Roman Civilization

CMS 206 /History 206

 Week 2 Homework (1/17; 1/19; 1/21)

 Read Wednesday Night to Prepare for Friday Lecture

• The Tombs
  • ARC - p. 194-197 [Tombs]
  • RCiv. v.I - Section 184 (p. 523-525) [Epitaphs from Burial Places]
  • RCiv. v. II - Section 40 (p. 145) [Tombstone of an Impresario]
  • RCiv. v.II - Section 54 (p. 193-198) [Sepulchral Inscriptions]; Section 100 (p.361) [Allia Potestas' tombstone]
• The Campus Martius
  •  ARC - p. 243-254 [ Theory & Practice of Building Towns]
  • RCiv. v.I - Section 6 (p. 61-62) [Livy on the Pomerium]

• Lewis Mumford, The City in History (Hartcourt Brace & Co., 1961): chapter 8 (Megalopolis into Necrapolis) [205-242]
• I.M. Barton (ed), Roman Public Buildings (University of Exeter Press, Exeter: 1989):
  • Chapter 1 (Roman Town Planning by E.J. Owens &endash; 7-30);
  • Chapter 5 (Aqueducts (127-150)
• F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr. C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989): Chapter 4 &endash; The Organization of Roman Space (73-89);
• Bridge, J.J.R. (1932) The Roman Wall. In: Greece and Rome. - Bd. 1 (1932). - S. 158-162.
• Leach, Eleanor Winsor "Horace Carmen 1.8: Achilles, The Campus Martius, and the Articulation of Gender Roles in Augustan Rome" CPh 89.4 (1994) 334 ff
• Jaeger, Mary "Reconstructing Rome: the Campus Martius and Horace, Ode 1.8" Arethusa 28.2/3 (1995) 177 ff
• Gowers, Emily "The Anatomy of Rome from Capitol to Cloaca" JRS 85 (1995) 23 ff
• Macbain, Bruce (1980) Appius Claudius Caecus and the Via Appia. In: The Classical Quarterly. - Bd. 30 (1980). - S. 356 ff
• Herbert, Kevin "The Silk Road: The Link between the Classical World and Ancient China" CB 73.2 (1997) 119-124

Site descriptions in the Oxford Archeological Guide

• Roman Wall: OAG - 59; 294; 312; 333-334; 355; 357-358; 172
• Campus Martius: OAG - 177-228
• The Cloaca & Aqueducts: OAG - 258; 267
• The Roads: OAG - 319

• Mustering the Army
  • ARC - p. 102-106 [City Government]
  • RCvI - Sections 45 (135-36); 89 (229); 163-164 (464-471); 168 (486-87)
    • Livy, Polybius, and Aulus Gellius on the organization and operations of the Roman army
  • Becoming a Soldier
  • Livy, VIII.7-8 [Titus Manlius]
  • Livy, I.24-26 [The Combat of the Horatii and Curiatii]

• Alan K. Bowman, Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier (Routledge, 1994). Chapter 4: The Roman Army (34-50)
• F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr. C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989):
  • Chapter 7 &endash; The army (122-135)
• Livy and Etruscan Women - Iain McDougall