University of Arizona - Roman Art and Archaeology 

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Dr. Soren in Italy

About the course

About us

Syllabus

Grading policy

The textbook

Online resources

Archaeological excavation opportunities

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

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. 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

Quiz One: The Early Romans and Their Ancestors

Quiz Two: The Etruscans, Part I

Quiz Three: The Etruscans, Part II

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

1. Early Roman Expansion

2. Underwater Archaeology

3. Republican Art

4. Carthage

5. "Carthage: A Mosaic of Ancient Tunisia"

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

Quiz Four: The Early Republic

Quiz Five: The Middle Republic

Quiz Six: The Civil Wars

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov sings as Nero

Dr. Soren's Work at Kourion (Coming Soon!)

Quiz Seven: The Age of Augustus

Quiz Eight: The Julio-Claudian Emperors

Quiz Nine: The Flavian Emperors

1. Trajan

2. The Imperial Roman Forum

3. Trajan's Forum

4. Hadrian

5. The Pantheon

6. Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

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

Hollywood's "Gladiator"

Richard Harris plays Marcus Aurelius

Quiz Ten: Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian

Quiz Eleven: The Antonine and Severan Emperors

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

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

1. From Dr. Soren and Lana, "Farewell!"

2. "Malaria and the Fall of Rome"

Quiz Twelve: The Beginning of the End

Quiz Thirteen: Rome in Late Antiqutity