LECTURE TOPIC

READING ASSIGNMENT

Jan. 22

Introduction: Discovery of the Aegean Bronze Age

Jan. 24

Word List

History of the Discipline; Chronology, Environment; Basics of archaeological theory and practice

B: 1-7
BCs: Tartaron 2008 (83-95 and 121-135)

Jan. 29

Word List

The Stone Age Beginnings – Franchthi Cave and Neolithic Village life - Mainland, Crete, and the Cyclades

B: 9-10, 29-30, 55-56
BCs: Strasser et al. 2010

Jan. 31

Word List

Early Bronze Age Mainland and Troy

B: 56-66
BCs: Shaw 2007 and Bobokhyan 2009

Feb. 5/7

Word List

Early Bronze Age Cyclades and Crete

B: 10-26, 30-53
BCs: Hoffman 2002

Feb. 12

Word List

Middle Bronze Age Crete – the Proto-Palatial and Neo-Palatial periods

B: 67-69, 83-85, 88-91
BCs: Colburn 2008 and Schoep 2010=Ch.8 in OHBAA

Feb. 14

Palatial and Non-Palatial architecture

B: 69-82
BCs: Tartaron 2008, 93-100; Davis 1995 (in Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean. Aegaeum 11, 11-20.) and Everly 1999 (in Fresco: a Passport into the past).

Feb. 19

Minoan Art

B: 85-87, 92-108, 126-128
BCs: Tartaron 2008, 110-115; 1986 (JHS 106, 99-110) and Lupack (Minoan Religion) 2010 in OHBAA

Feb. 21

Minoan Society and Religion

BCs: Davis, Niemeier, and Hallager 1987 (in The Function of the Minoan Palaces).

Feb. 26/28

Word List

Akrotiri, Thera: the Bronze Age Pompeii 

B: 109-131
BCs: Morris 1989 (in AJA 93, 511-535) and Rehak 2002 (in Among Women: from the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World).

Mar. 5

Minoans and the Eastern Mediterranean

BCs: Knapp 1998 (in The Aegean and the Orient in the 2nd Millenium, Aegaeum 18, 193-207)

Mar. 7

Midterm Exam

Writing Assignment #1 due

Mar. 14

Word List

Middle Bronze Age Mainland; the Shaft Grave Warriors of Mycenae

B: 133-153
BCs: Tartaron 2008, 100-104 and Voutsaki 2010 in OHBAA

Mar. 19

Shaft Graves continued; Minoan vs Mainland style

B: 155-156
BCs: Davis 1974 (The Art Bulletin, 56.4, 472-487) and Hurwit (AJA 83, 413-426); tba

Mar. 21

Word List

Mycenaean Architecture: Tholoi and Chamber Tombs
Griffin Warrior

B: 170-172
BCs: Voutsaki 1998 (in Cemetery and Society in the ABA, 41-58) and Laxton & Cavanagh 1981 (BSA 106, 109-140); GriffinWarriorSmithsonian

Mar. 25/27

No class – SPRING BREAK

Apr. 2

Mycenaean Public Works: Walls, Roads and Bridges

Apr. 4

Mycenaean Architecture: Palaces and Houses

B: 161-170, 180-184
BCs: Dabney & Wright 1990 (in Celebrations of Death and Divinity, 45-53), Maran 2006 (in Constructing Power, 75-88), and Fitzsimons 2007 (in Power and Architecture, 93-115)

Apr. 9

Word List

Mycenaean Art

B: 156-161, 172-180
BCs: Chapin 2010 (in OHBAA); Tournavitou 1992 (in BSA 87, 181-210); Tournavitou 1997, 29-39

Apr. 11

Linear B and the political/economic administration

BCs: Tartaron 2008, 104-110; Shelmerdine 1997 (TEXNE, Aegaeum 16, 388-395)
Writing Assignment #2 due

Apr. 16

Word List

Mycenaean Religion and Society

BCs: Tartaron 2008, 115-121; Lupack (Mycenaean Religion) 2010 in OHBAA

Apr. 18

Word List

Trade and the International World of the Late Bronze Age

BCs: Bachhuber 2006 (AJA 110, 345-363); Cline 1987 (Orientalia 56, 1-36)

Apr. 23

Late Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades

B: 185-200
BCs: Preston 2008 (in CCABA)

Apr. 25

The Mycenaean Collapse

BCs: Maran 2006a (Ancient Greece ..., 123-150); Deger-Jalkotzy 2008 (in CCABA)

Apr. 30

Troy and the Trojan War

BCs: Bryce 2010 (in OHBAA)

May 2

The Dark Ages? 
Conclusions and lingering problems

BCs: Antonaccio 1994 (AJA 98, 389-410)

TERM PAPER DUE

May 13
11:30-2:30

Final Exam