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The Ancient City

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction to the Study of Ancient Cities
  • Polis : The City of Athens
  • Urbs : The City of Rome
  • Religion in the Greek City
  • Religion in the Roman City
  • Civic space I: The Agora
  • Civic space II: The Forum
  • Feeding the City
  • Domestic Space
  • Recreational Space
  • City and Country: Theories of the City
  • Conclusions

Readings

  • Camp, J. M. The Archaeology of Athens . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780300101515.
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  • Claridge, A. Rome : An Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780192880031.
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  • Stambaugh, J. E. The Ancient Roman City . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801836923.
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  • Polis : The City of Athens
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  • Pausanias. Description of Greece . 1.1.1 to 1.30.4. Translated into English by W. H. S. Jones, Litt.D., and H. A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. ISBN: 9780674991040.
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  • Urbs : The City of Rome
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  • Dudley, Donald R. Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City & its Monuments . London, UK: Phaidon Press, 1967, pp. 3-31.
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  • Review: Pausanias. Description of Greece . 1.1.1 to 1.30.4. Translated into English by W. H. S. Jones, Litt.D., and H. A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. ISBN: 9780674991040.
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  • Neils, Jenifer, ed. “The Panathenaia: An Introduction.” In Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 13-27. ISBN: 9780691002231.
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  • Rhodes, Robin F. Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 42-65. ISBN: 9780521469814.
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  • Simon, Erika. Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary . Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, pp. 55-72. ISBN: 9780299091842.
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  • Beard, Mary, and Michael Crawford. Rome in the Late Republic . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, pp. 25-39. ISBN: 9780801493331.
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  • Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome . Vol. I. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 167-210. ISBN: 9780521316828.
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  • Aristotle. Constitution of the Athenians 42-69 . Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950.
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  • Lang, Mabel. The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora . Revised edition. Revised by J. Camp. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Revised edition, 2005. ISBN: 9780876616420.
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  • Camp. pp. 257-261 and please review discussions of the Agora in chapter 4, pp. 59-160 passim .
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  • Millett, Paul. “Encounters in the Agora.” In Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens . Edited by Paul Cartledge. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 203-228. ISBN: 9780521570817.
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  • Polybius. Histoires Book 6 . Edited by R. Weil, and C. Nicolet. Paris, France: Les Belles Lettres, 1969. ISBN: 9782251004433.
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  • Patterson, J. “The City of Rome: from Republic to Empire.” Journal of Roman Studies 82 (1992): 186-215.
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  • Purcell, Nicholas. “Forum Romanum.” In Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Edited by M. Steinby. Los Angeles, California: Getty Trust Publications, 1995, pp. 325-341. ISBN: 9788870970197.
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  • ———. “Rediscovering the Roman Forum.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 2 (1989): 156-166.
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  • Rickman, Geoffrey. The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 156-197. ISBN: 9780198148388.
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  • Jameson, M. “Private Space and the Greek City.” In The Greek City from Homer to Alexander . Edited by Oswyn Murray, and Simon Price. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 171-195. ISBN: 9780198147916.
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  • Nevett, Lisa. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 53-79. ASIN: B000O7J13Q.
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  • Richardson, Lawrence. Pompeii: An Architectural History . Baltimore, MD: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 382-400. ISBN: 9780801835339.
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  • Vitruvius. On Architecture, Book 6 . London, UK: Heineman, 1962.
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  • Ellis, Simon. Roman Housing . London, UK: Duckworth, 2002, pp. 166-178. ISBN: 9780715628775.
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  • Wycherley, Richard E. How the Greeks Built Cities . 2nd ed. London, UK: Macmillan, 1962, pp. 139-174.
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  • Fisher, N. “Gymnasia and the Democratic Values of Leisure.” In Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens . Edited by Paul Cartledge et. al. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 84-104. ISBN: 9780521570817.
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  • Brothers, A. J. “Buildings for Entertainment.” In Roman Public Buildings . Edited by I. M. Barton. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1989, pp. 97-125. ISBN: 9780859892391.
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  • Finley, Moses. The Ancient Economy . 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 123-149. ISBN: 9780520054523.
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  • Whittaker, C. R. “Do Theories of the City Matter?” In Urban Society in Roman Italy . Edited by Tim Cornell, and Kathryn Lomas. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994, pp. 9-26. ISBN: 9780312124168.
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  • Horden, Peregrine, and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp. 89-122. ISBN: 9780631218906.
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  • Claridge, A. Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780192880031.
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