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.

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.

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

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

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)

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

• Whitley Chapter 5, 77-101.

10/6/05: Discussion session

Week three

10/10/05: the Geometric world

Readings:

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

10/12/05: the rise of the polis

Readings:

• Biers: Chapter 6, 132-153

10/13/05: Discussion session

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.

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

Readings:

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

10/20/05: Discussion session

Week Five

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

Readings:

• Whitley, Chapter 7, 134-164.

10/26/05: the 5th century

Readings:

• Biers Chapter 8, 194-247

10/27/05: Discussion session

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.

• Whitley Chapter 13, 329-375.

11/9/05: The Greek world of Sicily

Readings:

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

11/10/05: Discussion session

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

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.

11/17/05: Discussion session

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

Week Nine

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

Readings:

• Whitley: Chapter 14, 376-399.

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

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

Readings:

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

12/1/05: Discussion session

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.

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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