Spring 2006: Lecture Schedule & Reading Assignments

Week 1: Jan 9-13

Jan 9-13: Topics for Discussion

• Introduction to the course & archaeology
• Philip 2 of Macedon and Precedents for the Hellenistic World
• Royal Tomb at Vergina

Required Reading:
J. Boardman, J. Griffin, O. Murray, Greece and the Hellenistic World, pp. 309-58 (online)
M. Andronikos, “The Royal Tombs at Vergina” in The Search for Alexander, Exhibit (online)
O. Palagia, “Hephaestion’s Pyre and the Royal Hunt of Alexander” in Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (online)

Supplemental Reading:
E. N. Borza, Before Alexander: Constructing Early Macedonia, 5-26 (online)

Week 2: Jan 16-20

Jan 16: Martin Luther King Day. No class today.
Jan 18-20: Topics for Discussion

• Alexander the Great (guest lecturer: Dr. Corrigan)
• Alexander the Great: History vs. Romance
• Rise of Biography

Required Reading:
Plutarch’s “Life of Alexander” (UGA library, any translation, or online on the Perseus site: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu )
P.A. Brunt, “The Aims of Alexander” (online)

Supplemental Reading:
E. Carney, “Artifice and Alexander History” (online)
R. Stoneman, “Alexander in the Arabic Tradition” (online)
review of Frank L. Holt, Into the Land of Bones. Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. Berkeley: 2005 (online, BMCR at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/)

Week 3: Jan 23-27

Jan 23-25: Topics for Discussion

• Rise of Portraiture
• Alexander’s portraiture
• Alexander’s Death & Funeral

Required Reading:
J.J. Pollitt, 1-46
handout on sources for Alexander’s death (online)

Jan 27: Workshop #1: Alexander & the Mt. Athos project

Week 4: Jan 30-Feb 3

Jan 30-Feb 3: Topics for Discussion

• Alexander’s Successors
• Historical summary of the Hellenistic period
• Violence as a way of life

Required Reading:
P. Green, 3-21, 119-34 and 137-54

Supplemental Reading:
E. Badian, “The Administration of the Empire” (online)
B.S. Ridgway, “Court Art and Hellenistic Art” (online)

Week 5: Feb 6-10

Feb 6: Identity projects due
Feb 6-10: Topics for Discussion

• Lysippos and the Seeds of Hellenistic Sculpture
• Hellenistic “Baroque”
• Altar of Zeus at Pergamon

Required Reading:
J.J. Pollitt, 47-110
P. Green, 65-79, 187-200

Supplemental Reading:
J. Onians, Art & Thought in Hellenistic Age, 72-94 (online)
A. Stewart, “Pergamo Ara Marmorea Magna: On the Date, Reconstruction, & Functions of the Great Altar of Pergamon” in N. de Grummond and B. Ridgway, eds., From Pergamon to Sperlonga, 32-57 (online)

Week 6: Feb 13-17

Feb 13: Workshop #2: Attalid Dedications in Pergamon & Athens
Feb 15-17: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic “Rococo”
• Narrative in Hellenistic Art: the Statue Group

Required Reading:
J.J. Pollitt, 111-63
P. Green, 171-86, 336-61

Week 7: Feb 20-24

Feb 20-24: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic Sacred Architecture
• Hellenistic Civic Architecture and City Planning: the case of Priene

Required Reading:
J.J. Pollitt, 230-63 and Appendix III
Entry on Priene in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Alexander Room, UGA library, or online on the Perseus website)
H. Thompson, “Architecture as a Medium of Public Relations” (online)

Supplemental Reading:
J. Onians, Art & Thought in Hellenistic Age, 119-50 (online)

Week 8: Feb 27-Mar 3

Feb 27: Identity Test and Slide Test #1
Mar 1-3: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic Civic Architecture and City Planning: the case of Pergamon

Required Reading:
Entry on Pergamon in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Alexander Room, UGA library, or online on the Perseus website)
P. Green, 80-91 and 155-70

Week 9: Mar 6-10

Note: Mar 7 is the deadline to withdraw—see my policy on assigning Ws & WFs
Mar 6: Workshop #3: Life and Death in Alexandria
Mar 8-10: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic Literature and Patronage
• Bucolic Tradition
• Nostalgia and Classicism
• “Apotheosis of Homer” relief

Required Reading:
Theokritos, Idylls 2, 15 & 24 (handout)
David Halperin, “Bucolic Poetry” (online)
P. Green, 233-47

Supplemental Reading:
P. Green, 566-85
J.J. Pollitt, 164-84

Week 10: Mar 13-17

Mar 13-17 : SPRING BREAK NO CLASS.
Work on your paper.

Week 11: Mar 20-24

Mar 22: Turn in the thesis paragraph for your paper
Mar 20-24: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic Religion: Dionysos & the male Olympians
• Hellenistic Religion: Aphrodite

Required Reading:
Athenaeus' description of the procession of Ptolemy 2, Deipnosophistae 5.201.b-f (Alex. room, UGA library or online)
P. Green, 396-413, 453-96, 586-601

Supplemental Reading:
J. Onians, Art & Thought in Hellenistic Age, 151-79 (online)

Week 12: Mar 27-31

Mar 27-29: Topics for Discussion

• Private Life in the Hellenistic World: Women
• Private Life in the Hellenistic World: Housing

Mar 31: Workshop #4: Hellenistic Relief Sculpture & the Gods

Required Reading:
J.J. Pollitt, 210-229
P. Green, 382-95
Herondas, “Mime I: The Procuress” and “Mime IV: Women at the Temple” (handout)
E. Fantham, H. Foley, N. Kampen, S. Pomeroy, A. Shapiro, Women in the Classical World, 136-82 (online)

Supplemental Reading:
Barbara Hughes Fowler, The Hellenistic Aesthetic, 137-55 (online)

Week 13: Apr 3-7

Apr 3: The Library at Alexandria and Hellenistic Literature (guest lecturer: Dr. Dix)

Required Reading:
online articles in Archaeology magazine on the Pharos, Cleopatra's palace and the Royal Quarters at Alexandria.

Apr 5: No class today. Study for test and work on your paper.
Apr 7: Test #2: slide identification and literature identification

Week 14: Apr 10-14

Apr 10-14: Topics for Discussion

• Hellenistic Literature: Epic
• Apollonius, Argonautica

Required Reading:
Apollonius' Argonautica (UGA library, any translation), books 1-3
Green, 201-215

Week 15: Apr 17-21

Apr 17-21: Topics for Discussion

• Apollonius, Argonautica
• Hellenistic Wealth and Luxury
• Hellenistic Trade

Required Reading:
Apollonius' Argonautica, book 4
P. Green, 362-81

Week 16: Apr 24-28

Apr 24: TBA
Apr 26: Graduate Student Presentations in Class
Apr-28: Topics for Discussion

• Issues of Acculturation, Assimilation & Marginalization

Required Reading:
P. Green, 312-335, 497-524

Apr 28: Paper deadline. Papers are due in class; late papers will not be accepted.

Week 17: May 1

May 1: Last Day of Class—Wrap Up and Evaluations
May 5: Final Exam Day. Your take-home final exam essay is due in my office no later than noon today.