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1. Introduction

 

Required Reading:

(*) Alcock, S., ¡®Archaeologies of Memory,¡¯ in Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memories (Cambridge, 2002), 1-35 (34 Pages).

(*) Kousser, R., ¡®Monument and Memory in Ancient Greece and Rome: A Comparative Perspective,¡¯ in K. Galinksy and K. Lapatin (eds.), Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire (Los Angeles, 2015), 33-48 (15 Pages).

(€) Price, S. ¡®Memory and Ancient Greece,¡¯ in B. Dignas and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (Oxford, 2012), 15-36 (21 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 70

 

Suggested reading:

(€) Chaniotis, A. ¡®Memory, Commemoration & Identity in an Ancient City: The Case of Aphrodisias,¡¯ Daedalus 145.2 (2016), 88-100.

(€) Goodman, M. ¡®Memories and its Uses in Judaism and Christianity in the Early Roman Empire: The Portrayal of Abraham,¡¯ in B. Dignas and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (Oxford, 2002), 69-82.

Ma, J., ¡®City as Memory", in B. Graziosi, P. Vasunia, and G. Boys-Stones (eds), Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Culture (Oxford, 2009), 248-59.

Mortensen, E., Poulson, B., Cityscapes and Monuments of Western Asia Minor: Memories and Identities (Oxford, 2017).

Shaya, J., ¡®The Public Life of Monuments. The Summi Viri of the Forum of Augustus,¡¯ American Journal of Archaeology 117.1 (2013), 83-110.

 

2. Commemorating Warfare and Victory in Antiquity

 

Required Reading:

(A) Low, P., ¡®The monuments to the war dead in Classical Athens: form, contexts, meanings¡¯, in G. Oliver and P. J. Rhodes (eds.), Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials: Ancient and Modern (Oxford, 2012), 13-38 (25 pages).

(€) H?lscher, T., ¡®Images of War in Greece and Rome: Between Military Practice, Public Memory, and Cultural Symbolism¡¯, Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003), 1-17 (16 Pages).

(A)  Cooley, A., ¡®Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World¡¯, in G. Oliver and P. J. Rhodes (eds.), Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials: Ancient and Modern (Oxford, 2012), 61-86 (25 Pages).

(A) Chaniotis, A., ¡®The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion¡¯, in G. Oliver and P. J. Rhodes (eds.), Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials: Ancient and Modern (Oxford, 2012), 41-62 (21 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 87

 

Suggested Reading:

(€) De Souza, P., ¡®War, Slavery, and Empire in Roman Imperial Iconography¡¯, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 54.1 (2011), 31-62.

Dillon, S., ¡®Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the Visual language of Roman Victory¡¯, in S. Dillon and K. Welch (eds.), Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2006), 244-271.

Ferris, I. M. ¡®The Enemy Without, The Enemy Within: More Thoughts on Images of Barbarians in Greek and Roman Art¡¯, in K. Meadows, C. Lemke, and J. Heron (eds.), TRAC 96: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, (Oxford, 1997), 22-28.

Hiller, S., ¡®Scenes of warfare and combat in the arts of the Aegean late Bronze Age,¡¯ R. Laffineur (eds.), Polemos. Le contexte guerrier en eg¨¦e ¨¤ l'age du bronze (Li¨¨ge, 1999), 319-330.

(€) Hope, V. M., ¡®Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori¡¯: the practical and symbolic treatment of the Roman war dead¡¯, Mortality 23.1 (2018), 35-49.

Lusnia, S., ¡®Battle Imagery and Politics on the Severan Arch in the Roman Forum¡¯, in S. Dillon and K. Welch (eds.), Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2006), 272-299.

(€) Shear, J. L., ¡®Cultural Change, Space and the Politics of Commemoration in Athens¡¯, in R. Osborne (ed.), Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy and Politics 430 BC-380 BC (Cambridge 2007), 91-115 (24 Pages).

Silberberg-Peirce, S., ¡®The Many Faces of the Pax Augusta: Images of War and Peace in Rome and Gallia Narbonensis.¡± Art History 9.3 (1986), 306-324 (18 Pages).

Winter, I., ¡®After the Battle is Over: The Stele of the Vultures and the Beginning of Historical Narrative in the Art of the Ancient Near East¡¯, in H. L. Kessler and M. S. Simpson (eds.), Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Washington D.C., 1985), 11-32.

