CLASSICS 175C The Archaeology of Greek Sanctuaries
and Religion
The
listed readings
are to be done
before coming to the lecture.
GR refers
to Ancient Greek Religion
and GA to Greek
Architecture. CR refers to the course
reader.
| Class date | Lecture
topic |
Readings |
| Aug. M 29 |
Introduction | |
| W 31 | Sources,
Geography and History |
GR - Preface |
| Sept. F 2 word list |
Basics
of Greek Religion – the gods |
GR – ch. 2 |
| M 5 | Labor Day Holiday | |
| W 7 | Basics
of Greek Religion
– ritual |
GR – ch. 7; CR - Burkert "The temple in Classical Greece" |
| F 9 |
Basics
of Greek Religion
– sanctuary |
GR
– ch. 1; CR – Marinatos "What |
| M 12 word list |
Stone
Age to Bronze Age – caves and peaks |
GA – 8-12; CR - Dickinson "Religion" |
| W 14 | Crete and the Cyclades – towns and palaces | GA – 15-33 |
| F 16 word list |
Greeks
in the Bronze Age |
GA – ch. 7; CR - French "Cult places at Mycenae" |
| M 19 | Mycenaean Religion | CR – Wright "The spatial configuration of belief: the archaeology of Mycenaean Religion" |
| W 21 word list |
Dark Age – private and domestic | CR
– Antonaccio "Placing the past: the Bronze Age in the cultic
topography
of Early Greece" Odyssey Book XI |
| F
23 |
isolation, recovery and the dead | GA – 61-62 |
| F 30 word list |
local
to Pan-Hellenic |
GR
– ch. 5; CR – Morgan "The origins of pan-Hellenism" Pindar Olympian Ode |
| Oct. M 3 |
Hera
and the early sanctuaries |
GA
– 62-65 Pausanius on the Argive Heraion |
| W
5 word list |
temples
– architecture and
use |
GA
– ch. 10 and 77-81, ch. 12; CR
– Coldstream "Greek temples: why and where" Pausanius on Hera Temple, Olympia |
| F
7 |
TEST #1 | |
| M 10 word list |
Hero
cults; Zeus – early sanctuaries |
CR – Ekroth "Altars in Greek Hero Cults"; Evjen "The origins and functions of formal athletic competition in the Ancient World" |
| W 12 |
religion, festival and athletics | CR
– Cartledge "The Greek religious festivals
|
| F 14 word list |
Zeus - Olympia | GR
– 111-129; GA – 104-107; Bacchylides Odes Pindar Odes Pausanius on Olympia - begin here then click the arrows to keep reading through 5.16.1 |
| M 17 | Olympia con't | |
| W
19 word list |
Apollo
– early sanctuaries Delos |
CR – Tomlinson "Delos" |
| F 21 |
Apollo – Delphi | GR
– 99-111; CR – Sourvinou- Pausanius on Delphi - begin here then click the arrows to keep reading through 10.18.1 |
| M
24 |
Delphi con't | |
| W 26 | |
|
| F 28 | GR
– ch. 6 for your own information |
|
| M 31 | CR
– Maurizio "Anthropology and spirit possession" if it interests you .... |
|
|
Nov. |
Delphi and Poseidon at Isthmia | GR – 56-60; GA – ch. 16; CR – Gebhard "The evolution of a pan-Hellenic sanctuary" |
| F 4 word list |
Athena
– Acropolis
of Athens |
GR
– 62-65, 68-82; GA – 108-128; "Classical
Athens" and Osborne "The sculptures of the Parthenon" |
| M 7 | Panathenaia | |
| W 9 | TEST #2 | |
| F 11 | Veteran's Day Holiday | |
| W 16 word list |
Dionysus in the country and in the city | GR
– 60-62, 91-99; GA – ch. 24 Read the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus |
| F 18- M 21 word list |
Eleusis
and the Mysteries |
GR
– 82-90; CR – Clinton "The sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis" Read the Homeric Hymn to Demeter |
| Healing
sanctuaries and
Hellenistic
trends |
GR – ch. 8; GA – ch. 19 | |
| From Greek to Roman | CR – Alcock "Minding the gap in Hellenistic and Roman Greece" | |
| W 23 | no class – Happy Thanksgiving | |
| F 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| M 28 | class
reports: Mycenae and Aegina |
|
| W 30 | class
reports: Sounion (handout) and
Corinth |
|
| Dec. F 2 |
class
reports: Athenian Agora and Sparta (outline - Arsalan) |
|
| M 5 | class
reports: Nemea and Epidaurus (word list/plan) |
|
| W 7 | class
reports: Ephesus and Paestum |
|
| F 9 | From pagan to Christian | Research
Papers Due by 4:00 pm |
Thursday December 15th
12:30 – 3:30 Final Exam
