CLASSICAL CIVILISATION
– FURTHER READING
AS Unit CC6 (F386) City Life in Roman
Italy
By Mr G. de la Bédoyère MA FSA
FHA FRNS for KSHS
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Sources for
Classical Civilisation A-Level
CC6
Powerpoints used in class (only available to
students at KSHS with a password available in class)
CC6
Handouts distributed in class (only available to students at KSHS with a
password available in class)
STOP PRESS: this page has now been
simplified as it was getting unwieldy. There are now:
THREE PAGES DEDICATED TO THE THREE
MAIN SITES:
1. Pompeii
Prescribed Material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others
2. Ostia
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others (see also imagines
clipeatae from the Baths of Mithras)
3. Herculaneum
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board
KSHS
Class Civ at Youtube:
films of almost all the prescribed buildings for CC6 and a whole lot more
There is also a resource booklet
produced by OCR at OCR CC6
Resource booklet
Websites have been carefully chosen that have a lot
of basic information and details and/or pictures and plans about all prescribed
course material. Take care though – not all websites are necessarily 100%
reliable. Don’t be overwhelmed – more options are listed here than you will
ever need to chase up. But the point is it’s here and it’s available so it’s up
to you to make the most of it:
Unit CC6 (F386) City Life in Roman
Italy – the main books
! indicates that there is a copy in KSHS Library
(reference only for the moment). * indicates a book that may be particularly useful. SOME of these books are available ONLINE – search
on Google Books
! * de la
Bédoyère, G., Cities of Roman Italy, Bristol Classical Press, London
2010 – specifically written for the CC6 Course, and endorsed by OCR’s chief
examiner for CC6, this book is available from February 2010 on: you can
pre-order from Amazon here: Cities
of Roman Italy or from Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press here
! *
* Clarke, J. R. The
houses of Roman Italy 100 BC – AD 250: Ritual, Space and Decoration 1991,
University of California Press. Limited Preview ONLINE at Google Books
! * Cooley, A.E., and Cooley, M.G.L.,
* Ling, R.,
*Thorpe M., Roman
Architecture, Bristol Classical Press 1995 (relevant pages available on http://www.kshs.lincs.sch.uk/ portal)
! * Wallace-Hadrill, A., Houses and Society in
Other background reading pages:
Classical
Civilisation Reading Page
General weblinks on Pompeii and Roman
towns
THE COURSE COVERS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
1. The
historical context of the cities: development, decline, destruction, discovery
and preservation
2. Important
people and institutions of the cities of
3. The social
structure of the cities
4. Expression
of social identity in the cities through buildings, inscriptions, houses,
decoration and tombs
5. Use of
domestic space and use of decoration to define this
6. Changing
use of domestic space over time
Pompeii
Prescribed Material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others
Ostia
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others
Herculaneum
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board
Roman Social Classes and
Public Display
Roman law and
society – with an image of an amphitheatre showing
how the audience was divided by status, and references to the Roman freedmen
(ex slaves) and their legal status.
Patrons, clients, slaves
and freedmen
Petronius and the Satyricon –
Petronius’ satirical account of Trimalchio,
the wealthy, pretentious freedman is a classic piece of Roman literature with a
great deal of contemporary comment on Roman society. Passages form part of the
prescribed material (see Sources). You
can download the whole text here,
read Wikipedia
on the Satyricon and consult a dedicated ancient
history with Petronius links. This page describes the events at Trimalchio's dinner
See also CC6 HO7 and HO8 (KSHS
academic portal)
Literary texts and inscriptions: see Sources
AS: CC1
Archaeology: Mycenae and the Classical
World
A2: CC7 Roman
Britain: life in the outpost of the Empire
A2: CC10 Virgil and
the world of the hero
Other links
Roman Names – the structure
of Roman names, and what they tell us
London
Association of Classical Teachers
Back to the KSHS
Class Civ Home Page
KSHS
Class Civ at Youtube:
films of almost all the prescribed buildings for CC6 and a whole lot more
Pompeii
Prescribed Material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others
Ostia
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board plus some
others
Herculaneum
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board
CC6
Powerpoints used in class (only available to
students at KSHS with a password available in class)
CC6
Handouts distributed in class (only available to students at KSHS with a
password available in class)
OCR’s reading list
Allison, P. ‘Room use in Pompeian houses’ in Descoeudres,
J. (ed.) Pompeii Revisited: The Life
and Death of a Roman Town 1994, Meditarch (pages 82-89). ISBN 0646206591
Allison, P. Pompeian Households. An Analysis of the Material Culture (Monograph
42, Cotsen
Allison, P. (ed.) The Archaeology of
Household Activities 1999, Routledge. ISBN
0415205972
Allison, P. Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion 2001
http://www.stoa.org/pro!ects/ph/home
Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S. Religions of
0521456460
Bomgardner, D. The
Story of the Roman Amphitheatre 2000, Routledge.
