CLAS 160B1 ROME: LIFE, DEATH, and SPECTACLE Fall 2012 4:00 4:50pm MoWeFr Social Sciences, Rm 100

0 Dr. Philip Waddell 214 Learning Services Building (520) 621-7418 waddell@email.arizona.edu Office Hours: MoTh 11-12 (and by appt.) COURSE TAs: James Duffy Chantel Osborne Alvaro Pires Jessica Wiles REQUIRED TEXTS: Jo-Ann Shelton, As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History (Oxford, 1998) ISBN: 978-0195089745 John Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City (Johns Hopkins, 1988) ISBN: 978-0801836923 COURSE DESCRIPTION: From antiquity to the present, Rome, especially ancient Rome, has always held a special fascination. This course addresses many questions about what life was like in ancient Rome, and in the Empire in general, such as: where did Romans live? what did they eat? how did they worship? where did they work? how did they spend their leisure time? how did they govern themselves? how did they design cities? what did ancient Rome look like? In order to answer these questions, we will be investigating ancient texts and inscriptions, as well as Romes physical remains. In this class we will be using textual criticism, archaeology, epigraphy, and topography to better understand the Romans and, ultimately, ourselves. COURSE POLICIES: There will be no make-up exams/quizzes unless as the result of an excused absence or the instructor has been contacted BEFORE the exam/quiz concerning alternate arrangements. The recording of lectures is strictly prohibited. Students are responsible for completing the assigned readings and homework listed on the schedule BEFORE that days lecture. GRADING: Letter grades for the course are assigned as follows: A (100-90%), B (89-80%), C (79-70%), D (69-60%), E (below 60%). They will be based on the following breakdown: 3 examinations (at 33% each) duffyj08@email.arizona.edu osbornec@email.arizona.edu aeopires@email.arizona.edu jswiles@email.arizona.edu

These examinations will include multiple choice questions with some short answer and identification sections. A review sheet will be posted on D2L approximately one week prior to the exam date. University Policies Students with disabilities should contact the UA Disability Resource Center (621-3268, http://drc.arizona.edu/) for any special needs or accommodations. UAs Code of Academic Integrity particularly the section on plagiarism (http://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/codeofacademicintegrity) will be rigorously enforced. Be sure to familiarize yourself with it. Absences pre-approved by the UA Dean of Students (or Dean's designee) will be honored (according to the policies above), as will all holidays or special events observed by organized religions for those students who show affiliation with a particular religion (see further the UA Calendar of Religious Holidays, http://www.registrar.arizona.edu/religiousholidays/calendar.htm). In class, please always be respectful of others (see further the UA Policy on Threatening Behavior by Students, http://policy.arizona.edu/threatening-behavior-students) and practice common courtesy, e.g. turn off cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices, do not come to class late or leave early, do not read the Arizona Daily Wildcat or any other publication not related to the course during class. Warning: THIS COURSE WILL CONTAIN ADULT MATERIAL AND LANGUAGE OF A GRAPHIC AND SEXUAL NATURE. IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY SUCH THINGS, YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER TAKING ANOTHER COURSE. COURSE SCHEDULE: Please note that the information on this syllabus is subject to change in accordance with the unforeseen demands of the semester. Texts marked with * indicate that these will be made available on D2L. Introduction And what is Rome? Syllabus Approaching the Urbs Aeterna Shelton xxiii-xxv, 1-3 Roman Geography Stambaugh 1-15; Cicero De Re Publica 2.5-11* Roman Class System, Government Shelton 4-15, 203-36 Roman Family Patria Potestas and pietas Shelton 16-36, 292-94; Stambaugh 158-161

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Marriage Shelton 37-51 No Classes Labor Day Roman Education Shelton 100-122 Housing the Town house Shelton 59-63; Stambaugh 161-82 Housing the Insula Apartment and the Villa Shelton 63, 71-78 Slaves Shelton 163-85 Work the Plebs, Freedpersons Shelton 123-34, 186-202 Work the Senate and Equestrians Shelton 135-162 Review for Exam 1 EXAM 1 Eating and Dining: Romans and Food Shelton 79-85, 314-317; Stambaugh 143-49, 206-209; Petronius Satyricon* Sex and the City Ovid, Catullus, Martial Shelton 51-58 In the City . . . Juvenal Satire 3* Roman Spectacle Shelton 329-48 Gladiators and the Arena Death as Spectacle (1) Shelton 348-58 Rome as Showspace Metatheatrics Tacitus Historiae (sel.)* Religion Traditional Roman Religion State Cults Shelton 359-91, 417-420 Religion Judaism, Isis, Cybele, Mithras, Christianity Shelton 391-416 Philosophy Epicurianism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism Shelton 420-30 Patrician Funerals Death as Spectacle (2) Shelton 91-98; CIL selections*; Stambaugh 194-97 Roman Underworld the Catacombs TBA Review for Exam 2 EXAM 2 Topography Introduction Stambaugh 16-35, 89-100 Rome: AUC to the Late Republic Major Temples, the Forum Stambaugh 36-47, 101-114, 214-24

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Roman Infrastructure Stambaugh 123-35, 188-93 Augustan Revolution Campus Martius and Res Gestae Stambaugh 48-66; Res Gestae Divi Augusti* Augustan Revolution Forum Augusti Stambaugh 114-22 Nero: Public Spectacle What better than his baths? Stambaugh 67-71; Stambaugh 225-240 Nero: Privatizing Rome the Domus Aurea Domus Aurea File* Roman Baths Shelton 309-314; Stambaugh 201-206 No Classes Veterans Day Vespasian and Titus: Deconstructing Nero Stambaugh 71-73 Domitian: Re-animating Nero Stambaugh 73-75 Trajan and Hadrian: Rebooting Augustus Stambaugh 75-80 Roma Christiana Constantines Rome and Beyond Stambaugh 84-85 No Classes Thanksgiving Cities of the Empire: Pompeii Stambaugh 260-67 Cities of the Empire: Pompeii (2) TBA Cities of the Empire: Antioch TBA Cities of the Empire: Antioch (2) TBA Review for Final Exam FINAL EXAM