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INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCL 1004: INTRODUCTION TO GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY
2016-17,
Year 1, Option, 0.5 unit
Course Turnitin ID: 3228619, Password: IoA1617
Deadlines for coursework: 10th November 2016, 11th January 2017
Coordinator:
Dr. Borja Legarra Herrero. Email: [email protected]
Office 207, tel. (0)20 7679 7534
Please see the last page of this document for important information about submission and marking
procedures, or links to the relevant webpages.
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1. OVERVIEW
Course content:
This course introduces students to the archaeology of the Greek world from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic and
Roman periods. The lectures are divided in sections, the first offering a set of frameworks for Greek archaeology;
the following sections deal, respectively, with the development of cities and settlements through time, religion and
cult, and cultural, social and economic practices.
Course summary:
(Term 1) Room 612, Fridays 11:00-13:00
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7 October
1-2: Introduction, time and space.
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14 October 3-4: Classical Archaeology yesterday and today (Essay 1 presentation)
21st October 19th October Room 612 2-4 pm 5-6: The Bronze Age / the Early Iron Age
28th October
7-8: From the Archaic polis to the Classical city
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4 November 9-10: Hellenistic and Roman Greece (in the BM, includes an introduction to the Greek collections
in the BM by curator Andrew Shapland)
(11th November – Reading Week)
18th November 11-12: The Greeks and their neighbours / Greek sanctuaries and religion
25th November 13-14: Gender and the Greek house / Death and burial
2nd December 15-16: warfare / Power, politics and society
9th December 14th December Room 209 12-2pm 17-18: Hands-on session (Rachael Sparks).
16th December 19-20: Trade and the economy / Conclusions. (Essay 2 presentation).
Basic texts
Alcock, S.E. and R. Osborne (eds) 2007. Classical Archaeology (IoA Yates A6 ALC, multiple copies)
Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (IoA YATES A20 WHI, multiple copies)
Methods of assessment: This course is assessed by two coursework standard essays: first essay is 2,500 words in
length (50% of the mark) and second essay is 2500 words in length (50% of the mark). A reasoned and critical
assessment of multiple sources is the learning outcome that is expected of standard essay.
Teaching methods: The course is taught by one 2-hour lecture session a week, one seminar at the British Museum
and one material handling session in which students will have the opportunity to explore Greek material culture
first-hand.
Workload: Class attendance: 20 hours. In addition, you are expected to devote about 168 hours to reading and to
preparing the essays. It is assumed by the lecturer that you will be doing this reading along with attending the
lectures, which are intended to be supplementary to such study, not a complete course in themselves.
Prerequisites: Available to first year students; also available to second year students. There are no prerequisites for
the course.
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2A. AIMS, OBJECTIVES
Aims:
The course aims to:
a)
Present a synthetic introduction of the archaeology and material culture of the Greek world from the Bronze
Age to the Roman period.
b)
Develop students' knowledge of the ecology and topography of the Greek world, the history of its
exploration and contemporary approaches to the archaeological record.
c)
Help develop students' understanding of the changing nature of Greek society from the Late Bronze Age to
later antiquity, including art and archaeology of religion, burial practices, political structure and broader
Mediterranean links.
d)
Equip students with basic skills to assess archaeological evidence and its relationship with other sources of
information with respect to the interpretation of the practices of everyday life, including the provision of
relevant "hands-on" use of archaeological material.
Objectives:
At the end of the course students will:
a)
Understand the basic aspects of the history of the Greek world, e.g. topography, chronology, historical
events, and its physical remains;
b)
Be familiar with the history of the subject and modern approaches in the field and study of the Greek world;
c)
Have acquired basic skills in identifying source material and bibliography.
Outcomes:
On successful completion of the course students should be able to demonstrate:
a)
Knowledge of the principal approaches to Greek archaeology as well as the main sites and corpora of
materials.
b)
Ability in reading, critically evaluation of alternative interpretations and presentation of reasoned
conclusions.
c)
Recognition of the linkages between data, methods and ideas.
d)
Skill at using archaeological data on its own or in conjunction with other types of evidence to construct
sound interpretations.
e)
Presenting information and ideas clearly in written form.
2B: ASSESSMENT
The assessed coursework consists of two essays. Both essays have a length of 2,500 words. For each, choose one
title from the two groups listed below (Coordinator is happy to consider essay topics outside the list provided
students contact him well in advance to discuss it). Readings should be drawn as appropriate primarily from
relevant parts of the lecture bibliographies.
The deadlines for the following assessment are as follows:
a)
b)
1st essay
2nd essay
Thursday 10th November 2016
Wednesday 11th January 2017
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Essay Options:
Options for first essay: 1st essay concerns the archaeological study of a site in Greece. Essay should a) a general
presentation of the site, b) its modern discovery and history of excavation, c) main features, d) discussion of the
main themes and debates related to the site, and e) consideration of the place of the site in our knowledge of Greek
history.
1.1 Athenian Agora
1.2 Knossos
1.3 Royal tombs at Vergina
1.4 Naukratis
1.5 Pythecussae
1.6 Kerameikos, Athens
1.7 Olympia
1.8 Uluburun Shipwreck
Options for second essay
2.1 How different was the role of the palace in Mycenaean societies from Minoan ones?
2.2 To what extent does the site of Lefkandi challenge the concept of a Greek ‘dark age’?
2.3 How can we combine Homeric texts and archaeology to learn more about elite behaviour in Greek society?
What are the difficulties with such an approach?
