ROMAN ROADS, ITINERARIES AND LAND TRAVEL
Schedule of lectures, labs and readings
Last update to this page: 24 February 2004, 10:28 a.m.
Lectures and Labs
January 2004
- Thursday 1/8: Introductions and Course Overview
- Tuesday 1/13: Overview of Roman History (guest lecture by Prof. Richard Talbert)
- Thursday 1/15: Lab: Mapping Horace's Trip to Brundisium, Part 1
Read in advance:- Horace, Satire 1.5, pp. 64-73 in Fairclough 1929 (keep notes on "who," "what," "where," and "when" to support our discussion during class, xerox in Murphey Reserve)
- Casson 1974, pp. 163-196
- Tuesday 1/20: Maps or No Maps? (guest lecture by Prof. Richard Talbert)
Read in advance: - Thursday 1/22: Lab 1 Assigned
(link to the lab in PDF format, revised 1/23)
Read in advance:- Clarke 2003, "What is a GIS?" (Chapter 1, pp. 1-31, xerox in Murphey Reserve).
- Tuesday 1/27: The Development of the Roman Road System, Part 1
Read in advance:- Gordon 1983, nos. 12 (pp. 87-89 with Plate 8) and 18 (pp. 93-94 with Plate 11) = "Milestone with Acephalous Elogium, Polla" and "Main Inscription on the Fabricius Bridge, Rome." Xerox of these pages is available in Murphey Reserve.
- Plutarch, Caius Gracchus I-IX, pp. 196-219 in Perrin 1921 (Ponder as you read: "Can you deduce from Plutarch's
account why Gracchus might have involved himself in road construction? Does this involvement
'fit' in any way with his other activities?"). Murphey Reserve.
For optional background reading on the Gracchus brothers, see: Boatwright 2004, pp. 156-165.
- Thursday 1/29: Lab 1 Continued
Read in advance:- Clarke 2003, "GIS's Roots in Cartography" (Chapter 2, pp. 34-65, xerox in Murphey Reserve).
February 2004
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Tuesday 2/3: Written Materials Relating to Geography, Space
and Travel (guest lecture by Prof. Richard Talbert)
Read in advance:- "Unique Roman souvenir reveals Hadrian's Wall secrets," The Portable Antiquities Scheme: National News, 9/30/03. [ link to on-line document ]
- "Staffordshire Moorlands Patera Database Record (WMID-3FE965)," The Portable Antiquities Scheme, 10/1/03. [ link to on-line record ]
- Optional (background): Hadrian's Wall: World Heritage Site, Hadrian's Wall Tourism Partnership, 1998-2001. [ link to Hadrian's Wall website ]
- Thursday 2/5: Lab 2 Assigned
(link to the lab in PDF format) - Tuesday 2/10: Mapping Horace
Lab 1 due via email at 8:00 a.m. - Thursday 2/12: Peutinger's Roman Map (guest lecture by Prof. Richard
Talbert)
Read in advance:- Talbert 2004, at least through page 131 (and figures after page 141).
- Digital versions of the figures to accompany Talbert 2004, available via this link.
Lab 2 due via email at 8:00 a.m. - Tuesday 2/17: The Development of the Roman Road System, Part 2
- Thursday 2/19: Mapping Horace's trip to Brundisium (Lab 3 Assigned)
(link to the lab in PDF format) - Tuesday 2/24: Studying Pre-modern Roads in Burgundy with GIS and Remote Sensing (guest lecture by Prof. Scott Madry)
- Thursday 2/26: Lab: Analyzing Pre-modern Roads in Burgundy
March 2004
- Tuesday 3/2: Physical Roads: Construction, Maintenance and Management
Read in advance:- Davies 2002, Chapters 2, 5-8 and 10 (pp. 15-18, 39-86, 105-112).
- Thursday 3/4: Lab 3 continued
- Tuesday 3/9: No class: spring break
- Thursday 3/11: No class: spring break
- Tuesday 3/16:Imperial Roads: The Army, War and Governance
- Thursday 3/18: Lab 3 continued
- Tuesday 3/23: Security on the Roads (guest lecture by Christopher Fuhrmann)
- Thursday 3/25: Class cancelled: work on Lab 3
- Tuesday 3/30: Economic Roads: Agriculture, Trade and the World Off the Highway
Lab 3 due via email at 8:00 a.m.
