CLAS 258 / ART 258: CITIES AND SANCTUARIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (RIFE 207)
READINGS
A. Amin and N. Thrift, “The legibility of the everyday city,” in Cities: Reimagining the Urban, pp. 7-30, Cambridge: Polity 2002
W. Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, London: Routledge 2001
S.G. Bassett, “Historiae custos: sculpture and tradition in the Baths of Zeuxippos,” American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996): 491-506
J. M. Camp, The Archaeology of Athens, New Haven: Yale University Press 2001
P. Grimal, Roman Cities, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1983
M. Hammond, The City in the Ancient World, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1972
W.H.J. Liebeschuetz, “The end of the ancient city,” in J. Rich, ed., The City in Late Antiquity, pp. 1-49, London: Routledge 1992
D.J. Mattingly, Tripolitania, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 1994
E.J. Owens, The City in the Greek and Roman World, London: Routledge 1991
R. Osborne, Classical Landscape with Figures: The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside, Londond: Sheridan House 1987
N. Purcell, “The city of Rome,” in R. Jenkyns, ed., The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal, pp. 421-53, Oxford: Clarendon 1992
O. Rackham, “Ancient landscapes,” in O. Murray and S. Price, eds., The Greek City from Homer to Alexander, pp. 85-111, Oxford: Clarendon 1990
W. Radt, “The urban development of Pergamon,” in D. Parrish, ed., Urbanism in Western Asia Minor, pp. 43-56, Portsmouth: JRA 2001
A. Schmidt-Colinet, “Aspects of
‘Romanization’: the tomb architecture at Palmyra and its
decoration,” in S.E. Alcock, ed., The Early Roman Empire in the East, pp. 157-177, Oxford: Oxbow 1997
A. Snodgrass, “Survey archaeology and the rural landscape of the Greek city,” in O. Murray and S. Price, eds., The Greek City from Homer to Alexander, pp. 113-36, Oxford: Clarendon 1990
Selection of ancient to early modern writings and images:
Thucydides 2.34-46 (funeral oration); Aristotle, Politics 3.1 (what is
a state?); Strabo 5.3.7-8 (description of Rome); Pausanias 4.36
(description of Pylos); Pierre Gilles, The Antiquities of
Constantinople 4.11 (1544-7); Giovanni Battista Piranesi, etchings of
Rome (1743-74); James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, etchings of Athens
(1751-4)
J.E. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1988
R. Stoneman, Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia’s Revolt against Rome, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1994
R. Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City, London: Routledge 1992
T. Vrettos, Alexandria: City of the Western Mind, New York: The Free Press 2001
M. Weber, “The nature of the city,” in D. Martindale and G. Neuwirth, eds., The City, pp. 65-89, New York: The Free Press [1921] 1958