2.4 How easily can we identify the beginnings of hoplite fighting in the Greek world and why is important?
2.5 What can burial evidence contribute to the study of Athenian society during the Archaic and Classical
periods?
2.6 What kind of evidence does the site of Delphi provide to study the relationship between Greek poleis?
2.7 Can the architecture and plan of the polis help us to understand changes in the political structure of the city
from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period?
2.8 What can the evidence from shipwrecks tell us about ancient Greek trade that other approaches cannot?
What are the limitations?
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If students are unclear about the nature of an assignment, they should discuss this with the course co-ordinator.
Students may be permitted, in advance of the deadline for a given assignment, to submit for comment a brief
outline of the assignment. The course co-ordinator is willing to discuss an outline of the student's approach to
the assignment, provided this is planned suitably in advance of the submission date.
Word-Count
The following should not be included in the word-count: title page, contents pages, lists of figure and tables,
abstract, preface, acknowledgements, bibliography, lists of references, captions and contents of tables and
figures, appendices.
Essay 1: 2375-2625 words
Essay 2: 2375-2625 words
Penalties will only be imposed if you exceed the upper figure in the range. There is no penalty for using fewer
words than the lower figure in the range: the lower figure is simply for your guidance to indicate the sort of
length that is expected.
In the 2016-17 session penalties for overlength will be as follows:
For work that exceeds the specified maximum length by less than 10% the mark will be reduced by five
percentage marks, but the penalised mark will not be reduced below the pass mark, assuming the work
merited a Pass.
For work that exceeds the specified maximum length by 10% or more the mark will be reduced by ten
percentage marks, but the penalised mark will not be reduced below the pass mark, assuming the work
merited a Pass.
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3. SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
Course co-ordinator: Dr. Borja Legarra Herrero (BLH),
Office Hours: Borja Legarra Herrero, room 207, Open door policy; or by arrangement (e-mail [email protected])
Participant lecturer: Dr. Rachael Sparks (RS), Dr. Andrew Shapland (AS).
Lecture Schedule: Fridays 11-1, Room 612, Institute of Archaeology. Please note that Sessions 9-10 will take
place in the British Museum and Sessions 17-18 are a seminar instead of a lecture that takes places in Room 209.
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Syllabus
Term 1, Room 612, Friday 11-13.00
07/10/16
1. Introduction: the Greek world and archaeology (BLH)
Course organisation and objectives. This lecture introduces the course by looking at how archaeology can help us
understand the familiar, yet exotic world of the Greeks.
Essential Readings
Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece . Chapters 1 and 3
Osborne, R. 2004. Greek History, ch 1 (“Familiar but exotic. Why Greece needs history”) (AH P5 OSB and
available online through online reading list)
Recommended
Etienne, R. and F. 1992. The Search for Ancient Greece (A8 ETI)
2. Space and time in the study of the Greek world (BLH)
Ancient Greek life and history were deeply embedded in the landscapes of the Aegean and wider Mediterranean.
This lecture introduces the physical framework and ecological conditions that shaped ancient practices (from eating
to fighting), and also provided opportunities for trade and mobility.
Essential Readings
Osborne, R. G. 1987. Classical Landscape with Figures: The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside, Chapter 2
(AH P58 OSB and available online through online reading list)
Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Chapter 4
Recommended
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (IA unclassified), also to be found at
http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (E2 PRI)
Also: http://ancient-greece.org/map.html
Biers, W. 1993. Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology (IA AJ10 BIE)
Bintliff, J. 2012. Chapter 1: The dynamic land. In J. Bintliff, The Complete Archaeology of Greece. From huntergatherers to the 20th century. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 11-27.
Foxhall L., Jones M. and Forbes H. 2007. Human ecology and the classical landscape. In S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne
(eds.), Classical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology), 91-117. Oxford: Blackwell (IA
Yates A6 ALC)
Garnsey, P. 1988. Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World; Responses to Risk and Crisis, Parts I-II,
and III (Athenian case-study) if time (AH M67 GAR)
Gallant, T.W. 1991. Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece, Chapter 1 (AH P67 GAL and available
online
through online reading list)
Grove, A.T. & O. Rackham 2001. The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History (IA issue desk GRO),
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especially Chapters 1-6, 9-11
Halstead, P. 1987. "Traditional and ancient rural economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ça
change?",
Journal of Hellenic Studies 107, pp. 77-87 (IA Pers and online)
Horden, P & N. Purcell 2000 The Corrupting Sea. A Study of Mediterranean History especially Chapter VI, and III-V
if time allows (IA DAG 200 HOR)
Kotsonas, A. 2016. Politics of Periodization and the Archaeology of Early Greece. American Journal of Archaeology,
120(2), 239-270.
Rackham, O. 1990. "Ancient landscapes", pp. 85-111 in O. Murray and S. Price (eds) The Greek City from Homer to
Alexander (AH P61 MUR and available online through online reading list)
Sparkes, B. 1991. Greek Pottery: an Introduction (P5 SPA), pp. 28-59 "Dating"
14/10/16
3. Classical Archaeology, yesterday and today (BLH)
An overview of (i) the re-discovery of the Greek world and development of archaeology within the Classical Tradition,
and (ii) the challenge to this from the 1980s by the New Archaeology and Art History, plus other recent paradigms.
