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
This page is in a continuous process of updating and development
Back to
the Classical Civilisation Main Page
Sources for
Classical Civilisation A-Level
Other background reading pages:
Classical
Civilisation Reading Page
STOP PRESS for Class Civ students at KSHS: if KSHS Academic Portal is down (as
it was on the weekend of 4/5 October 2008) and you cannot access the
handouts/assignments and other notes posted there, please email me on the
address shown on the Home Page with what you need and I will email you back the relevant sheets.
General weblinks on Pompeii and Roman
towns
Pompeii
Prescribed Material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board
Ostia prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by
the exam board
Herculaneum
prescribed material – all the sites prescribed by the exam board
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
J indicates that there is (or will be) a copy in KSHS
Library (reference only for the moment). Some of these books are on order and
will be placed in the library as soon as they arrive. * indicates a book that may be
particularly useful. J in KSHS Library. SOME of these books are available ONLINE – search on Google Books
J * Berry, J., The
Complete Pompeii 2007, Thames and Hudson.
* 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
J * Cooley, A.E., and Cooley, M.G.L.,
* Ling, R., Pompeii:
history, life and afterlife, Tempus 2005
*Thorpe M., Roman
Architecture, Bristol Classical Press 1995 (relevant pages available on http://www.kshs.lincs.sch.uk/ portal)
J * Wallace-Hadrill, A., Houses and Society in
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 Pompeii, Herculaneum and
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 in
Pictures is an invaluable site with maps and images of every building
Home Page of the Soprintendenza of Pompeii
Ad
for an interactive CD of Pompeii
Interactive
videos of Insula 9
Interactive
Dig for Insula VI.1
Current
Archaeology magazine's Visiting Pompeii page
British
School at Rome on Roman towns
Other useful
Pompeii links on Houses and so on:
Typical
Pompeii House Plan and elevation (scroll down)
Pompeii
House Interiors (and other sites)
Lots
of general links on Pompeii
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)
PRESCRIBED
MATERIAL
The
following topics are all those that you need to be familiar with in Unit CC6.
These are links that will help you with most of them. Do be warned though –
some of the links are to Wikipedia pages which
doesn’t mean they’re necessarily 100% reliable, something that applies to all
web pages! I have also added now details of my handouts available to KSHS
students on the academic portal:
POMPEII – prescribed content (each building is one
you NEED to know about)
1. The House
of the Menander (Region I.x.4). Pictures of the
house, interior and its gardens are at Pompeii
in Pictures: Menander. This house has been extensively
restored in recent years. Take a walk round with the Youtube Menander tour. CC6 HO15 (KSHS academic portal)
2. The House
of Octavius Quartio or
"Loreius Tiburtinus'
(Region II.ii.2), with a discussion Wikipedia: House of Loreius Tiburtinus. This house is better known as the House of Octavius Quartio, named after a
ring found in one of the street-front shops. It has an exceptionally fine
garden and a number of important wall paintings, as well as a room dedicated to
the worship of Isis. Walk round it on a rather gloomy February afternoon on the
Youtube Octavius Quartio tour. CC6
HO16 (KSHS academic portal)
3. The House
of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus (Region VII.xvi.15), and especially the
fish-sauce amphora mosaic on that page. You can now read a full description and see a
proper plan at CC6
Scaurus. There is a far better picture of the fish-sauce
amphora mosaic on Wikipedia than the one
illustrated on p. 165 of Cooley and Cooley. There were two men, father and son,
called Aulus Umbricius Scaurus. The father ran the fish-sauce business, which was
highly successful (see Sources). His
son became a Pompeian magistrate but died relatively young and was awarded an
equestrian statue in the Pompeii Forum, the usual 2000 sesterces for his
funeral, and a tomb
outside the Herculaneum Gate, which bears an inscription recording Scaurus the Younger’s honours. CC6 HO21 (KSHS academic portal)
4. The
Building of Eumachia (VII.ix.1) by the Forum is an important example of a
commercial building owned by a woman. More pictures at Pompeii
in Pictures: Eumachia. The Eumachia
Inscriptions help identify the building, and she is represented by her statue. You may now
tour the building on Youtube Eumachia. For more details of the inscriptions
see CC6
reading on this site. W. Moeller’s The
Wool Trade of Ancient Pompeii is useful on Eumachia, and you can read a
preview on Google
Books here. There is a short discussion of Eumachia here. This page links
Eumachia to the world of Pompeian
women. The Tomb
of Eumachia is also important evidence for her status since she was not
awarded a funeral or tomb at public expense (as would be common for someone of
status who had been a benefactor to the town, even a woman), and the burial of
others buried at her tomb in later years such as members of the family of Nigidius Maius. You can tour
her tomb at Youtube Eumachia tomb. Ref: Cooley and Cooley G15–19. CC6 HO11 (KSHS academic portal)
5. The First
Tomb of Munatius Faustus outside the Nocera Gate of
6.
7. The
Temple of Isis (VIII.vii.28) is one of the most important religious
buildings in
8. The
Temple of Jupiter (VII.viii.1) was the main temple overlooking
See also House
of the Tragic Poet tour, the Youtube House of the Faun tour, the Youtube Nigidius Maius tour, the House of the Lyre (Cithara)
Player tour, House of
Venus in a Seashell, the Villa of the Mysteries,
the electoral slogans in
the Via dell' Abbondanza, and a walk round the Forum or even the Brothel. There’s also a
film round the huge so-called Villa of Poppaea
at Oplontis at nearby
OSTIA – Rome’s
ancient port – prescribed content (each building is one you NEED to know about)
A short article
on Ostia's development
(These links mostly take you to pages on the Ostia Antica site which have
plans, descriptions and photos). The clickable general plans of the Regions
allow you to explore other buildings too and I recommend that you do this).
