CLA 381: Daily Schedule and Readings

The goddess Athena, Pan-Athenaic amphora

Please prepare the reading assignments in anticipation of class discussion.

PART I: Overview of Greek archaeology, art and architecture

Week 1

Monday: Introduction and Prehistoric Greece

• Introduction to the course and trip
• geological formation of Greece
• plate tectonics
• PM: lab (Norton 303/308): rocks common in Greece
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth, pp. 1-8 (on reserve);

Tuesday: Bronze Age Greece

• Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece
• ancient trades and crafts
• The Archaeologist's task: pottery shapes and fabrics, typology and chronology
• PM: video: Sphakia Survey (Jennifer Moody and Lucia Nixon)
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth, pp. 8-10 (on reserve); Sparkes, Chs 3 and 11 (on Moodle); K. Greene, "Discovery, Fieldwork, and Recording," Ch 2 in Archaeology, An Introduction; Nick Cahill, The First Greeks: Minoan Art and Mycenean Art; Bruce Hartzler, slides of Minoan and Mycenean art; The Sphakia Survey: Internet Edition.

• Archaic and Classical Greece
• civic/public life: tha agora, gymnasium, assembly, theater
• The archaeologist's task: stratigraphy
• PM: video: "Myth, Man, and Metal: Bronze sculpture of Greece and Rome" (Carol Mattusch)
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth, pp. 10-12, 25-28, 34-36 (on reserve); Sparkes, Chs 4 and 7 (on Moodle); Kevin Greene, "Excavation"

• Hellenistic and Roman Greece
• Greek religion
• the archaeologist's task: architecture
• PM: video "Pandora's Box: The Roles of Women in Ancient Greece" (Ellen Reeder) or "The Age of Heroes", from Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth, pp. 13-17, 28-34; Sparkes, Ch 5; Mikalson, Ch 1; K. Greene, "Dating the Past".

• Departure for Greece from Mount Vernon (7:30 a.m.);
  arriving Athens (10:40 a.m. Saturday)
• Quiz on flight to Greece

• Propylaia, Parthenon, Erechtheum,
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth 46-65

Sunday: The Athenian Agora

• The Athenian Agora through the centuries; the Roman Agora
• The Kerameikos and Athenian burial customs
• Reading: Mee and Spawforth 65-76, 79-84; 36-42