ART OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Fall semester 2010 ARH 362; unique no. 20100 MWF 1‐2
Prof. Penelope J. E. Davies DFA 2.518 232‐2362 [email protected] Office hours MW 2‐3 or by appt.
Course description: This course covers the art and architecture of Republican Rome, ca. 500‐44 BC, when Rome began to establish dominance in the Mediterranean and to develop an artistic tradition that would flourish into the Empire. Copious wealth from victories abroad leads to massive public works such as temples, civic buildings and triumphal monuments; newly‐developed cement offers freedom to architects to innovate in unimagined ways; and portraiture and historical narrative articulate the competing ambitions of elite families, jostling for political prominence. Students should gain a good grounding in Republican Roman visual culture and politics, and be able to assess works of art within their political and social context.
Reading: There is no textbook for this class. A History of the Roman Republic by Klaus Bringmann is mandatory reading, to provide a context for the lectures. Additional readings for individual classes will be provided online. For students with little familiarity with ancient Rome, A. and N. Ramage, Roman Art, from Romulus to Constantine, provides a superficial overview. General information concerning sites in Rome can be found in L. Richardson Jr’s A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome and the more comprehensive 5‐volume Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae edited by M. Steinby (in a variety of languages). Both of these works are available in the Classics Library Reference Room. Also useful: Axel Boethius, Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (Pelican 1970); Amanda Claridge, Rome, An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford 1998); Diana E.E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (Yale 1992); Frank Sear, Roman Architecture (Cornell 1983); Timothy J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge 1995).
Grading: One in‐class test (20%); two mid‐term exams (30% each); one presentation (20%). No make‐up exams will be given; a research paper may be substituted for one of the exams. Attendance is not mandatory and does not factor into your grade, but you are unlikely to excel in this class if you miss lectures.
Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, 471‐6259.
The following is a tentative schedule of classes:
August 25 Introduction
August 27 Introduction
August 30 Sources and documents Additional reading: Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford UP 1999) Harriet Flower, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic (Cambridge 2004)
September 1 Topography of Rome
September 3 The regal period Additional reading: Timothy J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000‐ 264BC) (Routledge 1995)
September 6 Labor Day
September 8 Reading day
September 10 Test
September 13 Religion and politics Additional reading: Eric Orlin, Temples, religion and politics (Brill 1997) Mary Beard, John North & Simon Price, Religions of Rome (Cambridge UP 1998) 1–113 John E. Stambaugh, “The functions of Roman temples,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt (Berlin, 1972‐) II.16.1, 554– 608 John Stamper, The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire (Cambridge 2005) 6–83
September 15 Religion and politics
September 17 Religion and politics
September 20 Religion and politics
September 22 Magistrates and urban development Additional reading: Filippo Coarelli, “Public building in Rome between the Second Punic War and Sulla,” PBSR 45 (1977) 1– 23 Karl J. Hölkeskamp, “Conquest, competition and consensus: Roman expansion in Italy and the rise of the nobilitas,” Historia 42 (1993) 12–38 Mario Torelli, “The topography and archaeology of Republican Rome,” A Companion to the Roman Republic, ed. N. Rosenstein and R. Morstein‐Marx (Oxford 2006) 81–99 Katherine Welch, “Art and architecture in the Roman Republic,” A Companion to the Roman Republic, ed. N. Rosenstein and R. Morstein‐Marx (Oxford 2006) 496–542 Bruce MacBain, “Appius Claudius Caecus and the Via Appia,” CQ 30 (1980) 356–372 Robert Develin, “The political position of C. Flaminius,” RLM/RhM 122 (1979) 268–277 Katherine Welch, “A new view of the origins of the Basilica: the Atrium Regium, Graecostasis, and Roman diplomacy,” JRA 16 (2003) 5‐34 Erich S. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (Cornell 1992) 183–187 M. Dauster, “Roman Republican sumptuary legislation,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, ed. Carl Deroux (Latomus 2003) 65–93 A. Lintott, “Electoral bribery in the Roman Republic,” JRS 80 (1990) 1–16 Andrew Wallace‐Hadrill, Rome’s Cultural Revolution (Cambridge 2008) 315–355
September 24 Magistrates and urban development
September 27 Magistrates and urban development
September 29 Magistrates and urban development
October 1 Spoils and the city Additional reading: Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph (Harvard 2007) Margaret Miles, Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property (Cambridge 2008) Jerome J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge 1982)150– 184 J. Bradford Churchill, “Ex qua quod vellent facerent: Roman magistrates’ authority over praeda and manubiae,” TAPA 129 (1999) 85–116 Israël Shatzman, “The Roman general’s authority over booty,” Historia 21 (1972) 177–205 Mario Torelli, Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs (Ann Arbor 1982) 5–25 Ann L. Kuttner, “Some new grounds for narrative: Marcus Antonius’ Base (The Ara Domitii Ahenobarbi) and Republican biographies,” Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, ed. Peter J. Holliday (Cambridge 1993) 198–229
October 4 Spoils and the city
October 6 Spoils and the city
October 8 Spoils and the city
October 11 Review
October 13 Mid‐term exam
October 15 Honorary monuments Additional reading: L. Pietilä‐Castrén, Magnificentia publica. The Victory Monuments of the Roman Generals in the Era of the Punic Wars (Helsinki 1987)
October 18 Honorary monuments
October 20 Houses
October 22 Reading day
October 25 Tombs
October 27 Tombs
October 29 Tombs
November 1 Portraits Additional reading: Jeremy Tanner, “Portraits, power and patronage in the late Roman Republic,” JRS 90 (2000) 18– 50 R. R. R. Smith, Hellenistic Royal Portraits (Oxford 1988) 125–129 Diana E. E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (New Haven–London 1992) Jane Fejfer, Roman Portraits in Context (2009)
November 3 The late Republic
November 5 The late Republic Additional reading: Pier Luigi Tucci, “"Where high Moneta leads her steps sublime." The "Tabularium" and the Temple of Juno Moneta,” JRA 18 (2005) 6–33
November 8 The late Republic
November 10 Pompey the Great
November 12 Julius Caesar Additional reading: Diane Favro, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (Cambridge 1996)
November 15 Julius Caesar
November 17 The Ides of March
November 19 Review
November 22 Mid‐term exam
November 24 Reading day
November 26 Thanksgiving break
November 29 Presentations
December 1 Presentations
December 3 Presentations