 

3. Funerary Commemoration in the Roman World

 

Required Reading:

(€) Hope, V. M., ¡®Constructing Roman identity: funerary monuments and social structure in the Roman world,¡¯ Mortality 2.2 (1997), 103-121 (Pages 18).

(*) Jones, R. ¡®Burial Customs of Rome and the Provinces,¡¯ in J. Wacher (ed.), The Roman World II (London, 1987), 812-844 (Pages 32).

(€) Huskinson, J., ¡®Constructing Childhood on Roman Funerary Memorials,¡¯ Hesperia Supplements 41 (2007), 323-338 (Pages 15).

(€) Carroll, M., ¡®Roman funerary commemoration and ritual as expressions of identity: Case studies from the empire¡¯s frontiers,¡¯ in L. Nilsson Stutz and S. Tarlow (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial, edited by (Oxford, 2013), 559-579 (20 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 85.

 

Suggested Reading:

Borbonus, D., Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 2014).

Brandt, J. R., M. Prusac, and H. Ingvaldsen (eds.), Death and Changing Rituals: Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices (Oxford, 2014).

(€) D¡¯Ambra, E., ¡®Racing with Death. Circus Sarcophagi and the Commemoration of Children in Roman Italy,¡¯ Hesperia Supplements 41 (2007), 339-351.

(€) De Jong, L., ¡®Performing Death in Tyre: The Life and Afterlife of a Roman Cemetery in the Province of Syria,¡¯ American Journal of Archaeology 114 (2010), 597-630.

Hope, V., ¡®Trophies and Tombstones: Commemorating the Roman Soldier,¡¯ World Archaeology 35.1 (2003), 79-97.

Hoskins Walbank, M. E., ¡®Remaining Roman in Death at Corinth? A Debate with K. W. Slane,¡¯ Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014), 403-416.

(€) Hoskins Walbank, M. and M.B. Walbank ¡®A Roman Corinthian Family Tomb and its Afterlife,¡¯ Hesperia 84.1 (2015), 149-206.

Morris, I. Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, 1992).

Pearce, J. 2000. ¡®Burial, Society and Context in the Provincial Roman World,¡¯ in J. Pearce, Martin Millet, and M. Struck (eds.), Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World (Oxford, 2000), 1-12.

Pearce, J., ¡®Marking the Dead: Tombs and Topography in the Roman Provinces,¡¯ in M. Carroll and J. Rempel (eds.), Living Through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World, (Oxford, 2011), 134-158.

 

4. City States and Religious Commemoration: Competition and Community

 

Required Reading:

(*) Neer, R., ¡®Framing the Gift: The Siphnian Treasury at Delphi and the Politics of Public Art, in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds.), The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact Conflict Collaboration (Cambridge, 2003), 129-152 (23 Pages).

(*) Scott, M. ¡®Dedicating at Olympia and Delphi, in Delphi and Olympia: the Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical periods (Cambridge, 2010), 29-74 (46 Pages).

(€) Van Andrniga, W., ¡®Statues in the Temples of Pompeii: Combinations of Gods, Local definitions of Cults, and the Memory of a City,¡¯ in B. Dignas and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (Oxford, 2012), 83-115 (32 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 101

 

Suggested reading:

Dirven, L., ¡®Religious competition and the decoration of sanctuaries. The case of Dura Europos,¡¯ Eastern Christian Art 1 (2004), 1-20.

Kurke, Leslie. "Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority," in in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds.), The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact Conflict, Collaboration (Cambridge, 2003), 77-100.

Nicholson, N., ¡®Aristocratic Victory Memorials and the Absent Charioteer," in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds.), The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact Conflict, Collaboration (Cambridge, 2003), 101-128.

 

5. Monumentality in Architecture

 

Required Reading:

(*) Osborne, J. F., ¡®Monuments and Monumentality¡¯, in J. F. Osborne (ed.) Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record (New York, 2014), 1-19 (18 Pages).

(€) Trigger, B. G., ¡®Monumental Architecture: A Thermodynamic Explanation of Symbolic Behaviour¡¯, World Archaeology 22.2 (1990): 119-132 (13 Pages).

(A) Fischer-Hansen, T., ¡®Monumental Political Architecture in Archaic and Classical Greek Poleis: Evidence and Historical Significance¡¯, in D. Whitehead (ed.), From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius: Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis. Historia Einzelschrift, 87 (Stuttgart, 1994), 23-90 (67 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 98.

 

Suggested Reading:

(€) DeLaine, J., 'The Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus and Roman attitudes to exceptional construction,' Papers of the British School at Rome 70 (2002), 205-230.

