HONR 299R: The City of Rome: Exploration of an Ancient
Built Environment
TTh 9:00-10:15am SC 114
PRELIMINARY SYLLABUS
Prof.
Nicholas K. Rauh
FLL/SC
211
OFFICE
HOURS: Mon. 11:30-12:30 AM; Tues. &
Thurs.
Phone: 496-6079
email:
rauhn@purdue.edu
COURSE OBJECTIVES: The course will expose students to aspects of urban development in the
ancient Mediterranean world by focusing on its largest and greatest city,
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Once per week visits to the Envisioning Center will enable students to present reports about various aspects of Roman material culture. Students will learn to navigate the class through the forum model as well as to locate and to explain topographical elements of the model as they reflect on Roman culture, socıety, and history. Assigned readings will focus on aspects of Roman urban life ranging from questions of logistics and sanitation to political and religious institutions. The primary focus will be on Rome as a built environment. Requirements are as follows:
Ø Each student will report on one assigned reading in class;
Ø
Each student must write a paper
(3-5 pages) about an assigned monument, space, or location in the Roman Forum
focusing on its unique function and history. Paper must be presented in Roman Forum Model at EC.
Ø
Each student must also write and present a
brief report (3-5 pages) of an assigned event that occurred in the forum,
documenting the paper with source literature placed on reserve. Paper must be presented in
Roman Forum Model at EC.
Ø
All students must write a 10-15 page research paper on
some aspect of Greco-Roman urbanism by semester’s end. Presentations of the paper will occur in EC during the last week of
class.
Ø
A Midterm Exam is scheduled for Tues. Feb. 26; there
will be no Final Exam
Ø
Engineering students are encouraged to build
georeferenced models of Roman monuments to interface with the topography of the
Roman Forum on Google Earth.
COURSE
ASSIGNMENTS and GRADING: Reading Report (10%) Midterm Exam (25%); Roman Forum
Report (15%); Roman Event Report (15%); Research Paper (25%); Class Discussion
and Participation (10%).
Make-up exams are possible under extraordinary
circumstances, but they are also more difficult than the originals. Late papers, reports, and presentations will be
penalized.
ATTENDANCE POLICY--ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED (4 absences = 6% deduction from final grade, and so on (1:1.5). Please inform me in advance of any expected absence from class.
Required
Readings in the following:
Rauh,
CLCS 181 Website: Classical World
Civilizations
M. T.
Boatwright, D.J. Gargola, R.J.A. Talbert., A Brief History of the
Romans(Oxford 2005)
P. J. Aicher,
J. Carcopino,
Dailey Life in Ancient Rome (Yale Press)
P. MacKendrick, The Mute Stone
Speaks. (Norton 1983)
Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman Republic. Penguin Books ISBN 140440844
Suetonius,
The
Twelve Caesars, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14044921-3
John E. Stambaugh, The
ONLINE RESOURCES:
The
Forum Romanum, Exploring the Ancient Market Place
Additional
pertinent materials (books and articles) have been placed on reserve
(Undergraduate Library, Hist. 303 Reserve List). A complete reserve list is being prepared for
the class. These will include the following:
F.F. Abbott, Roman Political
Institutions
M. Grant, The Roman Forum
S. B. Platner, The Topography and
Monuments of Ancient
(NY, 1911)
HONR 299R: The
City of Rome: Exploration of an Ancient Built Environment
PRELIMINARY COURSE
SCHEDULE:
Jan 8-22: Brief Overvıew of the History of
Boatwright, A Brief History of the Romans, entire; Plutarch, Lives of Marius, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar;
Jan. 24: Intro to the The 3-D Model of the
Roman Forum at the Envisioning Center
Jan. 29-31: Growth of the City – Etruscan and
Greek Influences in Urban Planning
Stambaugh,
Feb. 5-21: Topographical Aspects of Public Life
at
Stambaugh, 16-122;
TUESDAY FEB. 26 IN CLASS MIDTERM EXAM
Feb. 28-Mar. 4: Limitations of Ancient
Technology with respect to Logistıcs, Sanitation, Hygiene
Stambaugh, 123-156; MacKendrick TBA;
Mar. 6: Built Environment of the Roman
İmperial Bureaucracy (the
Stambaugh, 123-156; MacKendrick TBA; Suetonius, Lives of Tiberius,
Caligula, Claudius.
Mar. 11-13, SPRING BREAK
Mar. 18-20: Private Life at
Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient
Mar. 25-27: Gender Relations as They Reflect on
the Built Environment of
Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, 76-140; Assigned reading TBA
Apr. 1-3::
Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient
Forum Events Papers
Due Friday, April 4, 5:00 PM at Rauh’s Office (SC 211)
Apr. 8-10: Defense of the City (City Walls,
Military Recruitment, the Military Crisis of Late
Stambaugh, 123-156;
MacKendrick TBA; Suetonius, Lives of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian.
Apr. 15-17: NO CLASS; PREPARE EC PRESENTATIONS
(forum model navigation practice session Thurs. Apr. 17 during class hours)
Apr. 22-24: Envisioning Center Project
Presentations
FINAL PAPERS/PROJECTS DUE TUESDAY
APRIL 29.