Key readings

Required:

• Biers, W. 1996: The archaeology of Greece, Cornell.
• Shanks, M. 1996: Classical archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the discipline, London.

Recommended:

• Etienne, R. and F. Etienne 1992: Discoveries: The search for ancient Greece, London. (out of print and not in bookstore)
• Whitley, J. 2001: The archaeology of ancient Greece, Cambridge.

These key readings will be accompanied by weekly readings in the specific topic areas. We will discuss this material in the Thursday reading sections.

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Week One

9/26/05. Introduction: In search of wonders

9/28/05. A general survey of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
Readings:

• Biers, Chapters 1, 2 and 3, 13-96.
• Shanks: Chapter 1, 9-21.

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• Runnels, C. and P. Murray 2001: Greece before history, Stanford. Chapter 4, The Bronze Age, 65-114. (photocopy of PDF will be provided)

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9/29/05. Discussion session (Location TBA)

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Week Two

10/3/05: 1200 ending and beginnings, the case of the Argolid

Readings:

• Biers: Chapter 4, 97-109
• Runnels, C. and P. Murray 2001: Greece before history, Stanford. Chapter 4, The Bronze Age, 65-114. (Note: that this reading replaces Drews on the syllabus)

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10/5/05: ‘Dark Times’ and the age of Iron

Readings:

• Morris, I. 1996: “Greece in the Iron Age” in The Iron Age in Europe, edited by Anna-Maria Bietti-Sestieri, Rome, 127-143

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• Whitley Chapter 5, 77-101.

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10/6/05: Discussion session

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Week three

10/10/05: the Geometric world

Readings:

• Biers: Chapter 5, 110-131
• Shanks: Chapter 3, 53-91.

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10/12/05: the rise of the polis

Readings:

• Biers: Chapter 6, 132-153

10/13/05: Discussion session

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Week Four

10/17/05: Archaic Greece

Readings:

• Biers: Chapter 7, 154-193
• Snodgrass, A. 1980: Archaic Greece: The age of experiment, Berkeley. Introduction and Chapter 1 and 2, 11-84.

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10/19/05: Corinth (visiting lecture M. Shanks)

Readings:

• Shanks, M. 1999: Art and the early Greek state, Cambridge. Chapter 2, 37-72.

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10/20/05: Discussion session

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Week Five

10/24/05: Sanctuaries: Olympia, Delphi and Delos

Readings:

• Whitley, Chapter 7, 134-164.

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10/26/05: the 5th century

Readings:

• Biers Chapter 8, 194-247

10/27/05: Discussion session

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Week Six

10/31/05: Midterm!

11/2/05: lecture on Greek art at the Cantor Arts Center

Readings:

• Shanks: Chapter 2, 22-52.

11/3/05: Discussion session

Week Seven

11/7/05: 5th century Athens and its environs

Readings:

• Camp, J.M. 2001: The archaeology of Athens, New Haven. 59-105.

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• Whitley Chapter 13, 329-375.

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11/9/05: The Greek world of Sicily

Readings:

• Holloway, R. 1991: The archaeology of ancient Sicily, London. Chapter 3, 97-120.

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11/10/05: Discussion session

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Week Eight

11/14/05: The Greek world of Asia Minor

Readings:
Note: For today I have placed a survey of the Greek sites of Pergamon and Ephesus in Turkey which is to be browsed. Note the treatment of the material.

• Akurgal, E. 1970: Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey

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11/16/05: Domestic space: Olynthos and Halieis

Readings:

• Nevett, L.C. 1999: House and society in the ancient Greek world, Cambridge. Chapter 5, 80-126.

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11/17/05: Discussion session

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11/21/05-11/25/05 Thanksgiving Break

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Week Nine

11/28/05: The Greek landscape, two cases from the Peloponnesus

Readings:

• Whitley: Chapter 14, 376-399.

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• Davis, J. 1998: Glimpses of the Messenian Past, in Davis, J. (ed) Sandy Pylos: Archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino, Austin. Introduction, xxix-xliii.

Photocopies will be passed out in class.

11/30/05: The 4th century and the Hellenistic World

Readings:

• Biers: Chapters 9 and 10, 247-329.
• Whitley: Chapter 15, 400-419.

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12/1/05: Discussion session

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Week Ten (last week of classes!)

12/5/05: the case of Messenia

Readings:

• Alcock, S.E. Liberation and conquest: Hellenistic and Roman Messenia, in Davis, J. (ed) Sandy Pylos: Archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino, Austin. Chapter 7, 179-191.

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12/7/05: The percolation of the Greek past

Readings:

• Shanks: Chapters 6 and 7, 156-182.

12/8/05: Discussion session (presentation of final project abstracts)

12/15/05: Final projects due!

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