Sacra, texts, graffiti, bibliography, facebook page