Supervised reading and laboratory work. A possibility exists for summer fieldwork in Greece or Turkey. A. Ramage . The visual arts in the service of the first world state. The course starts with the architecture, painting, and sculpture of the Etruscan and Republican period but concentrates on monuments of the imperial era in Italy and the provinces until the time of Constantine.
Art made for private patrons is considered, along with the official presentations of the emperors.
J. Coleman . Reports, delivered in class, will concern ancient ceramic materials or particular types and periods. Practical experience in making and decorating pottery will be encouraged. A. Nussbaum . A survey of the dialects of ancient Greek through the reading and analysis of representative epigraphical and literary texts.