Essential Reading
Morris, I. 2000. Archaeology as Cultural History: words and things in Iron Age Greece, Chapter 2
('Archaeologies of Greece'), 37-76. (A20 MOR, with copy at issue desk and available online through
online reading list)
Renfrew, A.C. 1980. ‘The great tradition versus the great divide: archaeology as anthropology’, American
Journal of Archaeology 84: 287-98. (IA Pers and online)
Recommended
Etienne, R. 1992. The Search for Ancient Greece. (A8 ETI)
Hamilakis, Y. & E. Yalouri 1996. ‘Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society’, Antiquity 70: 11729 (online)
Johnston, A. W. 1976. The Emergence of Greece, ch 2. (A24 JOH and available online through online reading
list)
Morris, I. 1994. "Archaeologies of Greece", pp. 3-47 in I. Morris (ed.) Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and
Modern Archaeologies (A20 MOR)
Pausanias, Description of Greece. Taste it. Best read in the Loeb edition - the most important "archaeological
book of antiquity". (Classics GD30 PAU and available online through online reading list)
Shanks, M. 1995. Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline, especially Chapters 3-6 (IA
AG SHA)
Snodgrass, A.M. 1985. “The new archaeology and the classical archaeologist”, American Journal of Archaeology
89, 31-7 (online)
Whitley, J. The archaeology of Ancient Greece. Chapter 2.
4. Classical Archaeology today: case studies (BLH)
Building on the previous lecture, this session provides an illustration of the range, potential and application of new
approaches through case studies involving excavation, field survey, iconography and use of text. Also it will look into
the impact of Greek culture in the modern world.
Essential Reading
Beard, M. 1991. "Adopting an approach", in T. Rasmussen and N. Spivey (eds) Looking at Greek Vases, pp. 1-35
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(P5 RAS and available online through online reading list)
Davis, J. 2007. Doing Archaeology in the Classical lands. The Greek world. In S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds.),
Classical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology), 53-70.
Hall, J. 2014. Artifact and Artifice. Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian. Chapter 5. Sokrates in the
Athenian Agora, 77-94
Recommended
Alcock, S.E. & J.F. Cherry (eds.) 2004. Side-by-side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean
World, especially papers by Alcock & Cherry, Davis, and Osborne. Oxford: Oxbow Books (IA DAG 100
QTO ALC)
Bérard, C. (ed.) 1989. A City of Images (A70 CIT) Chapters 1-2 and select one or two case studies from 3-10
Cherry, J. F. 1983. "Frogs around the pond: perspectives on current archaeological survey projects in the
Mediterranean region", in D. R. Keller and D.W. Rupp (eds) Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean
Area (British Archaeological Reports International Series 155, pp. 375-416 (E5 KEL; IA DAG 100 Qtos KEL
and available online through online reading list)
Jamieson C. Donati, & Apostolos Sarris. (2016). Evidence for Two Planned Greek Settlements in the Peloponnese
from Satellite Remote Sensing. American Journal of Archaeology, 120(3), 361-398.
Nevett, L. 1999. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World, Chapter 4 ('The city of Olynthos: a detailed
case-study in domestic organisation'), 53-79 (K71 NEV and available online through online reading list)
Snodgrass, A.M. 1986. 'Interaction by design: the Greek city state', in A.C. Renfrew & J.F. Cherry (eds.) Peer Polity
Interaction and Socio-political Change, 47-58 (IA AH REN)
Snodgrass, A. M. 1987. An Archaeology of Greece; the Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline, Chapter 3
(A20 SNO)
Sparkes, B. 1996. The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery, esp. Chaps 1 & 6 (P5 SPA)
Stoddart, S. and J. Whitley. 1988. ‘The social context of literacy in archaic Greece and Etruria’, Antiquity 62,
761-72 (online)
van Andel, T.J. & C. Runnels 1987. Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past, especially Introduction, Chapters 1-2,
6-9 (IA DAE 100 AND; AH P567 VAN).
Whitelaw, T. (2012). Collecting Classical cities: Prospects and problems (pp. In: Millett, M and Johnson, P, (eds.)
Archaeological Survey and the City. (pp. 70-106). Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK. (2012)). Oxbow Books.
21st October 19/10/16 Room 612 2-4 pm 5. The Bronze Age: Minoan and Mycenaean palace-states
(BLH)
An overview of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on the development of complex societies in Minoan Crete and
Mycenaean Greece during the 2nd millennium BCE.
Essential Reading
Parkinson, W. A., & Galaty, M. L. (2007). Secondary States in Perspective: An Integrated Approach to State
Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean. American Anthropologist, 109(1), 113-129.
Schoep, I. (2002). The state of the Minoan palaces or the Minoan palace-state in Driessen, J. Schoep, I. Laffineur,
R Monuments of Minos. Rethinking the Minoan Palaces. Proceedings of the International Workshop
"Crete of the Hundred Palaces?" held at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 14-15
December 2001 pp. 15-33. Liège: Université de Liège. historie de l'art et archéologie de la Gréce antique.
I will provide this paper.
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Recommended
Cline, E. H. (ed) 2010. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC), see chapters 7, 8, 10,
11,(IA CLI 2).
