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Rome's first Emperor, Gaius Octavian Augustus, ruled an empire stretching from Spain to Syria, from Britain to Egypt. Students will explore the social, artistic, and political successes and failures of this "golden age" of Rome's past. The course will assess a broad range of topics -- such as the creation of empire, art as propaganda, and the role of women -- within the context of Augustan ideology and history.
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Pompeii is a dead city. Or is it? This course will explore what we can learn from Pompeii, and the neighboring communities also destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. We will look at art, architecture (public and domestic), and all the many remains of "daily life" so uniquely preserved in these buried, but not forgotten, places.
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Interested students must register for CLAS 1120L S01.
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This course investigates ancient cities in the comparative context of several archaeological regions. Considering contemporary approaches to urban space, we will explore urbanism in the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Aegean with comparative examples from pre-hispanic Mexico and China. We will explore the spatial and socio-economic structuring of cities in relation to festivals, state spectacles, monumental building projects, and other commemorative practices, investigating layered urban topographies saturated with collective pasts. Enrollment limited to 15.
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This course will examine critically the collection of ancient objects. Through functional, historical, material and aesthetic lenses an analysis of the relationships between the cultural contexts of objects will be examined. Case studies, guest lectures and site visits (virtual and real) will be used to demonstrate evolving theory, practice, law and ethical implications of collecting archaeological objects.
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Focuses on the Bronze Age background to the emergence of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Italy in the Iron Age. Emphasizes the results of recent excavations, the problems of contact between the Aegean and Tyrrhenian areas in the Bronze Age, Greek colonization, and the urban development of the Etruscan/Latian region.
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Pompeii is a dead city. Or is it? This course will explore what we can learn from Pompeii, and the neighboring communities also destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. We will look at art, architecture (public and domestic), and all the many remains of 'daily life' so uniquely preserved in these buried, but not forgotten, places.
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The archeology, art, and architecture of Iberia during the Roman presence from the Punic Wars to the beginning of the Arab conquest. The artifacts and monuments discussed will not only represent artistic production from Roman administrative expressions, but also a mixture of styles between indigenous art (such as Celtic) or expressions of syncretism or other cultural symbioses.
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Study of portraits from the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean and portraits that were inspired by or reacted to the ancient portrait from the 16th to the 20th century. Also investigates the style, iconography, function, physiognomy, and psychology with which one can look at portraits.
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