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Camp, J. M. The Archaeology of Athens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0300101511.

Claridge, A. Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192880039.

Stambaugh, J. E. The Ancient Roman City. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 0801836921.


LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction to the Study of Ancient Cities
2 Polis: The City of Athens Camp. pp. 1-10, and 21-160.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. 1.1.1 to 1.30.4. Translated into English by W. H. S. Jones, Litt.D., and H. A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. ISBN: 0674991044.
3 Urbs: The City of Rome Claridge. pp. 1-59.

Stambaugh. pp. 1-100.

Dudley, Donald R. Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City & its Monuments. London, UK: Phaidon Press, 1967, pp. 3-31.
4 Religion in the Greek City Review: Pausanias. Description of Greece. 1.1.1 to 1.30.4. Translated into English by W. H. S. Jones, Litt.D., and H. A. Ormerod, M.A. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. ISBN: 0674991044.

Neils, Jenifer, ed. "The Panathenaia: An Introduction." In Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1992, pp. 13-27. ISBN: 0691002231.

Camp. pp. 247-257, 276-281, 283-289, and 305-309 (and please review pp. 72-100).

Rhodes, Robin F. Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 42-65. ISBN: 0521469813.

Simon, Erika. Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, pp. 55-72. ISBN: 0299091848.
5 Religion in the Roman City Stambaugh. pp. 213-240.

Beard, Mary, and Michael Crawford. Rome in the Late Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 25-39. ISBN: 0801493331.

Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. Vol. I. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 167-210. ISBN: 0521316820.

Claridge. Please read the entries relevant to all the sites listed under 'altars', 'shrines', and 'temples' in the index.
6 Civic space I: The Agora Aristotle. Constitution of the Athenians 42-69. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950.

Lang, Mabel. The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora. Revised edition. Revised by J. Camp. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Revised edition, 2004. ISBN: 0876616422.

Camp. pp. 257-261 and please review discussions of the Agora in chapter 4, pp. 59-160 passim.

Millett, Paul. "Encounters in the Agora." In Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens. Edited by Paul Cartledge. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 203-228. ISBN: 0521570816.
7 Civic space II: The Forum Polybius. Histoires Book 6. Edited by R. Weil, and C. Nicolet. Paris, France: Les Belles Lettres, 1969. ISBN: 2251004432.

Stambaugh. pp. 101-122.

Claridge. pp. 61-99, and 147-173.

Patterson, J. "The City of Rome: from Republic to Empire." Journal of Roman Studies 82 (1992): 186-215.

Purcell, Nicholas. "Forum Romanum." In Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Edited by M. Steinby. Roma, Italy: Quasar, c1993-c2000, pp. 325-341. ISBN: 8870970191.

———. "Rediscovering the Roman Forum." Journal of Roman Archaeology 2 (1989): 156-166.
8 Feeding the City Stambaugh. pp. 123-156.

Rickman, Geoffrey. The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1980, pp. 156-197. ISBN: 0198148380.
9 Domestic Space Jameson, M. "Private Space and the Greek City." In The Greek City from Homer to Alexander. Edited by Oswyn Murray, and Simon Price. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 171-195. ISBN: 0198147910.

Nevett, Lisa. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 53-79. ISBN: 005216439X.

Stambaugh. pp. 157-182.

Richardson, Lawrence. Pompeii: An Architectural History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, pp. 382-400. ISBN: 080183533X.

Vitruvius. On Architecture, Book 6. London, UK: Heineman, 1962.

Ellis, Simon. Roman Housing. London, UK: Duckworth, 2000, pp. 166-178. ISBN: 0715628771.
10 Recreational Space Wycherley, Richard E. How the Greeks Built Cities. 2nd ed. London, UK: Macmillan, 1962, pp. 139-174.

Fisher, N. "Gymnasia and the Democratic Values of Leisure." In Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens. Edited by Paul Cartledge et. al. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 84-104. ISBN: 0521570816.

Stambaugh. pp. 198-212.

Claridge. pp. 288-290, 319-328, and 352-354.

Brothers, A. J. "Buildings for Entertainment." In Roman Public Buildings. Edited by I. M. Barton. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1989, pp. 97-125. ISBN: 0859892395.
11 City and Country: Theories of the City Finley, Moses. The Ancient Economy. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 123-149. ISBN: 0520054520.

Whittaker, C. R. "Do Theories of the City Matter?" In Urban Society in Roman Italy. Edited by Tim Cornell, and Kathryn Lomas. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 9-26. ISBN: 0312124163.

Horden, Peregrine, and Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp. 89-122. ISBN: 0631218904.
12 Conclusions