Shelmerdine, C. (ed) 2008. The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, see chapters 7, 10, 12. (IA DAG
100 SHE).
Chadwick, J. 1976. The Mycenaean World, esp. Chapters 2, 5-8 (A22 CHA; IA DAG100 CHA)
Cherry, J.F. 1986. "Polities and palaces: some problems in Minoan state-formation", in A.C. Renfrew & J. Cherry
(ed) Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change, 19-45 (REN 10 and available online through
online reading list)
Dickinson, O.T.P.K. 1994. The Aegean Bronze Age, esp. Introduction and chapter 4 (IA DAE 100 DIC)
Doumas, C. 1983. Thera: Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean, Chapters 4-5 (IA DAG 10 DOU)
Duhoux, Y., Davies, Anna Morpurgo, Duhoux, Y., & Mycenaean Colloquium. (2008). A companion to Linear B :
Mycenaean Greek texts and their world. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Peeters. INST ARCH DAE 100
DUH (3 volumes).
Legarra Herrero, B. (2016). Primary State Formation Processes on Bronze Age Crete: A Social Approach to
Change in Early Complex Societies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-19.
Myers, J.W., E.E. Myers and G. Cadogan 1992. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (E10 MYE); superb aerial
photographs of many Minoan sites.
6. The Early Iron Age and Homeric epic (BLH)
The Early Iron Age follows the collapse of Mycenaean palatial societies c. 1200 BC. It was also a key period for the
formation of Homeric epic, but how much earlier and later are some of the latter’s elements, and how do we
integrate evidence derived from archaeology and oral poetry?
Essential Reading
Sherratt, E. S. 1990. 'Reading the texts': archaeology and the Homeric question, Antiquity 64, 807-24 (online)
Whitley, J.M. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece, chapter 5 (A 20 WHI and available online through online
reading list)
Recommended
Bennet, J. 1997. 'Homer and the Bronze Age', in I. Morris & B. Powell (eds.) A New Companion to Homer, 511-34
(Classics GN10 MOR)
Finley, M.I. 1979. The World of Odysseus. (2nd revised edition, Classics GN10 FIN)
Mazarakis-Ainian, A. 1997 From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples. Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron
Age Greece (1100-700 B. C.), pgs. 48-57 on Lefkandi, pgs. 74-80 on
Nichoria, pgs. 85-86 on
Emborio Chios, 358-374 on ‘Homeric questions’ (DAG Qto
series STU 121)
Morris, I. 1986. "The use and abuse of Homer", Classical Antiquity 5, 81-138 (online through online reading list)
Morris, I. 2000. Archaeology as Cultural History (as above), Chapters 3-7
Osborne, R.G. 1996 (or 2009 2nd ed.). Greece in the Making: 1200-479 BC, Chapters 2 and 4-5 (IA DAE 200 OSB,
AH P5 OSB)
Popham, M.R. 1987. 'Lefkandi and the Greek Dark Age', in B. Cunliffe (ed.) Origins: the Roots of European
Civilisation, 67-80 (IA DA 100 CUN and available online through online reading list)
Snodgrass, A.M. 1974. "A historical Homeric society?" Journal of Hellenic Studies 94, 114-25 (online)
Snodgrass, A.M. 1987. An Archaeology of Greece (as above) Chapter 6 ('The Early Iron Age of
Greece')
Whitley, J. 1988. 'Early states and hero cults: a re-appraisal', Journal of Hellenic Studies 108: 173-82. (online)
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Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. Homer's entangled objects: narrative, agency and personhood in and out of Iron Age
texts. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3), pp. 395-416
28/10/16
7. Archaic Greece: the Rise of the Polis (BLH)
What is a polis and when did it emerge? This lecture looks at urbanization and what this means in the Greek world.
The role of Greek settlements outside the Aegean in fostering an overarching Greek identity linked to the polis will
also be explored as well as the problems with the term ‘colonisation’.
Essential Reading
Morris, I. 1991 The early polis as city and state in J. Price and A. Wallace-Hadrill (eds) City and country in the
ancient world, 25-57 (K 100 RIC; Issue Desk and available online through online reading list)
Polignac, F. de 2005 Forms and Processes: some Thoughts on the Meaning of Urbanization in Early Archaic
Greece in B. Cunliffe and R. Osborne (eds) Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC, 45-69 (IA DAG 100
OSB and available online through online reading list)
Recommended
Angelis, F. de. 1994. The foundation of Selinous in G. Tsetschladze and F. de Angelis eds. The Archaeology of
Greek Colonisation, 87-110 (A20 TSE)
Angelis, F. de 2002 Trade and Agriculture at Megara Hyblaia in Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21.3, 299-310
(IA Pers and online)
Carter, J.C. 1990 Metapontum: land, wealth and population in J-P. Descouedres (ed.) Greek Colonists
and
Native Populations, 405-441 (A6 AUS)
Hägg, R. (ed) 1983 The Greek Renaissance of the Eighth Century BC (A22 HAG)
Malkin, I. 2003 Networks and the emergence of Greek identity in Mediterranean Historical Review 182, pgs 5674 (History Pers and online)
Morgan, C. M.1990 Athletes and Oracles, esp ch 1, pp. 1-25 (AH P74 MOR)
Morris, I. 1997 The art of citizenship in S. Langdon (ed.) New light on a dark age. Exploring the culture of
geometric Greece, 9-43 (AH P 11 LAN)
Osborne, R. 1998 Early Greek Colonization? The nature of Greek settlements in the West in N. Fisher & H.
van Wees (eds) Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence,
251-269 (AH P 12 FIS and
available online through online reading list)
Owens, E. D. 1991 The City in the Greek and Roman World, ch 1-3, pp. 1-50 (K100 OWE and Issue Desk)
Polignac, F. de 1995 Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek City State (AH P60 POL)
Raaflaub, K. A. and H. van Wees (eds.). 2009. A Companion to Archaic Greece, Wiley. (online).
