CMS 206
Roman Civilization
Strongly Recommended Readings
Week 1
- Géza Alföldy, The Social History of Rome (Hopkins, 1975),
- Chapter 4 - The Crisi of the Republic and Roman Society (65-93)
- Chapter 5 - The Social System of the Early Empire (94-156)
- F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr. C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989):
- Chapter 1 - Naming and Honor (3-29)
- Chapter 2 - Wealth & Poverty (3-55)
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites entry on Rome. (You should
use this site as a resource throughout the course.)
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Week 2
- 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; 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
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Week 3
- Flory, Marleen B. "The Integration of Women into the Roman Triumph" Historia
47.4 (1998) 489-494
- Wardle, D. "Agrippa's Refusal of a Triumph in 19 B.C." Antichthon 28 (1994)
58-64 -+-
- Brennan, T. Corey "M.' Curius Dentatus and the Praetor's Right to Triumph"
Historia 43.4 (1994) 423 -+-
- Kleijwegt, M. "Caligula's 'Triumph' at Baiae" Mnemosyne 47.5 (1994) 652
-+-
- Schmidt, T.E. "The Crucifixion Narrative and the Roman Triumphal Procession"
NTS 41.1 (1995) 1 -+-
- 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; The army (122-135)
- Livy and
Etruscan Women - Iain McDougall
- Sumi, Geoffrey S. "Power and Ritual: The Crowd at Clodius' Funeral" Historia
46.1 (1997) 80-102 -+-
- Jones, Rick "Backwards and Forwards in Roman Burial" JRA 6 (1993) 427-432
-+-
- Ramage, E.S. "The so-called 'Laudatio Turiae' as Panegyric" Athenaeum 82[72].2
(1994) 341-370 -+-
- Welch, K. "Greek stadia and Roman spectacles: Asia, Athens, and the tomb
of Herodes Atticus" JRA 11 (1998) 117-145
- Hawass, Zahi "Oasis of the Dead [Roman tombs at Bahareya Oasis]" Archaeology
52.5 (1999) 38-43 -+-
- Roman Legionary Forces
in Sicily - Edward D. Clark
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Week 4
- L.R. Taylor, Roman Voting Assemblies (University of Michigan Press, 1990);
Chapters I,2, 6 (1-14; 15-33; 86-113)
- I.M. Barton (ed), Roman Public Buildings (University of Exeter Press, Exeter:
1989): Chapter 2: Civic and Other Buildings by John Carter: 31-66)
- F. Dupont, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, tr. C. Woodall (Hatchett, 1989):
Chapter 8- Living in Rome (136-159); Chapter 9 ; Political Life in the city
(160-176)
- Laurence, Ray "Rumor and Commumication in Roman Politics" G&R 41.1 (1994)
62 -+-
- Cluett, Ronald G. "Roman Women and Triumviral Politics, 43-37 B.C." EMC
17.1 (1998) 67-84 -+-
- Sherwin-White, A.N. "Violence in Roman Politics" JRS 46 (1956) 1-9 -+-
- Tsirkin, Ju.B. "Romanization of Spain: socio-political aspect" Gerion 11
(1993) 271-312 -+-
- Burckhardt, L.A. "The Political Elite of the Roman Republic: Comments on
Recent Discussion of the Concepts Nobilitas and Homo Novus" Historia 39 (1990)
77-99 -+-
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