ARTH 3210 - [The Archaeology of the City of Rome]

(crosslisted) ARKEO 3010, CLASS 3736
(HB) (CA-AS)

Next offered 2017-2018. 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).