Ostia Antica Main Page (takes you to maps of the Regions and
its buildings)
Clickable map and
reconstructions of Ostia
1. House of the Dioscuri (III.ix.1). Plan, discussion and pictures. You
can take a Dioscuri Youtube Tour here.
This house is one of the Garden
Houses in Region III, Insula ix, which are
regarded as an important group of houses, dating originally to c. AD 120–140 , and are quite different from the older houses found at
2. House of Apuleius (III.ix.1). This house began its life in the
Republican period (i.e. before Augustus), and was rebuilt in the mid-second
century AD. You can take an Apuleius Youtube here. CC6 HO22 (KSHS academic portal)
You
can also explore the House
of the Porch (V.ii.4–5) and take the House of the Porch Youtube tour.
3.
The House of Diana
(I.iii.3–4) is an extremely well-preserved apartment block in the heart of
4.
The Baths of Mithras (I.xvii.2) and its associated Temple of Mithras (mithraeum). You can
take a Youtube
tour of the Baths of Mithras and Youtube
tour of the Mithraeum. CC6 HO27 (KSHS academic portal)
5. Baths of the Forum (I.xii.6). A massive town-centre baths and
exercise complex for the Ostians. You can take a Youtube
tour of the Baths
6. Piazza of the Corporations
(II.vii.4). This major commercial development at Ostia
had business offices arranged around a central piazza opposite the theatre.
Mosaics in the pavement outside the offices stated the trading interests of
each company, for example fish-sauce. CC6
HO17 (KSHS academic portal)
7.
The Great Warehouse (Grandi Horrea) (II.ix.7).
This was a massive warehouse complex in central Ostia.
You can take a Warehouse Youtube tour here and read a general discussion of Ostian warehouses here. CC6 HO29 (KSHS academic portal)
8.
The Barracks of the Firefighters (Caserma dei Vigili) (II.v.1–2). This was
vital to Ostia with all its warehouses packed with
valuable goods. You can take a Youtube
tour of the Barracks here.
9.
The Port of Claudius,
begun in AD 42 to resolve the problem of the silted-up River Tiber estuary. It
was completed in AD 64 and was known as Portus. CC6 HO9 (KSHS academic portal)
10.
The Port of Trajan (AD 98–117) became the commercial centre and
eventually superseded
Pictures
of Ostia here
Inscriptions
of Ostia – photos of monumental inscriptions from
HERCULANEUM –
prescribed content (each building is one you NEED to know about)
1. House in Opus Craticium (Herculaneum Insula
iii.13–15, also known as the Casa Graticio): scroll down the page to find it. The house
was built of opus
craticium. Its importance is that it was built
after the earthquake of AD 62 and replaced an older house. The owners of the
site decided to use a cheap form of building (a timber frame packed with
rubble) that would allow as much living space as possible to be packed into the
small site, presumably to maximise the rent yield. This anticipated the
building of apartment blocks a generation later at
2. House of the Deer/Stags
(Herculaneum Insula iv.21, also known as the Casa dei Cervi). This house’s importance depends on its
remarkable plan which created a visual axis through the garden right down to
the sea. Little emphasis was placed on living accommodation. This picture
(left) shows a digitally restored view through the garden to the
3. The Samnite
House (Herculaneum Insula v.2). One of
4. The Suburban Baths
(also known as the Terme Suburbane).
One of the best-preserved Roman baths in existence. It lies on a terrace below
Good
private website with pictures and plans of Herculaneum
buildings
See
also the Youtube Herculaneum Baths Tour of the baths in Insula VI close to the Basilica.
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
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/projects/ph/home
Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S. Religions of Rome 1998,
Cambridge University Press. ISBN
0521456460
Bomgardner, D. The
Story of the Roman Amphitheatre 2000, Routledge.
ISBN 0415301858
Bon, S. E. and Jones, R. (eds.) Sequence and space in Pompeii (Oxbow
books Monograph 77)
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 Project, Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 1998,
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 Pompeii’ in American
Journal of Archaeology
88.4, October 1984, (pages 557-566). JSTOR
Deiss, J. Herculaneum:
Italy's Buried Treasure 1993, Getty Trust Publications. ISBN
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, University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472083147
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 Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 22, 1997,
Portsmouth RI. ISBN
1887829229
Pompeii in Pictures http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/index.htm
Ling, R. Pompeii: history, life & afterlife 2005, Tempus.
ISBN 0752414593
Morgan, J. Pompeii 2006, J-PROGS www.j-progs.com
Morgan, J. Pompeii Photo CD 2006, J-PROGS www.j-progs.com
Morgan, J. Romana Photo CD 2003,
J-PROGS www.j-progs.com
Morgan, J. Rome the Eternal City 2 2004, J-PROGS www.j-progs.com
Morgan, J. Rome Photo CD 2 2005, J-PROGS www.j-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
University of Virginia, The Pompeii Forum Project, 1997 http://pompeii.virginia.edu
Wallace-Hadrill, A. F, Houses and Society
in Pompeii and Herculaneum 1994,
University Press. ISBN 0691029091
Ward Perkins, J. B. Roman Imperial Architecture 1992, Yale
University Press. ISBN
0300052928
Zanker, P.
Pompeii: Public and Private Life 1998, Harvard University Press. ISBN
0674689674