Meyers, G. E. ¡®Introduction: The Experience of Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture¡¯, in M. L. Thomas and G. E. Meyers (eds.), Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture. Ideology and Innovation, (Austin, 2012), 1-20.

Miller, S. G., ¡®Architecture as Evidence for the Identity of the Early Polis¡¯, in M. H. Hansen (ed.), Sources for the Ancient Greek City-State (Copehagen, 1995), 201-244.

Pollitt, J. J., Art in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge, 1986), 230-242.

Revell, L. ¡®Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in Roman Britain,¡¯ in J. Sofaer (ed.), Material Identities (Oxford, 2007), 121-151.

Revell, L. ¡®Constructing Romanitas: Roman Public Architecture and the Archaeology of Practice,¡¯ in P. Baker (ed.), TRAC 98: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, edited by Patricia Baker (Oxford, 1999), 52¨C58.

Thomas, E., ¡®The Monumentality of Text¡¯, in J. F. Osborne (ed.) Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record (New York, 2014), 57-82.

 

6. Public Statue Honours

 

Require Reading:

(*) Smith, R. R. R., ¡®Statues¡¯ in R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, S. R. Huebner (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

(*) Oliver, G. J. ¡®Space and the Visualization of Power in the Greek Polis: The Award of Portrait Statues in Decrees from Athens,¡¯ in R. von den Hoff and P. Schultz (eds.), Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context (Cambridge, 2007), 181-204 (23 Pages).

(€) Ma. J., ¡®Hellenistic Honorific Statues and their Inscriptions¡¯, in Z. Newby and R. E. Newby-Leader (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2007), 203-220 (17 Pages).

(*) Von den Hoff, R., ¡®Tradition and Innovation: Portraits and Dedications on the Early Hellenistic Akropolis¡¯, in O. Palagia and S. V. Tracy (eds.), The Macedonians in Athens (Oxford, 2003), 173-185 (12 Pages).

 

Total Pages: 52

 

Suggested Reading:

Keesling, C. ¡®Early Hellenistic Portrait Statues on the Athenian Acropolis,¡¯ in R. von den Hoff and P. Schultz (eds.), Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context (Cambridge, 2007), 141-160.

H?jte, J. M., ¡®Cultural Interchange? The Case of the Honorary Statues in Greece', in E. Ostenfeld (ed.), Greek Romans and Roman Greeks: Studies in Cultural Interaction (Aarhus, 2007), 55¨C63.

Ma, J., ¡®Private Statues, Public Spaces¡¯, in J. Greisbach (ed.), Polis und Portr?t ¨C Standbilder als Medien ?ffentlicher Repr?sentation im hellenistischen. Osten (Wiesbaden, 2014), 87-98.

Shear, J. L. 2007. ¡®Reusing statues, rewriting inscriptions and bestowing honours in Roman Athens¡¯, in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Edited by (Cambridge, 2007), 221-246.

Smith, R. R. R., 'Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit', in S. Hornblower, C. Morgan (eds), Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2007), 83-139.

Tr¨¹mper, M., ¡®The Honorific Practice of the ¡°Agora of the Italians¡± in Delos¡¯, in: J. Griesbach (ed.), Polis und Portr?t. Standbilder als Medien ?ffentlicher Repr?sentation im hellenistischen Osten (Wiesbaden, 2014) 69-85.

(€) Welsh, M. K., ¡®Honorary Statues in Ancient Greece¡¯, Annual of the British School at Athens 11 (1904-5), 32-49.

 

 

 

Seminars

 

1. The Act of Forgetting

 

Why was the act of erasing memory so powerful in Antiquity?

 

Required reading:

(€) Connerton, P., ¡®Cultural Memory,¡¯ in C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. K¨¹chler, M. Rowlands and P. Spyer (eds.), Handbook of Material Culture (London, 2006), 315-324.

(€) Eckardt, H. ¡®Remembering and Forgetting in the Roman Provinces,¡¯ in B. Croxford, H. Eckardt, J. Meade, and J. Weekes (eds.), TRAC 2003: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Leicester 2003 (Oxford, 2004), 36-50.

(*) Flower, H. I., The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture (Chapel Hill, 2006), 17-41 (Chapter II: Did the Greeks Have Memory Sanctions?).

(€) Flower, H., ¡®Rethinking ¡®Damnatio Memoriae¡¯: The Case of Cn. Calpurnius Piso Pater in AD 20, Classical Antiquity 17.2 (1988), 155-187.