ISBN 0415301858
Bon, S. E. and !ones, R. (eds.) Sequence and
space in
1997,
Bonefas, S. and McManus, B.
F. Vroma: A Virtual Community for Teaching
and Learning
Classics http://www.vroma.org
Butterworth, A. and Laurence, R. Pompeii: The Living City 2005, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
ISBN 0297645609
Cambridge Schools Classics Pro!ect,
University Press. ISBN 0521635438. (The English sections on Pompeii
provide a good
introduction).
Clarke, J. R. The houses of Roman Italy 100 BC – AD 250: Ritual,
Space and Decoration 1991,
Clements, P. Herculaneum: Destruction and Rediscovery http://www.romanherculaneum.com
Connolly, P. Pompeii 1990, Oxford University Press. ISBN
0199171580
Cooley, A. E. Pompeii 2003, Duckworth. ISBN 0715631616
*Cooley, A. E. and Cooley, M. G. L. Pompeii: A Sourcebook 2004, Routledge. ISBN
0415262127
Curtis, R. I. ‘A Personalized Floor Mosaic from
88.4, October 1984, (pages 557-566). !STOR
Deiss, J. Herculaneum:
0892361646
Fox, W. Pompeii Interactive 2000, Canis
Education www.pompeii.co.uk
Gazda, E. (ed.) Roman Art
in the Private Sphere: New Perspectives on the Architecture and
Décor of the domus, Villa
and Insula 1994,
28 GCE Classics
Hermansen, G. Ostia: aspects of Roman city life 1981,
University of Alberta Press. ISBN
0888640722
Internet Group Ostia, Ostia:
Harbour-City of Ancient Rome 1996-2007 http://www.ostiaantica.
org
Laurence, R. Roman Pompeii, Space and Society Routledge,
1994. ISBN 0415391253
Laurence, R. and Wallace-Hadrill, A. F. (eds.)
'Domestic Space in the Roman World:
and Beyond' in !ournal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 22, 1997,
1887829229
Pompeii in Pictures http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/index.htm
Ling, R. Pompeii: history, life & afterlife 2005, Tempus. ISBN 0752414593
Morgan, J. Pompeii 2006, !-PROGS www.!-progs.com
Morgan, J. Pompeii Photo CD 2006, !-PROGS
www.!-progs.com
Morgan, J. Romana Photo CD 2003, !-PROGS www.!-progs.com
Morgan, J. Rome the Eternal City 2 2004, !-PROGS
www.!-progs.com
Morgan, J. Rome Photo CD 2 2005, !-PROGS
www.!-progs.com
Shelton, J. A. As the Roman Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History
1988,
University Press. ISBN 0195089731
Sear, F. Roman Architecture 1982, Routledge.
ISBN 0801492459
Soprintendenza Archeologia di Pompeii, Home
Page (official site)
http://www.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf?OpenDatabase
Wallace-Hadrill, A. F, Houses and Society
in Pompeii and Herculaneum 1994,
University Press. ISBN 0691029091
Ward Perkins, !. B. Roman Imperial
Architecture 1992, Yale University Press. ISBN
0300052928
Zanker, P.
Pompeii: Public and Private Life 1998, Harvard University Press. ISBN
0674689674