This course looks at the interaction of the best-known and most influential Hellenistic royal capital, Pergamon, with its ally and later master, Rome, from the 4th c. BC into the Roman Imperial age. We first examine Pergamon, its monuments for allied cities, and the Attalid dynasty's displays around the Mediterranean, observing its attention to native Anatolian cultures as well as to Hellenism. Rich by commerce, Pergamon was a major exporter of mass-produced ceramics, textiles, silver vessels, and marble furnishings, as well as a workshop center for mosaic, sculpture, monumental architecture and landscape architecture; the royal library-museum helped found `art history' and the `art collection' as now known. Intimate political friendship with Pergamon catalyzed Rome's fascination with Anatolian
culturesto which both claimed cousinship, and Rome's `Hellenism' - its embrace of the Hellenistic world's common visual, literary, religious and socio-political culture; we look therefore at the Attalids' artistic address to Roman viewers, Roman emulation of Pergamene models of all kinds, and Rome's centuries of care for the legacy of the Attalid Golden Age.

Open to advanced undergraduates, with the written permission of Professor Kuttner.

Prerequisites: reading capability in at least one of French, German, or Italian; for undergraduates, prior coursework in ancient studies is required.