Snodgrass, A. M. 1991 Archaeology and the study of the Greek city in J. Price and A. Wallace-Hadrill (eds) City
and country in the ancient world, 1-23 (K 100 RIC and Issue Desk)
8. Classical Greece: the City states, architecture and competition (BLH)
The politics of a polis' appearance: what factors determined the growth of towns and their more public buildings in
the fifth to fourth century?
Essential Readings
Hölscher, T. 1998. Images and political identity, in D. Boedeker and K. A. Raaflaub (eds) Democracy, empire,
and the arts in fifth-century Athens, 153-183 (AH P 21 BOE)
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Whitley, J.M. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece, chapter 13 (A 20 WHI and available online through
online reading list)
Recommended
Camp. J. 1986. The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens (E12 ATH)
Camp, J. 2010. The Athenian agora. Site guide. (INST ARCH YATES E12 ATH).
Hölscher, T. 1991. "The city of Athens: space, symbol, structure", pp. 355-380 in R. Molho et al (eds) City States
in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy, 355-80 (AH M60 MOL)
Larson, M. S. 1994. "How should we look at buildings? A preliminary reflection on
the sociology of
architectural objects", Culture - ASA Newsletter (and available online through online reading list)
Lagia, A. (2015). The Potential and Limitations of Bioarchaeological Investigations in Classical Contexts in
Greece: An Example from the Polis of Athens. Classical Archaeology in Context (pp. 149-174). Berlin,
Boston: DE GRUYTER (Online).
Martin-Mcauliffe, S. L. and J. K. Papadopoulos (2012). Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and the
Agora. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71(3): 332-361. (ONLINE)
Martin, R. 1956. L' Urbanisme dans la Grèce Antique, esp. pp. 97-126 (K110 MAR)
Shear, T. L. jr. 1994. “Isonomous t’ Athenas epoiesaten - the Agora and the Democracy”, pp.
225-248 in
W.D.E. Coulson ed. The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (A25 Quartos COU and
available online through online reading list)
Wycherley, R. E. 1976. How the Greeks Built Cities: the Relationship of Architecture and Town
Planning
to
Everyda Life in Ancient Greece, pp. 1-35 (K110 WYC and partly available line through online reading list)
04/11/16
9. Hellenistic and Roman Greece: the Impact of Empires (BLH, AS)
This seminar will take place in the British Museum (details TBA). The lecture will start with an introduction to the
Greek collections in the BM. After that, there will be an overview of the physical development and political and
economic role of Greek cities and settlements in the kingdoms of Alexander the Great's successors and in the
provinces of the Roman Empire. After the lecture the class will continue with a guided tour of the Hellenistic and
Roman galleries in the BM.
Essential Reading
Alcock, S. 1993. Graecia Capta: the Landscapes of Roman Greece, pp. 1-32,
33-92, 93-128, 172-214 (detailed analysis of evidence for rural settlement based on several recent
surveys) (AH P18 ALC)
Robertson M. 1993. What is ‘Hellenistic’ about Hellenistic Art? In P. Green (ed.) Hellenistic History and Culture,
67-110 (AH P6 GRE and available online through online reading list)
Recommended
Alcock, S. 1997 Greece: a landscape of resistance? In D. J. Mattingly (ed.) Dialogues in Roman
imperialism : power, discourse, and discrepant experience in the Roman Empire, 103-115 (AH R 61
MAT and available online through online reading list)
Cartledge P. and A. Spawforth 1989. Hellenistic and Roman Sparta. A Tale of Two Cities (AH P29 CAR)
Empereur J-Y. 1998. Alexandria Rediscovered (Egyptology Qto E100 EMP and Issue Desk)
Erskine, A. (2003). A companion to the Hellenistic world (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient
history). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Online)
Habicht C. 1997. Athens from Alexander to Antony (AH P21 HAB)
Leriche P. 2003 The Greeks in the Orient: from Syria to Bactria in V. Karageorghis (ed.) The Greeks beyond
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the Aegean. From Marseilles to Bactria, 78-127 (AH P61 KAR)
Mairs, R. (2014). The Hellenistic Far East : Archaeology, language, and identity in Greek Central
Asia. University of California Press (INST ARCH DBH MAI).
Margaritis, E. (2015). Cultivating Classical Archaeology: Agricultural Activities, Use of Space and Occupation
Patterns in Hellenistic Greece.Classical Archaeology in Context (pp. 333-354). Berlin, Boston: DE
GRUYTER.
Prag, J. R. W. and Quinn, J. C. eds, 2013.The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean.
Cambridge University Press. Online
Shipley G. 2000. The Greek World after Alexander (P17 SHI)
Spawforth, A.J. and S. Walker, 1985 and 1986. "The world of the Panhellenion, I and II", Journal of Roman Studies
75, 78-105; 76, 88-106 (online)
Stewart A. 1993. Faces of Power. Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics (AH P16 STE)
Thompson, F., and S. Macready, (eds) 1987. Roman Architecture in the Greek World, pp. 1-17 (H. Thompson on
Athens), 26-37 (C. Williams on Corinth) (K6 MAC)
[11/11/16 no class – Reading Week]
18/11/16
11. The Greeks and their neighbours, (BLH)
The Greeks traded, travelled and settled all over the Mediterranean. This lecture introduces the Greek world outside
the Aegean, and the non-Greek world that the Greeks encountered and interacted with. The importance of links
beyond the Aegean and how archaeology can shed light on those links will be explored. It explores in more depth
the Greek encounter with non-Greeks and Greek constructions of them as ‘other’ (barbarians and orientals). The
important debate on the role of the ‘other’ in shaping Hellenism and of outside influence in the formation of Greek
culture will be explored through archaeological evidence
Essential Reading
Burgers, G-J 2004. Western Greeks in their regional setting: rethinking early Greek indigenous encounters in
southern Italy, Ancient West and East 3: 252-82. [photocopy available in the Library on short loan].
