CLAS
4340/6340
ANCIENT
ATHENS
INFORMATION ABOUT WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Syllabus
Spring 2007
Lecture Schedule & Reading Assignments
This syllabus is a general plan for the course; it may be necessary for me to modify the topics and assignments as the semester progresses.
| Week # |
Dates | Topics for Discussion | Required & Supplemental Reading Assignments (assignments must be complete by the start of class on the day they appear) |
| 1 | Jan 8 | Introduction to the course | Course information sheet. Familiarize yourself with the website. |
| Jan 10 | Workshop 1: The Archaeological Toolkit: Stratigraphy | No materials are posted on the website for this workshop. Just come to class & participate in the exercise. | |
| Jan 12 | The Archaeological Toolkit: Chronology | Bahn, 1-53 (online) |
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| 2 | Jan 15 | No Class in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. No reading assignment | |
| Jan 17 | No class today. No reading assignment. | ||
| Jan 19 | The Geographical & Environmental Setting | Camp, chap. 1 | |
| 3 | Jan 22 | The Mythological Setting | Hurwit, chap. 1 |
| Jan 24 | Bronze Age Athens | Camp, chap 2 | |
| Jan 26 | Dark Age Athens | Hurwit, chap. 2 | |
| 4 | Jan 29 | Geometric Athens | Camp, “Drought,” Hesp. 48 (1979) (online) |
| Jan 31 | Workshop 2: Geometric Burials of Athens | Read & examine material posted on the course web site. Come to class prepared to discuss and comment on it. | |
| Feb 2 | Greek Construction Practice: Temples and Other Buildings | Coulton, chaps. 1-2 (online) PM due by 3:30 |
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| 5 | Feb 5 | The 6th Century Agora | Camp, chap. 3 |
| Feb 7 | Archaic Akropolis, I | Shear, "Tyrants and Buildings in Archaic Athens," from Athens Comes of Age (Princeton: [s.n.], 1978). (online) | |
| Feb 9 | Archaic Akropolis, II | Writing assignment #1 due by 3:30 | |
| 6 | Feb 12 | Workshop 3: Dedications on the Akropolis | Read & examine material posted on the course web site. Come to class prepared to discuss and comment on it. |
| Feb 14 | Archaic Akropolis, III | PM due by 3:30 |
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| Feb 16 | The Archaeology of Athenian Festivals | H. W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1977), pp. 29-50. (online) N.J. Norman, "The Panathenaic Ship" (online) |
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| 7 | Feb 19 | Festivals Athens & the Persians, I |
Camp, chap. 4 Hurwit, Athenian Akropolis, chap. 7 (online) Paper bibliography due by 3:30 |
| Feb 21 | Athens & the Persians, II | R. Osborne, Classical Landscape, chaps. 1-2 (online) | |
| Feb 23 | Athens & the Persians, III | ||
| 8 | Feb 26 | Midterm Exam | Several slides of material discussed during class or in your homework assignments will be shown. For each item, identify the object (i.e., give name, date, material, artist [if applicable] and provenance [place of origin].) For some of the slides, you will be asked to comment on the significance of the object/s or place for classical archaeology. The test will also include some short IDs and probably a map. |
| Feb 28 | Periklean Athens, I | Plutarch’s life of Perikles (online)
Camp, chap. 4 Hurwit, chaps. 3-4 |
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| Mar 1 | NB: Mar 1 is the deadline to withdraw—see my policy on assigning Ws and WFs. | ||
| Mar 2 | Periklean Athens, II | Hurwit, chaps. 5-7 | |
| 9 | Mar 5 | Workshop 4: Parthenon Frieze | Read & examine material posted on the course web site. Come to class prepared to discuss and comment on it. |
| Mar 7 | Periklean Athens, III | Hurwit, chaps 8-9 Korres, Stones of the Parthenon (online) PM due by 3:30 |
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| Mar 9 | Burying the Athenian Dead | Thucydides 2.34-46, "Perikles' Funeral Oration" (online) Morris, Death Ritual & Social Structure, chap. 4 (online) PM due by 3:30 |
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| 10 | Mar 12-16 | SPRING BREAK. Work on your projects and papers. | |
| 11 | Mar 19 | The Laws & Athenian Democracy | Lang |
| Mar 21 | No class today | work on your papers and projects | |
| Mar 23 | Eleusis & the Mysteries, I | Greek Sanctuaries: New Approaches, chap.
6 (online) |
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| 12 | Mar 26 | Eleusis & the Mysteries, II | Complete draft of paper due by 3:30 |
| Mar 28 | The Peiraieus | R. Garland, The Piraeus. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), chap. 4. (online) | |
| Mar 30 | Hellenistic Athens, I | Camp, chap. 5 | |
| 13 | Apr 2 | Hellenistic Athens, II | Stewart, Attalos, Athens & Akropolis, chap. 1 (online) |
| Apr 4 | Augustan Athens | ||
| Apr 6 | Roman Athens | Camp, chap. 6 | |
| 14 | Apr 9 | Byzantine Athens | Camp, Archaeology of Athens, chap. 7 (online) |
| Apr 11 | Athenian Twilight | J. Rothenberg, "Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles" (online) | |
| Apr 13 | The Antiquarians | F. Malloucho-Tufano, lecture on restoration of the Akropolis (online) Paper due by 3:30 |
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| 15 | Apr 16 | PowerPoint presentations | |
| Apr 18 | PowerPoint presentations | ||
| Apr 20 | PowerPoint presentations | ||
| 16 | Apr 23 | PowerPoint presentations | |
| Apr 25 | No Class today for Honors Convocation | ||
| Apr 27 | PowerPoint presentations | ||
| 17 | Apr 30 | PowerPoint presentations & Evaluations | |
| May 2 | Final Exam. 3:30-6: 30 pm. | ||
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