 

Suggested reading:

(€) Harman?ah, O., ¡®ISIS, Heritage, and the Spectacles of Destruction in the Global Media,¡¯ Near Eastern Archaeology 78.3 (2015), 170-177.

Kinney, D., ¡®¡®Spolia. Damnatio¡¯ and ¡®Renovatio Memoriae¡¯,¡¯ Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 42 (2007), 117-148.

Levene, D. S., ¡®¡®You Shall Blot Out the Memory of Amalek¡¯: Roman Historians on Remembering to Forget,¡¯ in B. Dignas and R.R.R. Smith (eds.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (Oxford, 2012), 217-240.

Varner, E., ¡®Portraits, Plots, and Politics: ¡®Damnatio memoriae¡¯ and the Images of Imperial Women,¡¯ Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 46 (2001), 41-93.

 

2. Interpreting Funerary Assemblages

 

How do funerary assemblages provide evidence for the identities of the people buried there?

 

Required reading:

(*) Cool, H.E.M., Baxter, M. J., ¡®Cemeteries and significance tests¡¯, Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005), 397-404.

(€) Pitts, M., Griffin, R., ¡®Exploring Health and Social Well-Being in Late Roman Britain: An Intercemetery Approach,¡¯ American Journal of Archaeology 116.2 (2012): 253-276.

(€) Rosten, J., ¡®Identities in Life and Death in Roman Britain: The Case of Baldock,¡¯ in B. Croxford, R. Roth and N. White (eds.), TRAC 2006: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (Oxford, 2007), 172-182.

(€) Swift, E., ¡®Identifying Migrant Communities: A Contextual Analysis of Grave Assemblages from Continental Late Roman Cemeteries,¡¯ Britannia 41 (2010), 237-282.

(*) Pearce, J., ¡®A ¡®Civilized¡¯ Death? The interpretation of Provincial Roman Grave Goods Assemblages, in J. Rasmus Brandt, M. Prusac, and H. Ingvaldsen (eds.), Death and Changing Rituals: Function and Meaning in Ancient funerary practices (Oxford, 2014), 223-248.

 

Suggested reading:

Cool. H., Funerary Context,¡¯ in L. Allason-Jones (ed.), Artefacts in Roman Britain: Their Purpose and Use (Cambridge, 2011).

Heeren, S. ¡®Brooches and Burials : Variability in Expressions of Identity in Cemeteries of the Batavian Civitas,¡¯ Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014), 443-455.

Pearce, J., ¡®Burial, identity and migration in the Roman world,¡¯ in H. Eckardt (ed.), Roman Diasporas. Archaeological Approaches to Mobility and Diversity in the Roman Empire, edited by Hella Eckardt (Portsmouth, R. I., 2010), 79-98.

 

3. Late Antique Statue Honours

 

How different are Late Antique Statue dedications?

 

Required reading:

(€) Brown, A. R., ¡®Last Men Standing: Chlamydatus Portraits and Public Life in Late Antique Corinth¡¯, Hesperia 81 (2012), 141-176.

(*) Coates-Stephen, R., ¡®The Reuse of Ancient Statuary in Late Antique Rome and the End of the Statue Habit,¡¯ in F.A. Bauer, C. Witschel (eds.), Statuen in der Sp?tantike, (Wiesbaden, 2007), 171-188.

(*) Smith, R. R. R., ¡®Statue practice in the late Roman empire: numbers, costumes, and style¡¯, in R. R. R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins (eds.), The Last Statues of Antiquity (Oxford, 2016), 1-27.

(€) Smith, R. R. R., ¡®Cultural choice and political identity in honorific portrait statues in the Greek East in the second century AD', Journal of Roman Studies 98 (1998), 56-93.

 

Suggested reading:

(€) Smith, R. R. R., 'Roman portraits: honours, empresses, and late emperors', Journal of Roman Studies 75 (1985), 209?221.

(€) Smith, R. R. R., ¡®Late antique portraits in a public context: Honorific statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, AD 300-600', Journal of Roman Studies 99 (1999), 155-189.

Smith, R. R. R. ¡®Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600: Local context and historical meaning', in F.A. Bauer, C. Witschel (eds.), Statuen in der Sp?tantike, (Wiesbaden, 2007), 203-235.

Ward-Perkins, B., ¡®Statues at the end of antiquity: the evidence of the inscribed bases¡¯, in in R. R. R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins (eds.), The Last Statues of Antiquity (Oxford, 2016), 28-42).

 

 

 

 

 

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