Hodos, T. 2009. Colonial Engagements in the Global Mediterranean Iron Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal
19.2: 221-41. [available as e-journal]
Morris S. 2007 Greeks and “Barbarians” in S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds) Classical Archaeology, 383-400
(available online through online reading list)
Recommended
Arafat K. & Morgan C. 1994 Athens, Etruria and the Heuneburg: mutual misconceptions in the study of Greekbarbarian relations in I. Morris (ed) Classical Greece. Ancient histories and modern archaeologies, pgs
108-134 (A 20 MOR; Issue Desk and available online through online reading list)
Boardman, J. 1980. The Greeks Overseas (2nd edition and new 1999 edition at Issue Desk; A24
BOA and
elsewhere)
Boardman, J. 1990. Al Mina and History in Oxford Journal of Archaeology vol. 9.2, 169-189 (IA Pers and
available online through online reading list)
D’Agostino B. 2006 The first Greeks in Italy in G. R. Tsetskhladze (ed.) Greek colonisation. An account of Greek
colonies and other settlements overseas, pgs. 201-237 (AH P 61 TSE)
Kopcke, G. and I. Tokumaru 1992 Greece between East and West, 10th-8th centuries BC, pgs. 1-6 (‘Introduction’
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by S. Morris), 93-102 (‘Asia Minor as bridge between East and West’ by W. Röllig), 61-84 (‘In Pursuit
of Metal: Phoenicians and Greeks in Italy by G. Markoe) (IA DAG 100 Qto KOP)
Dietler M. 1997 The Iron Age in Mediterranean France. Colonial Encounters, Entanglements, and
Transformations in Journal of World Prehistory 11, 269-358 (IA Pers and online)
Domínguez, A.J. 2002. Greeks in Iberia: colonialism without colonization, in C. Lyons and J. Papadopoulos
(eds.) The Archaeology of Colonialism, Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 65-95. (AH LYO).
Dominguez A. J. 2006 Greeks in Sicily G R Tsetskhladze (ed.) Greek colonisation. An account of Greek colonies
and other settlements overseas, pgs. 252-357 (AH P 61 TSE)
Hall, J. 2009. Ethnicity and Cultural exchange. Raaflaub, K. A. and van Wees, H. Companion to Archaic Greece,
A. Wiley. 604-17. (AH P12 RAA).
Hodos, T. 2006 Local responses to colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (IA DAG 100 HOD)
Izzet, V. 2007. Greeks Make It; Etruscans Fecit: the Stigma of Plagiarism in the Reception of Etruscan Art.
Etruscan Studies 10, 223-237 (IoA pers.)
Malkin, I. 2002 A Colonial Middle Ground: Greek, Etruscan and local elites in the Bay of Naples, in C.L.
Lyons & J.K. Papadopoulos (eds) The Archaeology of Colonialism, Getty Research Institute, LA, 151181 TC 3221. (IA AH LYO)
Morris S. 1992 Daidalos and the origins of Greek Art, ch 5 (A 20 MOR)
Morris, S. 2006 The view from East Greece: Miletus, Samos and Ephesus in C. Riva and N. Vella (eds) Debating
orientalization. Multidisciplinary approaches to processes of change in the ancient Mediterranean,
66-84 (IA DAG 100 RIV and available online through online reading list)
Osborne, R. 1993 ‘À la grecque. A review of W. Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence
on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (1992), and S.P. Morris, Daidalos and the Origins of Greek
Art (1992)’. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 6(2), 231-237 (IA Pers and available online
through online reading list)
Osborne, R. 2009. What Travelled with Greek Pottery? In I. Malkin, C. Constantakopoulou and K.
Panagopoulou (eds.). Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean. London, Routledge: 83-93.
(AH A 57 MAL).
Niemeyer, H.G. 2006. The Phoenicians in the Mediterranean. Between expansion and colonisation: a non-Greek
model of overseas settlement and presence in G. R. Tsetskhladze (ed.) Greek colonisation. An account
of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas, pgs. 143-168 (AH P 61 TSE)
Pugliese Carratelli, G. ed. 1996 The Western Greeks: Classical Civilization in the Western Mediterranean. An
excellent collection of photos of sites and material and plans of Greek settlements in the ‘west’;
however, the text is often poorly translated (A20 Qto PUG)
Purcell, N. 1990. "Mobility and the polis", pp. 29-58 in O. Murray and S. Price (eds) The Greek City from Homer
to Alexander (AH P61 MUR). TC 570
Tsetskhladze G. R. 1994 Greek penetration of the Black Sea in in G. R. Tsetskhladze & F. De Angelis (eds) The
Archaoelogy of Greek Colonization. Essays dedicated to Sir John Boardman, 111-135 (A 20 TSE and
available online through online reading list)
On Bernal's Black Athena a good set of views is set out in:
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3:1 (1990) 'Discussion and Debate', 53-137. See also: Lefkowitz, M.R. &
G.M. Rogers (ed.) 1996. Black Athena Revisited (AH P72 LEF)
12. Greek Sanctuaries and religion (BLH)
An overview of the ways in which the divine was represented, from humble votives to colossi. What happened in a
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temple, or a temenos? This lecture will look at the development of sanctuaries, and the differences amongst local,
"national" and panhellenic centres. It will also deal with the various spectacles, rites and mysteries that went on at
the sanctuaries. The lack of division between religion and other social activities will also be examined.
