1 BSR SUMMER SCHOOL 4-16 SEPTEMBER 2013 PROGRAMME Wednesday 4th September 16.15 Tea in courtyard; building & library tour 18.30 Introductory lecture (Robert Coates-Stephens) 19.30 Drinks 20.00 Dinner (as every day except Saturdays) Thursday 5th September THE TIBER Leave 8.30 Forum Boarium: Temples of Hercules & Portunus / 10.00 Area Sacra di S. Omobono [PERMIT] / ‘Arch of Janus’ / Arch of the Argentarii / S. Maria in Cosmedin & crypt (Ara Maxima of Hercules?) / Tiber Island / ‘Porticus Aemilia’ / 15.00 Monte Testaccio [PERMIT] 18.30 Seminar, in the BSR Library: “Approaches to Roman topography” (RCS) Friday 6th September FEEDING ROME: OSTIA Coach leaves 8.40 Ostia Antica, including 12.00 House of Diana [PERMIT] 18.30 Lecture: “The Triumph” (Ed Bispham) Saturday 7th September THE TRIUMPH OF THE REPUBLIC Leave 8.30 Pantheon / Area Sacra of Largo Argentina / Theatre of Pompey / Porticus of Octavia / Temples of Apollo Sosianus & Bellona / Theatre of Marcellus / 12.00 Three Temples of Forum Holitorium [PERMIT] / Circus Maximus / Meta Sudans / Arch of Constantine / Via Sacra: Arches of Titus, Augustus and Septimius Severus / 15.00 Mamertine prison [PERMIT] 18.30 Lecture: “The Fora” (Ed Bispham) Sunday 8th September FORUM ROMANUM & IMPERIAL FORA Leave 8.30 9.30 Forum Romanum: Introduction, central area [PERMIT] / Comitium, Atrium Vestae, Temples of Concord, Vespasian, Saturn, Castor, Divus Julius, Antoninus and Faustina, Basilicas Aemilia and Julia / Capitoline Museums & Tabularium / 14.00 Imperial Fora: Museo dei Fori Imperiali & Markets of Trajan 18.30 Lecture: “Materials in Construction and Decoration” (RCS) Monday 9th September FREE DAY 18.30 Lecture: “Death, Burial and Afterlife” (RCS) 2 Tuesday 10th September CITIES OF THE DEAD AND LIVING Leave 8.20 Via Appia Antica: Tomb of Caecilia Metella / Circus of Maxentius and Mausoleum of Romulus [PERMIT] / 12.30 Tomb of the Scipios [PERMIT] / Aurelianic Walls & Porta Appia / Porta Maggiore & Tomb of Eurysaces / Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus / Arch of Gallienus (Porta Esquilina) / Clivus Suburanus 18.30 Lecture: “Principes” (EB) Wednesday 11th September PRINCEPS, DOMVS AND RES PVBLICA Leave 8.30 9.30 Palatine: House of Augustus, Palatine Antiquarium, Domus Flavia, Vigna Barberini / 12.00 Fora of Trajan and Caesar [PERMIT] / Forum of Augustus / Ara Pacis / Mausoleum of Augustus (overview) 18.30 Lecture: “Horti Romani” (RCS) Thursday 12th September HORTI ROMANI Leave 8.30 9.30 Montemartini Museum, Via Ostiense / 11.30 Auditorium of Maecenas [PERMIT] / Servian Walls at Termini / FREE AFTERNOON (you may wish to visit a museum or catacomb) 18.30 Lecture: “Panis et Circenses” (EB) Friday 13th September PANIS ET CIRCENSES Leave 8.30 9.30 Baths of Caracalla & mithraeum [PERMIT] / 11.30 Araceli Insula [PERMIT] / 14.00 Colosseum, including visit to the substructures & 2nd floor balcony [PERMIT] 18.30 Lecture: “Rome in Late Antiquity” (RCS) Saturday 14th September TRANSFORMATION Leave 8.20 9.00 Forum Romanum: Lacus Juturnae & Oratory of the Forty Martyrs [PERMIT] / ‘Temple of Romulus’ / Basilica of Maxentius / 10.45 S. Clemente / Neronian nymphaeum of Domus Aurea / Arch of Dolabella / 11.45 Temple of Claudius [PERMIT] / 12.00 domus under SS. Giovanni & Paolo [PERMIT] / 14.00 Museum of the Crypta Balbi & excavations [PERMIT] / S. Maria in Trastevere Sunday 15th September HINTERLAND Coach leaves 8.40 Villa of Hadrian Tivoli Monday 16th September COURSE ENDS .