Monte Testaccio and the Roman Forum
Today we will take a walking tour of Monte Testaccio, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum and Trajan's Markets.
Readings: Trade and the Economics of Monument Building
Paterson, J., "'Salvation from the Sea': Amphorae and Trade in the Roman West," Journal of Roman Studies 1982
Thornton, M. K. and R. L. Thornton, “Manpower Needs for the Public
Works Programs of the Julio-Claudian Emperors,” Journal of Economic
History (June 1983)
Readings: Environment and Ecology of Rome
Fox, Robin Lane, “Ancient hunting: from Homer to Polybius," in Human
Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996, pp. 119-153.
Hughes, Donald. "Introduction: Ecology in the Greek and Roman Worlds,"
Chapter 1 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient
Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "The Environment: Life, land, and Sea in the
Mediterranean Region," Chapter 2 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental
Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University
1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Ecological Crises in Earlier Societies," Chapter 3 in
Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
Johns Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Concepts of the Natural World," Chapter 4 in Pan’s
Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns
Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Deforestation, Overgrazing and Erosion," (Part 2) Chapter 5 in
Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
Johns Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Wildlife Depletion: Hunting Fishing and the Arena,"
Chapter 6 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient
Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Industrial Technology and Environmental Damage,"
Chapter 7 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient
Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Agricultural Decline," Ch. 8 in Pan’s Travail.
Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins
University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Urban Problems," Chapter 9 in Pan’s Travail.
Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins
University 1994.
Hughes, Donald. "Environmental Problems as Factors in the Decline of
the Greek and Roman Civilizations" Chapter 11 in Pan’s Travail.
Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins
University 1994.
Hughes, J. Donald, “Social Structure and Environmental Impact in the
Roman Empire,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15 (September 2004), 29-35.
Huntington, Ellsworth, “Climatic Change and Agricultural Exhaustion as
Elements in the Fall of Rome,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 31 (Feb.
1917), 173-208
Scobie, "Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World," KLIO 68 (1986) 399-422.
Smith, Catherine Delano, "Where was the ‘wilderness’ in Roman times?"
Chapter 7 in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, Routledge 1996,
154-179.
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Links Read more about the archeological dig at Monte Testaccio.
History of Monte Testaccio.
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