Courses of Study 2011-2012 
    
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Courses of Study 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 3210 - The Archaeology of the City of Rome

(crosslisted)
(also CLASS 3736 ) # (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

A. Alexandridis.

This lecture class is a history of Rome and its Empire from 700 BCE to 400 CE told through the urban image of the capital itself.  Besides a chronological and topographical overview of the city’s development.  Main emphasis will be on five aspects of the urban space: the relationship of power, ritual and space (the most important temples, the residences and funerary monuments of the emperors, finally the churches); entertainment and public spectacle (baths, the Colosseum, theaters); economy and trade (storehouses at Tiber, Monte Testaccio, Rome’s harbor Ostia); the infrastructure (Cloaca maxima, aquaeducts, city quarters), and the boundaries of the city (the pomerium, the city walls, roads leading into the city).



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