Caesar’s Salad: Roman Art During the Decline of the Roman Republic and At the Dawn of a New Empire: Seminar
Catalog Number: 85827
Adrian Staehli 6796 and Ruth Bielfeldt 5682
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5.
In the Late Republic, Rome becomes an arena of social and political strife. This seminar explores the radical transformation of Rome’s cityscape in this crucial period of Roman history: elite patronage and munificence, war commemoration and the Roman triumph, modes of aristocratic self-display in portraiture and coinage, otium-culture and leisure-lifestyles.
Adrian Staehli 6796 and Ruth Bielfeldt 5682
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5.
In the Late Republic, Rome becomes an arena of social and political strife. This seminar explores the radical transformation of Rome’s cityscape in this crucial period of Roman history: elite patronage and munificence, war commemoration and the Roman triumph, modes of aristocratic self-display in portraiture and coinage, otium-culture and leisure-lifestyles.