Essential Reading
Morgan, C. 1993. The origins of pan-Hellenism in Marinatos, in N. and R. Hägg (eds) Greek Sanctuaries: New
Approaches, 18-44 (K45 HAG)
Polignac, F. de 1994. ‘Mediation, competition and sovereignty: the evolution of rural sanctuaries in
Geometric Greece’, in R. Osborne and S. Alcock (eds) Placing the Gods, 3-18 (AH P74 ALC and available
online through online reading list)
Recommended
Barrett, C. E. 2015 Material evidence in Eidinow, E. and Kindt, J. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek
Religion. Oxford University Press. Online.
Bruit Zaidman, L. and Schmitt Pantel, P. 1992 Religion in the ancient Greek city (tr. P. Cartledge 1992) (AH P
74 ZAI)
Burkert, W. 1985. Greek Religion (AH P74 BUR)
Coldstream, J. N.2003. Geometric Greece, chapter 13 (A22 COL and available online through online reading list)
Garland, R. 1994. Religion and the Greeks. Short introduction with bibliography (AH P74)
Glowacki, K. 1998. "The acropolis of Athens before 566 BC" in Stephanos 79-88 (A6 RID)
Hurwit, J. 1999. The Acropolis of Athens - reliable overview (E12 ATH)
Morgan C.A. 1990 Athletes and oracles. The transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century B.C, chs
1-4, 6 (AH P 74 MOR)
Morgan, C. 1993. The origins of pan-Hellenism in Marinatos, in N. and R. Hägg (eds) Greek Sanctuaries: New
Approaches, 18-44 (K45 HAG)
Morgan C.A. 1994 ‘The evolution of a Sacral ‘Landscape’: Isthmia, Perachora, and the Early
Corinthian
State’, in S. Alcock, R. Osborne, eds., Placing the Gods. Sanctuaries and sacred space in ancient
Greece, 105-42 (AH P74 ALC DAE and IA 100 ALC)
Osborne, R. 2000. Archaic and Classical Greek temple sculpture and the viewer in K. Rutter and B.A. Sparkes
(eds) Words and image in ancient Greece, 228-246 (A70 RUT and available online through online
reading list)
Mikalson, J. (2009). Ancient Greek religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ANCIENT HISTORY P 74 MIK
Parker, R. 1996. Athenian Religion: a History (AH P74 PAR)
Pedley, J. (2005). Sanctuaries and the sacred in the ancient Greek world. New York: Cambridge University
Press. ANCIENT HISTORY P 74 PED.
Price, R.F. 1999 Religions of the ancient Greeks (AH P 74 PRI)
Ridgway, B. S. 1992. "Images of Athena on the Acropolis", pp. 119-142 in J. Neils. ed. Goddess and Polis: the
Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (A50 NEI)
Scott, M. (2010). Delphi and Olympia: The spatial politics of panhellenism in the archaic and classical periods.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ANCIENT HISTORY P 37 SCO
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. 1990. "What is polis religion?" in O. Murray and S. Price (eds) The Greek City, pp. 295-332
(AH P61 MUR)
Sorvinou-Inwood, C. 1993. Early sanctuaries, the eighth century and ritual space in N. and R. Hägg (eds) Greek
Sanctuaries: New Approaches, 1-17 (K45 HAG)
Steiner, D.T. 2001 Images in mind: statues in archaic and classical Greek literature and thought, ch 2–
ancient thinking about statues (M 115 STE)
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Stewart, A. 1990. Greek sculpture. An exploration (Quartos M 20 STE)
Swaddling, J. 1980. The Ancient Olympic Games (AH P80 SWA)
Tomlinson, R. A. 1976. Greek Sanctuaries (K45 TOM)
Wallensten, J., & Ekroth, Gunnel, editor. (2013). Bones, behaviour and belief : The zooarchaeological evidence as
a source for ritual practice in ancient Greece and beyond (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen.
4o ; 55). INST ARCH BB 3 EKR
25/11/16
13. Gender and the Greek house
We will explore ideas of femininity and masculinity in the Greek word and how they helped to structure several
aspects of Greek society. The lecture will put particular attention to the form and function of the Greek house and
the way it helps to reveal gender identities
Essential Reading
Antonaccio, C.M. 2000. Architecture and Behaviour: Building Gender into Greek Houses, The Classical World,
vol.93.5, 517-533.
Foxhall, L. 2013 Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Chapter 1.
Recommended
Davidson, J. 2011 Bodymaps: sexing place and zooming gender in ancient Athens. Gender and History 23.3, 597-614.
Foxhall, L. and Salmon, J. 1998. When men were men: masculinity, power and identity in classical antiquity. London
Lewis, s. 2002. The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook. Routledge. Chapter 1.
Nevett, L. 2011 Towards a female topography of the ancient Greek City: case studies for late archaic and early
classical Athens (c. 520-400 BCE). Gender and History 23.3, 576-96.
