Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Kavita Ayer
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Ian Plant
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit provides an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Roman world from the late republic until the early imperial period. Learn about the development of the city of Rome from its foundation through to its transformation into the imperial capital of the Roman Empire under Augustus and his successors. We will analyse a wide range of ancient visual texts, including monuments, private buildings, buildings for entertainment and leisure, sculpture, painting, gems and coins as well as a selection of ancient written sources. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between art, architecture and the development of Roman politics and society.
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Submission of Assignments: All written assessments are to be submitted to Turnitin via the iLearn site by their respective due dates and times (which are all listed according to local Sydney time).
Access to the internet and the ability to download and/or view unit materials are essential. Ability to work with word processing software is required for written assessments, respectively. Further, an internet connection that allows for downloading of powerpoints and other files is also necessary.
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Assignments will be assessed on their level of completion, coherence, grammar, and comprehension.
Assessment tasks are compulsory and must be submitted on time.
Late Submission: Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
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For Disruptions to Studies Policy, look under Policies and Procedures.
Note on Assessment - To complete the unit satisfactorily you will need to achieve an overall mark worth 50% or above. It is highly recommended that you participate in all online discussions and complete the weekly readings.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON FINAL MARKS: Please note with respect to the marks you receive for work during the session: that the marks given are indicative only; final marks will be determined after moderation. See further the note on Results in the Policies and Procedures section below.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Source Analysis I | 25% | No | Friday, Week 4 |
Source Analysis II | 25% | No | Friday, Week 9 |
Major Essay | 40% | No | Friday, Week 13 |
Online Discussion | 10% | No | Ongoing |
Due: Friday, Week 4
Weighting: 25%
Assessment 1: Source Analysis I
Due: 5pm (EST) of Friday , Week 4
Word Limit: 1000 words
Value: 25%
Answer the following question:
What do funerary art and architecture reveal about Roman social status?
In your response, you need to make reference to specific items of ancient evidence to support your answer. You will base your work on the ancient material that was discussed in Week 3, particularly the images that were examined. In addition, you are encouraged to find further ancient examples of funerary art and architecture (e.g. from reputable museum websites and from the modern works listed below that are available through Unit Readings). Please restrict your ancient examples to the republican and early imperial periods (ie. until the end of the 1st century A.D.). You also need to consider and incorporate the arguments made in modern works discussing Roman funerary art and architecture into your own response.
When citing the ancient or modern evidence upon which you are basing any observation, you should make use of footnotes. Any material in footnotes is not considered to be part of your word-length. Please consult the relevant referencing guides provided for further details about referencing requirements.
A bibliography of ancient and modern works utilised must be provided.
Modern works you can consult are listed below. All of these works are available through the 'Unit Readings' on MQ library's multisearch:
* Bianchi Bandinelli, R. Rome the Centre of Power (London, 1969), pp.51-105.
* D' Ambra, E., 'A myth for a Smith: A Meleager sarcophagus from a tomb in Ostia', American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 92 (1988), pp.85-100.
* D'Ambra, Eve, Roman Art (Cambridge, 1998), pp.38-57.
* Dunbabin, Katherine M.D. 'The Roman banquet: images of conviviality', (New York, 2003), pp.103-140.
* Hope, V. 'Constructing Roman identity: funerary monuments and social structure in the Roman world', Mortality 2 (1997), pp.103-121.
* Hope, Valerie. 'A Roof Over the Dead: Communal Tombs and Family Structure', in R. Laurence and A. Wallace-Hadrill (eds.), Domestic Space in the Roman World (Portsmouth, RI, 1997), pp.69-88.
* Inez Scott, Ryberg, 'Rites of the State Religion in Roman Art', Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 22, Rites of the State Religion in Roman Art (1955); complete monograph available via the 'jstor' database (accessible through the Macquarie University Library website)
* Kampen, N. B., 'Biographical Narration and Roman Funerary Art', American Journal of Archaeology 85 (1981), pp.47-58.
* Kleiner, Diana E.E. and Buxton, Bridget, 'Pledges of Empire: The Ara Pacis and the Donations of Rome', American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (2008), pp.57-90.
* Kousser, M. 'Mythological Group Portraits in Antonine Rome', The American Journal of Archaeology, Vol 111.4 (2007), pp.673-691.
* Meyer, Elizabeth A. 'Explaining the Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire: The Evidence of Epitaphs', The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 80, (1990), pp. 74-96
* Patterson, J. 'Living and Dying in the City of Rome: Houses and Tombs', in Coulston, John and Dodge, Hazel (eds.) Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.259-289.
* Patterson, J. R. 'Patronage, collegia and burial in Imperial Rome', in S. Bassett (ed.) Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600 (Leicester, 1992), pp.15-27.
