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The following sample list offers choices of required readings for the M.A. in Classical Antiquities, Special Field: Roman Art and Archaeology. Students are expected to consult with their advisor before choosing the readings, which will form the basis of their special field examination.
General Handbooks:
- Ramage, N. and A. Ramage, Roman Art (2000, 3rd edition)
- Strong, D., Roman Art (1980)
- Henig, M., ed., Handbook of Roman Art (1983)
Ancient Sources:
- Pollitt, J., The Art of Rome c. 753 B.C. A.D. 337 Sources and Documents (1983)
- Isager, J., Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Plinyıs Chapters on the History of Art (1991)
- Rowland, I., T. Howe, and M. Dewar, Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture (1999)
Historiography:
Period/Geographical Studies:
- Brendel, O., Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art (1979)
- Zanker, P., The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (1988)
- Boatwright, M., Hadrian and the City of Rome (1987)
- Banchi-Bandinelli, R., Rome: The Late Empire (1971)
- LıOrange, H. P., Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire (1965)
- Vermeule, C., Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (1968)
- Zanker, P., Pompeii: Public and Private Life (1998)
Media Studies:
Architecture:
Sculpture:
- Boethius, A., Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (1978)
- Ward-Perkins, J., Imperial Roman Architecture (1981)
- Anderson, J., The Historical Topography of the Imperial Fora (1984)
- MacDonald, W., The Architecture of the Roman Empire, vols. I (1982 2nd ed.) and II (1987)
- Kleiner, F., The Arch of Nero in Rome (1985)
- Wallace-Hadrill, A., Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994)
- DeLaine, J., The Baths of Caracalla (1997)
- Kleiner, D., Roman Sculpture (1992)
- Koeppel, G., "Grand Pictorial Tradition of Historical Representations," ANRW II.12.1 (1982), 507-35.
- Ridgway, B. S., Roman copies of Greek sculpture: the problem of the originals (1984)
- Gazda, E., "Etruscan Influence in the Funerary Reliefs of Late Republican Rome: A Study of Roman Vernacular Portraiture," ANRW I.4, (1981) 855-70
- Wood, S., Roman Portrait Sculpture, 217-260 A.D. (1986)
Painting and Mosaics:
- Ling, R., Roman Painting (1991)
- Ling, R., Roman Mosaics (1998)
- Holliday, P., "Roman Triumphal Painting: its function, development, and reception," Art Bulletin, v. 79 (Mar. 97): pp. 130-47
- Clarke, J., The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C. A.D. 250: Ritual, Space and Decoration (1991)
Coins and Gems:
- Harl, K., Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East (1987)
- Bieber, M., "The Development of Portraiture on Roman Republican Coins," ANRW I.4 (1973) 871-98
- Pollini, J., "The Gemma Augusta: Ideology, Rhetorical Imagery and the Creation of a Dynastic Narrative," in P. Holliday, Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (1994)
Theory and Methods:
- Alcock, S., Graecia Capta: the landscapes of Roman Greece (1993)
- Greene, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy (1990)
- Elsner, Art and Text in Ancient Rome (1996)
- Gazda, E., Roman Art in the Private Sphere (1991)
- Conlin, D., The Artists of the Ara Pacis (1997)
- Bergmann, B., "The Pregnant Moment: Tragic Wives in the Roman Interior," in Kampen, N., ed., Sexuality in Ancient Art (1996)
- Nodelman, S., "How to read a Roman Portrait," in DıAmbra, E., ed., Roman Art in Context: An Anthology (1993)
Excavation Reports:
Students are required to read two recent excavation reports. Reports will be selected in consultation with the examiner. Recent examples include:
- "Umm el-Jimal: a frontier town and its landscape in northern Jordan," JRA supplement no. 26 (1998)
- "A Roman provincial capital and its hinterland: the survey of the territory of Tarragona, Spain, 1985-1990," JRA supplement no. 15 (1995)