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A short paper (10 pages) that deals critically with the literature on houses and housing in the Roman world; instructions in class. Below is a beginning reading list of material which you may/should use as a basis for your paper. Combine this material with a specific case study of a house somewhere in the Roman empire and test the various theories about housing by your case study.
Theories about Housing and Domestic Architecture:
1. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Social Structure of the Roman House," Papers of the British School at Rome 56, n.s. 43 (1988) 43–97.
2. Andrew Riggsby, "'Public' and 'Private' in Roman culture: the case of the cubiculum," Journal of Roman Archaeology 10 (1997) 36–56.
3. Ray Laurence, Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
4. Andrew Wallace Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
5. S. E. Bon, ed., Sequence and Space in Pompeii (Oxford: Oxbow, 1997).
6. C. C. Haselgrove, "Social and symbolic order in the origins and layout of Roman villas in northern Gaul," in J. Metzler et al., eds., Integration in the Early Roman West (Luxembourg: Dossiers d'Archéologie du Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, 1995=# 4) 65-75.
7. R. Rippengal, "Villas as a key to social structure?" Some comments on recent approaches to the Romano-British villa and some suggestions toward an alternative, in E. Scott, ed., Theoretical Roman Archaeology: first conference proceedings (Avebury, 1993) 79–101.
8. J. T. Smith, "Villas as a key to social structure, in M. Todd" ed., Studies in the Romano-British Villa (Leicester: University of Leicester Press, 1978) 149–85.
9. J. Rich and A. Wallace-Hadrill, eds., City and Country in the Ancient World (London, 1991).
10. Daphne Spain, Gendered Spaces (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
11. S. Ellis, "Theories of circulation in Roman houses, in Theoretical Roman Archaeology and Architecture," ed. Alan Leslie (Third Conference Proceedings TRAC) (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999) 75–98.
12. Mark Grahame, "Reading the Roman house: the social interpretation of spatial order, in Theoretical Roman Archaeology and Architecture," ed. Alan Leslie (Third Conference Proceedings TRAC) (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999) 48–74.
General Books on Domestic Architecture in the Roman World:
1. Simon Ellis, Roman Housing (London: Duckworth, 1999).
2. J. Clarke, The Houses of Roman Italy 100 bc-ad 250 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
3. J. P. Adam, Roman Building (London: Routledge, 1999).
4. I. M. Barton, Roman Domestic Building (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1996).
5. Ray Laurence and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, eds., Domestic Space in the Roman World (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1997=JRA suppl.).
6. J. T. Smith, Roman Villas (London: Routledge, 1997).
7. D. E Johnston, Roman Villas (Aylesbury: Shire, 1983).
8. Alexander G. McKay, Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1988).
9. J. Percival, The Roman Villa (London: Batsford, 1976).
10. E. MacDougall, ed., Ancient Roman Villa Gardens (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987).
11. W. Slater, ed., Dining in a Classical Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991).
Pompeii:
1. L. Richardson, Jr., Pompeii: an architectural history (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997).
2. J. Franklin, Pompeii: The Casa del Marinaio and its History (Rome: LâErma di Bretschneider, 1990).
3. R. Ling, The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
4. L. Richardson, Jr., Pompeii, the Casa dei Dioscuri and its Painters (Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1955=Memoires of the American Academy in Rome 23).
5. W. Jashemski, The Gardens of Pompeii (New Rochelle: Caratzas, 1979–94).
6. A. Laidlaw, The First Style in Pompeii (Rome: G. Bretschneider, 1985),
7. C Parslow, Rediscovering Antiquity (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
8. Paul Zanker, Pompeii (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
9. Matteo della Corte, Pompeii: The New Excavations (Pompeii: Longo, 1944).
10. John D'Arms, Romans on the bay of Naples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970).
11. P. Allison, "The relationship between wall-decoration and room-type in Pompeian houses: a case study of the Casa della Caccia Antica, Journal of Roman Archaeology 5" (1992) 235–49.
12. Bettina Bergmann, "The Roman House as Memory Theater: The House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii," Art Bulletin 76.2 (1994) 225–56.
Regional Studies:
1. Yvon Thébert, "Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa," in A History of Private Life, ed. P. Veyne (Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987) 312–409.
2. E. W. Black, The Roman Villas of South-east England (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1987).
3. Greg Woolf, Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
4. S. MacReady and F. H. Thompson, eds., Roman Architecture in the Greek World (London, 1987).
5. T. F. C. Blagg, "First-century Roman houses in Britain and Gaul," in T.F.C. Blagg and M. Millett, eds., The Early Roman Empire in the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) 194-209.
6. K. Branigan and D. M. Miles, eds., The Economies of Romano-British Villas (Sheffield: University of Sheffield Press, 1988).
7. E. Fentress, ed., Romanization and the City (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Studies, 2000)=JRA suppl. 38.
8. J. Packer, The Insulae of Imperial Ostia (Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1971=MAAR 31).
9. R. Meiggs, Roman Ostia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973).
10. G. Hermansen, Ostia: Aspects of City Life (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1981).
11. A. L. F. Rivett, ed., The Roman Villa in Britain (London: Routledge, 1969).
12. E. Scott, "Romano-British Villas and the Social Constructon of Space, in The Social Archaeology of Houses," ed. R. Samson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990) 149-72.
13. Malcolm Todd, ed., Studies in the Romano-British Villa (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978).
You'll find much much more if you consult local archaeological journals in the region you work on; if you read languages other than English, you'll be able to work on Italian, French, German, Spanish, North African, Turkish, Greek, etc. etc. materials.
THIS PAPER IS DUE APRIL 19. 30% of grade.
2. EXAMINATIONS
Midterm (MARCH 8 ) 30% of grade
Final examination (MAY ?) 30% of grade.
3. PARTICIPATION in class discussions and attendance at special events TBA. 10% of grade.
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