* Petersen, Lauren Hackworth, The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History (Cambridge, 2006), pp.84-120.
* Peterson, L. H. 'The Baker, His Tomb, His Wife, and Her Breadbasket: The Monument of Eurysaces in Rome', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, (2003), pp.230-257.
* Platner, Samuel Ball (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby), A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London, 1929)., available online: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/sepulcra.html
* Pollini, John, 'Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome', in N. Laneri (ed.) Performing Death (Chicago, 2007), pp.237-285, available online at: http://www.portraitsofcaligula.com/clients/6600/File/Pollini-%20Article%20on%20Death%20Masks(1).pdf
* Stewart, P. Roman Art (Oxford, 2004), pp.53-73.
* Stewart, P. The Social History of Roman Art (Cambridge, 2008), pp.62-76.
* Sumi, G. S. 'Impersonating the Dead: Mimes at Roman Funerals', The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 123, No. 4 (2002), pp. 559-585.
* Wood, S. 'Alcestis on Roman sarcophagi', American Journal of Archaeology 82 (1978), pp.499-510.
Due: Friday, Week 9
Weighting: 25%
Assessment 2: Source Analysis II
Due: 5pm (EST) Friday, Week 9
Word Limit: 1000 words
Value: 25%
Answer the following question:
How does the Ara Pacis Augustae reflect Augustus' vision of a Roman 'golden age'?
In your response, you need to make reference to specific items of ancient evidence to support your answer. You will base your work on the images of the Ara Pacis Augustae discussed in in Week 8. You may find it useful to draw upon further images from the Ara Pacis Augustae that you come across. In addition, you need to consider and incorporate ancient written sources on the Augustan age as well as the arguments made in modern works discussing the Ara Pacis Augustae into your own response.
In this assignment, you are expected to analyse three types of sources: (i) specific visual images from panels of the Ara Pacis Augustae; (ii) ancient written sources (eg. the Res Gestae); and (iii) modern works on the topic.
Please consult the relevant referencing guide provided. A bibliography of ancient and modern works utilised must be provided.
Modern works you can consult are listed below. All of these works are available through 'Unit Readings':
* Billows, R. 'The Religious Procession of the Ara Pacis: Augustus' Supplicatio in 13 B. C.', Journal of Roman Archaeology, 6, (1993), pp. 80-92.
* Bosworth, Brian. 'Augustus, the Res Gestae and Hellenistic theories of apotheosis', Journal of Roman Studies , 89 (1999), pp.1-18.
* Conlin, Diane Atnally. The artists of the Ara Pacis: the process of Hellenization in Roman relief sculpture(Chapel Hill, 1997), pp.57-90.
* Elsner, J. 'Cult and Sculpture: Sacrifice in the Ara Pacis Augustae', The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 81, (1991), pp. 50-61.
* Elsner, J. 'Inventing Imperium: Texts and the Propaganda of Monuments in Augustan Rome', in J. Elsner (ed.) Art and Text in Roman Culture (Cambridge, 1996), pp.32-54.
* Elsner, John. 'Cult and Sculpture: Sacrifice in the Ara Pacis Augustae', The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 81, (1991), pp.50-61.
* Favro, Diane. ' "Pater urbis": Augustus as City Father of Rome', The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 51, No. 1 (1992), pp.61-84.
* Galinsky. Karl. 'Venus, Polysemy, and the Ara Pacis Augustae', American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 96, No. 3 (1992), pp.457-475.
* Grummond, N. de. 'The Goddess Peace on the Ara Pacis', American Journal of Archaeology (1990), pp. 663-77.
* Guven, S. 'Displaying the Res Gestae of Augustus: A Monument of Imperial Image for All', The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 57, No. 1 (1998), pp. 30-45.
* Haselberger, L. (2000), 'Imaging Augustan Rome', Journal of Roman Archaeology 13, pp.515-28.
* Holliday, P.J. 'Time, History and Ritual in the Ara Pacis Augustae', Art Bulletin 72 (1990), pp.542-57.
* Kampen, N. B. 'The Muted Other', Art Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, (1988), pp. 15-19.
* Kleiner, Diana E. E. 'The great friezes of the Ara Pacis Augustae. Greek sources roman derivatives and Augustan social policy', Mélanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome, Vol. 90 (1978), pp.753-785.
* Moretti, G. The Ara Pacis Augustae, trans. V. Preistley (Italy, 1975), pp.8-16.
* Rehak, P. 'Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the meaning of the Ara Pacis Augustae', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, (2001), pp. 190-208.
* Rose, C. B. 'Princes and Barbarians on the Ara Pacis', American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 94, No. 3 (1990), pp.453-467.