April 2004
- Thursday 4/1: Lab 4: the calculation of elevation profiles and ground distance
- Tuesday 4/6: Civic Roads: Traffic and City Life
Read in advance:- E. Poehler, "Directionality of Pompeii's Urban Streets"
- Ibid., "A Diachronic Perspective on Directionality: Detour and the Pattern of Pompeian Traffic"
- Ibid., "Interaction of the Water System and Traffic System in Pompeii"
Optional additional reading: - Thursday 4/8: Lab TBA
- Tuesday 4/13: Etruscan Roads (guest lecture by Hilary Becker)
- Thursday 4/15: Lab TBA
- Tuesday 4/20: Sacred Roads: Approaching the Gods and Spreading Christianity
- Thursday 4/22: Lab TBA
- Thursday 4/29, 4:00 p.m., Final Exam
Books, Articles and Other Readings
Individual reading assignments are detailed above in the Lectures and Labs list. The list of books, articles and other resources below will tell you where to find each item. Items marked with "UL Reserve" followed by a call number are books that have been placed, for your use, in the Undergraduate Library Reserve Reading Room. You can learn more about UL Reserve policies on the webpage of the Electronic Reserve System. Items marked with "Murphey Reserve" are (also) in a folder in the Classics Department Library in Murphey Hall.
- Adams 2001
- C. Adams and R. Laurence (eds.), Travel and geography in the Roman Empire, London, 2001. UL Reserve: DG30.T73 2001
- BAtlas
- R. Talbert (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Princeton, 2000. Multiple copies in Davis Reference, Art Reference, UL Reference and the Maps Collection.
- Boatwright 2004
- M. Boatwright, D. Gargola and R. Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire: A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine, New York, 2004.
- Campbell 1996
- B. Campbell, "Shaping the Rural Environment: Surveyors in Ancient Rome," JRS 86 (1996), 74-99. Online via UNC-CH Libraries Web.
- Campbell 2000
- B. Campbell, The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors, London, 2000. UL Reserve: TA516.C26.2000
- Casson 1974
- L. Casson, Travel in the Ancient World, London, 1974. UL Reserve: G88.C34
- Chevallier 1976
- R. Chevallier, Roman Roads, Berkeley, 1976. UL Reserve: DG28.C4613
- Clarke 2003
- K. Clarke, Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems, 4th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003. UL Reserve: G70.212.C57 2003. Earlier editions are not acceptable!
- Davies 2002
- H. Davies, Roads in Roman Britain, Stroud, 2002. UL Reserve: DA145 .D38 2002
- DIR
- R. Weigel, et al., De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, http://www.roman-emperors.org, 1996-.
- Fairclough 1929
- H. Fairclough (ed. and trans.), Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, Loeb Classical Library, rev. ed., Cambridge, MA, 1929 (various reprints). UL Reserve: PA6156.H6 A4 1929.
- Forum Romanum
- D. Camden (dir.), Forum Romanum, www.forumromanum.org, 2003-. Note especially the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a growing catalog of online Latin texts.
- Gordon 1983
- A. Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy, Berkeley, 1983. Davis Epigraphy Room: CN510.G63 1983.
- Imago Mundi
- Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, Berlin, 1935-, ISSN: 0308-5694. Maps Collection Folio GA1.I6 .
- JRS
- The Journal of Roman Studies, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1880-, ISSN: 00754358.
- Kramer 2001
- B. Kramer, "The Earliest Known Map of Spain (?) and the Geography of Artemidorus of Ephesus on Papyrus," Imago Mundi 53 (2001), 115-120. 2 copies in Murphey Reserve only.
- Lewis 2001
- M. Lewis, Surveying instruments of Greece and Rome, Cambridge, 2001. UL Reserve: TA562.L49 2001
- Meijer 1992
- F. Meijer and O. van Nijf (eds.), Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World: A Sourcebook, London, 1992.
- OCD3
- S. Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (or 3rd ed. rev), London, 1996 or 1999. Multiple copies in Davis Reference, UL Reference and Art Reference. Searchable digital version available, under UNC-CH site license, through the InteLex Corporation's Past Masters database. Do not use an edition earlier than the third edition (1996)!
- O'Connor 1993
- C. O'Connor, Roman Bridges, Cambridge, 1993. UL Reserve: Folio DG28.036 1993
- Perrin 1921
- B. Perrin, Plutarch's Lives, vol. 10, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, 1921 (various reprints). UL Reserve: PA3612.P7 1914a v.10
- Perseus
- G. Crane (ed.), The Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, 1987-. If the Tufts site is too slow, or is not working properly, try the Perseus Mirror at the University of Chicago.
- Talbert 1985
- R. Talbert, Atlas of Classical History, London, 1985 (and many subsequent reprints). UL Reserve: G1033 .A833 1985b
- Talbert 2004
- R. Talbert, "Cartography and Taste in Peutinger's Roman Map," in R. Talbert and K. Brodersen (eds.), Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation, Antike Kultur und Geschichte Antike Kultur und Geschichte 5, Münster, 2004. One copy of article in Murphey Reserve only.