CLA 3791 (2706) DR
CLA 3791 (2706) DR. K. HARTIGAN
M-W-F 4 / FLG 265 FALL 2006
ANCIENT CITIES: GREEK
Note: Assignments should be read in preparation for that week’s lectures & discussions. Thus be sure to look at all information listed for each week. You should bring the Reader to class to be able to refer to site plans.
1. August 23-25
Introduction. Minoan Civilization
Assignment: Site Plans: Knossos, Phaistos, Aghia Triada, Kato Zakro
& Gournia
.
2. August 28-30--Sept. 1
Minoan Civilization
Assignment: Reader: “Survey of Minoan Civilization,” Kazantzakis’ passage from Modern Odyssey, & Plato’s Timaeus selection.
3. September [4] - 6 - 8.
Minoan Civilization. Thira/Santorini. > In class film on Santorini.
* Slide Quiz 1 9/ 8
Introduction to Mycenaean Civilization.
Assignment: These were the Greeks (TWG): 4-36.
4. September 11-13-15
Mycenaean Civilization. Sites: Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos
Assignment: Reader Graham: “Mycenaean Architecture” and MacDonald, “The Palace of Nestor. Sites plans for Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos.
5. September 18-20-22.
Mycenaean Civilization.
* Slide Quiz 2 9/22
Introduction to Sanctuaries & Centers of Healing.
Assignment: TWG 212-213/220.
6. September 25-27-29.
Sanctuaries & Centers of Healing I. Sites: Olympia, Delphi
& Epidauros
Assignment: TWG: 59-92. & 147-150. Plans for Olympia, Delphi &
Epidauros.
7. October 2- 4 - [6]
Sanctuaries & Centers of Healing.
Assignment: Reader: Ashmole, “Temple of Zeus at Olympia.”
8. October 9 - 11 - 13]
* Slide Quiz 3. 10 / 09
Introduction to Town Planning & Construction.
Town Design, Construction Techniques & 3 “rival” cities.
Site plans: Miletus, Priene, Rhodes, Corinth, Sparta & Thebes.
Assignment: Reader: Stillwell, “The Siting of GreekTemples,” & Stambaugh “The Idea of a City,” Hartigan, “ "Urban Planning in Antiquity,” and TWG: 37-48
&117-128
9. October 16 - 18 - 20
Catch-up. Review
** HOUR TEST I Friday October 20
10. October 23-25-27
Athens I.
Assignment: Reader “Stambaugh, “Three Views of Athens” & TWG 93-116.
Site Plans
11. October 30 - November 1 - [3]
Athens II.
Paper topics due November 1 at class hour.
Assignment: Reader: Thompson & Wycherley, “Commercial, Domestic & Industrial Centers,”& TWG 129-168; site plans.
12. November 6 - 8 - [10]
Athens III
* Slide Quiz 4: 11/ 08
Alexander & Hellenistic Greece.
Assignment: Reader: Theocritus Idyll 15 and TWG 177-206
In class video: Be here to see it!
13. November 13-15-17
Alexander & Hellenistic Greece.
In class video
14. November 20-[22-24]
Paper due Monday November 20 at class hour.
In class video.
15. November 27-29- December 1
Byzantium & the Greek East
* Slide Quiz 5: Wednesday 11/29
Assignment: Reader: Arnott, “World of Byzantium.”
Site Plans.
16. December 4-6
Conclusions & Review
HOUR TEST II Wednesday December 06
Important Note: Class Outlines will be available on the Website for the course. Websites for the cities presented may be easily found; these will have many of the same illustrations as I present in the slides and may be helpful when you review for the tests.
Website for the class:
TO REVIEW: Ancient Cities Requirements
Slide Quizzes 5 @ 5% 25%
Hour Test I 25%
Paper 25%
Hour Test II 25%
Slide quizzes serve to reinforce your knowledge of the sites and as a review for the hour tests. Possible paper topics are listed in back of Reader. Details about this 8-10 pp. research paper will be given in class.
Dr. K. Hartigan
Office Hours: 3:00-4:30 Tues. & Wed. 135 Dauer
TA: Alyssa Henriquez
Office Hours: MWF 5th Period (11:45)
Syllabus Front page Illustration: Parthenon on Athenian Acropolis
Question: Is this the front or back of the temple?
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