* Thornton, M. K. 'Augustan Genealogy and the Ara Pacis', Latomus 42 (1983) pp. 619-28.
* Torelli, M., Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs (Ann Arbor 1982), pp.27-62.
* Toynbee, J. M. C. The 'Ara Pacis Augustae', The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 51, Parts 1 and 2 (1961), pp. 153-156.
* Toynbee, J.M.C. 'The Ara Pacis reconsidered, and historical art in Roman Italy', Proceedings of the British Academy (1953), pp. 67-95.
* Wallace Hadrill, A. 'The Golden Age and Sin in Augustan Ideology', Past and Present 95 (1982), 19-36.
* Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. 'Image and authority in the coinage of Augustus', Journal of Roman Studies , 76 (1986), pp.66-87.
* Weinstock, S., 'Pax and the Ara Pacis', Journal of Roman Studies, 1960 Vol. 50, Parts 1 and 2 (1960), pp. 44-58.
* Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor, 1998), pp.167-238.
If you'd like to research further for this essay, you can make use of Macquarie University Library's databases such as JSTOR.
Due: Friday, Week 13
Weighting: 40%
Assessment 3: Major Essay
Due: 5pm (EST) of Friday , Week 13
Word Limit: 2500 words
Value: 40%
Answer the following question:
You may choose to look at the broad sweep of art and architecture we have examined or concentrate on one type of art (e.g. coins or portraiture) AND one architectural form (e.g. temples). Your response should not duplicate issues or material discussed in the previous assessments.
In your response, you need to make reference to specific items of ancient evidence to support your answer. You will base your work on a selection of ancient material discussed throughout the course, such as the images and written sources we have examined in lectures and tutorials. You also need to consider and incorporate the arguments made in modern works constructing your own response.
As with the previous assessment items, when citing the ancient or modern evidence upon which you are basing any observation, you should make use footnotes. Any material in footnotes is not considered to be part of your word-length.
Please consult the relevant referencing guides provided. A bibliography of ancient and modern works utilised must be provided.
For modern works you can consult for this essay, see the reading lists provided under weekly lecture and tutorial topics. All of these works are available through 'Unit Readings'.
NOTE: This assessment is due on Friday of Week 13
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Assessment 4: Participation in Online Discussion
Due: Each week that there is set readings and discussions (all weeks except for Weeks 4, 9 and 13)
Value: 10%
In addition to submitting material for assessment, you are strongly encouraged to take part in weekly online discussions about the weekly readings.
Please note that participation in online discussions accounts for 10% of your overall mark.
This class is offered externally via OUA. Students will access course material via the iLearn website. All students will need internet access that allows the downloading of files and additional resources in order to pass AHIX265 Art and Architecture Through Roman Eyes. All lectures, assignments, and readings will be posted on the course's iLearn site. Additional resources, including weblinks and additional directions will also appear there.
Macquarie University requires that written works be submitted to turnitin (via iLearn).
Required Textbooks:
M. Henig, (ed.), A Handbook of Roman Art (London, 1983).
F. Sear, Roman Architecture (London, 1998).
Books can be obtained from http://www.coop.com.au
WEEK |
LECTURE TOPIC |
TUTORIAL TOPIC |
ASSESSMENTS DUE |
Week 1 |
Italy Before the Romans: Art and Architecture of the Greeks and Etruscans
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The Visual Commemoration of Rome's Foundation
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Week 2 |
Republican Rome I: The Development of the City of Rome and Monumental Structures
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Religion and Everyday Life |
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Week 3 |
Republican Rome II: Portraiture
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Roman Funerary Art
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Week 4 |
Republican Rome III: Private Buildings
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No tutorial |
Source Analysis I due |
Week 5 |
Republican Rome IV: Buildings for Entertainment and Leisure
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Warfare in Roman Art
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Week 6 |
Republican Rome V: Artistic Traditions
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Roman Erotic Art
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Week 7 |
Augustan Rome I: The Imperial Capital of Augustus
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Augustan Coinage
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Week 8 |
Augustan Rome II: Monumental Structures
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The Ara Pacis Augustae
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Week 9 |
Augustan Rome III: The Image of Augustus
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No tutorial |
Source Analysis II due |
Week 10 |
Julio-Claudian Art and Architecture I: Monumental Structures
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The Tradition of Damnatio Memoriae
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Week 11 |
Julio-Claudian Art and Architecture II: Portraiture
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The Representation of Roman Women in Art |
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Week 12 |
Imperial Art and Architecture in the Provinces
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The Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
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Week 13 |
Imperial Art and Architecture from the Flavians to the Severans
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No tutorial |
Major Essay due |
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
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