Roman Art and Archaeology

1 Assignment

• Quiz One: The Early Romans and Their Ancestors

6 Videos

• 1. Italy before Rome
• 2. Rome before Rome
• 3. The Sepulcretum
• 4. The People of Ancient Italy
• 5. Guest Lecture: Dr. Emma Blake on Bronze Age Italians
• 6. Early Iron Age Chronology

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• Quiz Two: The Etruscans, Part I

10 Videos

• 1. The Orientalizing Period
• 2. The Etruscans
• 3. Etruscan Origins I
• 4. Etruscan Origins II
• 5. Etruscan Origins III
• 6. Etruscan Society
• 7. Etruscan Artisans
• 8. Tumuli at Cerveteri
• 9. Tombs at Tarquinia
• 10. Life and Death

1 Assignment

• Quiz Three: The Etruscans, Part II

1 Peer Review

• Essay Question One

13 Videos

• 1. Greek Art in Etruria
• 2. The Francois Vase
• 3. Greek Myth in Etruria I
• 4. Greek Myth in Etruria II
• 5. Etruscan Belief
• 6. Tomb of the Infernal Chariot
• 7. The Necropolis at Orvieto I
• 8. The Necropolis at Orvieto II
• 9. Guest Lecture: Dr. Alba Frascarelli on Velzna
• 10. Populonia I
• 11. Populonia II
• 12. The Etruscans in Rome
• 13. The Early Roman Forum

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• Quiz Four: The Early Republic

9 Videos

• 1. The Roman Republic
• 2. Forum Romanum I
• 3. Forum Romanum II
• 4. Forum Romanum III
• 5. Ancient Architectural Orders
• 6. The Doric Order
• 7. The Ionic and Tuscan Orders
• 8. The Capitoline Hill
• 9. The Beginning of Rome's Expansion

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• Quiz Five: The Middle Republic

5 Videos

• 1. Early Roman Expansion
• 2. Underwater Archaeology
• 3. Republican Art
• 4. Carthage
• 5. "Carthage: A Mosaic of Ancient Tunisia"

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• Quiz Six: The Civil Wars

1 Peer Review

• Essay Question Two

9 Videos

• 1. Rome's Revolutionary Century
• 2. The Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste
• 3. The Roman Domus and Theatre
• 4. The Theater of Pompey Today
• 5. Roman Portraiture
• 6. Greek Art in Rome
• 7. Roman Lamps I
• 8. Roman Lamps II
• 9. Roman Glass

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• Quiz Seven: The Age of Augustus

5 Videos

• 1. Augustan Art
• 2. "Forgotten Lives: The Ancient City of Troy"
• 3. Guest Lecture: Dr. David Gilman Romano's Digital Map of Augustan Rome
• 4. Guest Lecture: Dr. Marylin Skinner on Roman Gender and Sexuality
• 5. The Legacy of Augustus

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• Quiz Eight: The Julio-Claudian Emperors

5 Videos

• 1. Art After Augustus: Tiberius and the Julio-Claudians
• 2. Roman Pottery
• 3. The Julio-Claudians after Tiberius: Caligula, Claudius, and Nero
• 4. Guest Lecture: Dr. Phillip Waddell on Roman Historiography and Nero
• 5. Nero's Domus Aurea

2 Readings

• Peter Ustinov sings as Nero
• Dr. Soren's Work at Kourion (Coming Soon!)

1 Assignment

• Quiz Nine: The Flavian Emperors

1 Peer Review

• Essay Question Three

9 Videos

• 1. The Flavian Emperors: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian
• 2. The Arch of Titus
• 3. The Eruption of Vesuvius (79 CE)
• 4. Pompeii
• 5. The Pompeian House
• 6. Pompeii in 3D
• 7. The Alexander Mosaic I
• 8. The Alexander Mosaic II
• 9. The End of the Flavians

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• Quiz Ten: Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian

6 Videos

• 1. Trajan
• 2. The Imperial Roman Forum
• 3. Trajan's Forum
• 4. Hadrian
• 5. The Pantheon
• 6. Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

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• Quiz Eleven: The Antonine and Severan Emperors

1 Peer Review

• Essay Question Four

6 Videos

• 1. Antoninus Pius
• 2. The Roman Sarcaphogus
• 3. The Roman Domus in the 2nd Century CE
• 4. Marcus Aurelius and the Beginnings of Crisis I
• 5. Marcus Aurelius and the Beginnings of Crisis II
• 6. The Severans

2 Readings

• Hollywood's "Gladiator"
• Richard Harris plays Marcus Aurelius

1 Assignment

• Quiz Twelve: The Beginning of the End

6 Videos

• 1. The Years of Crisis
• 2. The Baths of Caracalla
• 3. The "Soldier Emperors"
• 4. Ostia, The Port of Rome
• 5. Diocletian
• 6. Roman Sculpture in the 3rd century CE

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• Quiz Thirteen: Rome in Late Antiqutity

1 Peer Review

• Essay Question Five

15 Videos

• 1. Constantine and the Rise of Christianity I
• 2. Constantine and the Rise of Christianity II
• 3. The Arch of Constantine
• 4. Kourion and Seismic Archaeology I
• 5. Kourion and Seismic Archaeology II
• 6. Lugnano and the Fall of Rome I
• 7. Lugnano and the Fall of Rome II
• 8. The Silver Amphora of Baratti I
• 9. The Silver Amphora of Baratti II
• 10. 5th and 6th Century Disruptions
• 11. Climate Change and the Fall of Rome
• 12. Guest Lecture: Dr. Charlotte Pearson on Dendrochronology
• 13. Guest Lecture: Cynthia Hart on Digitally Reconstructing Antiquity
• 14. A Patchwork of Settlements
• 15. The Column of Phocas: The Last Roman Monument

2 Videos

• 1. From Dr. Soren and Lana, "Farewell!"
• 2. "Malaria and the Fall of Rome"