Rotroff, S. I and Lamberton, R. D. 2006. Women in the Athenian Agora. ASCSA
Saller. R. P. 2007. Household an gender in Scheidel, W., Morris, I. and Saller, R (eds.). The Cambridge Economic
History of the Greco/Roman world. Cambridge, 87-112.
Stears, K., 1995. Dead Women’s Society: Constructing female gender in Classical Athenian funerary sculpture in N.
Spencer (ed.) Time, Tradition, and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the “Great Divide” London. 109131
Walker, S. 1983. ‘Women and housing in Classical Greece: the archaeological evidence’, in Cameron, A. and Kuhrt,
A. eds. Images of Women in Antiquity. pp. 81-91.
Greek house and gender
Ault, B. A. and Nevett, L. C. (eds.) 2005. Ancient Greek houses and households. Chronological, Regional and Social
Diversity. University of Pennsylvania Press. (most contributions are quite good).
Hoepfner, W. and E.-L. Schwandner, 1986, and revised edition 1994. Haus und Stadt in
klassischen Griechenland. Excellent graphics (K100 HOE)
Jameson, M. H. 1990. "Domestic space in the Greek city-state", pp. 92-113 in S. Kent ed.
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space (IoA KO KEN and available online through
online
reading list)
Lawrence, A. W. 1983. Greek Architecture (K5 LAW), pp. 315-331 "Residential buildings".
Nevett, L., 1999. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World (K71 NEV)
Nevett, L. 2007. House and Households. The Greek World in Alcock, S. E. and Osborne, R. (ed.) Classical
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Archaeology. Wiley Blackwell. 209-227.
Nevett, L. 2010. Domestic space in classical antiquity. Cambridge..
Robinson, D.M. and J.W. Graham, 1938. Excavations at Olynthos VIII. The Greek House
Robinson, D.M. 1946. Excavations at Olynthus XII. Domestic and Public Architecture (E32
OLY)
Cahill, N. 2001 Household and City Organisation at Olynthus, New Haven, esp. ch. 2-5 (E 32 OLY and available
online through online reading list)
Wycherley, R. E. 1962. How the Greeks Built Cities (K110 WYC), pp. 175-97 "The Greek
house"
14. Death and Burial (BLH)
This lecture will look at the ways in which the ancient Greeks dealt with death, the development of burial rituals and
how death can tell us much about the society of the living.
Essential Reading
Leader, R.E. 1997. “In death not divided: gender, family, and status on classical Athenian grave stelae,”
American Journal of Archaeology 101: 683-699 (IA Pers and online)
Morris, I. 1992. Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, pp. 1-30, 70-102, 103-127, 128-155 (all
recommended) (AH M55 MOR)
Recommended
Andronicos, M. 1984. Vergina: the Royal Tombs (E12 VER; IA DAE 10 AND)
Garland, R. 1985. The Greek Way of Death (AH P74 GAR)
Kurtz, D.C.K, 1984. “Vases for the Dead, an Attic Selection: 750-400 BC.” In Ancient Greek and Related Pottery,
edited by H.A.G. Brijder, 314-328 (Quartos P 6 INT)
Legarra Herrero, B. 2015. What happens when Tombs die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze
Age Cemeteries. In Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L, and Wheatley, D (eds.) The lives of
Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 265-286.
Legarra Herrero, B. 2012. Cemeteries and the construction, deconstruction and non-construction of hierarchical
societies in Early Bronze Age Crete. In, I. Schoep, P. Tomkins and J. Driessen (eds) Back to the Beginning:
Reassessing social, economic and political complexity in the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete.
Oxbow Books. 325-357.
Morris, I. 1987. Burial and Ancient Society: the Rise of the Greek City State (A22 MOR; IA DAE 100 MOR)
Oakley, J. 2005. Picturing Death in Classical Athens. (QUARTOS P 32 OAK)
Prag, A. 1984. "The skull from tomb II at Vergina: King Philip II of Macedon", Journal of Hellenic Studies 105, 60-78
(IA Pers and online)
Preston, L. 2004. ‘A mortuary perspective on political changes in Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete’, American Journal
of Archaeology 108: 321-48.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. 1995 'Reading' Greek Death, Oxford, pgs. 140-297 (CLASSICS GA 7 SOU)
Stampolidis, N. 1996. Reprisals (E 12 ELE)
Strömberg, A. 1998. "Sex-indicating grave-gifts in the Athenian iron age", in Aspects of Women in Antiquity (AH
M65 LOV)
Vermeule, E. 1979 Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (CLASSICS GA7 VER; Art FA VER).
Voutsaki, S. 1995. ‘Social and political processes in the Mycenaean Argolid: the evidence from the mortuary
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practices’, in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.) Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age
(Aegaeum 12), 54-65. TC 1820.
02/12/16
15. Warfare (BLH)
An overview on the techniques of warfare as seen in the archaeological record, and its role in social exchange. Siege
warfare and the trireme will also be examined.
Essential Reading
Hanson, V. 2000. Hoplite battle as ancient Greek warfare. When, where and why? in H. van Wees (ed.) War
and violence in ancient Greece, 201-232 (AH P 70 WEE and available online through online reading
list )
Schwartz, A. 2002. "The early hoplite phalanx; order or disarray", Classica et Mediaevalia 53, 31-64 (TC 3166)
Recommended
Cartledge, P. A. and Salmon, J. B. 1977. "Hoplites and heroes" and "Political hoplites" in Journal of Hellenic
Studies, 97, 11-27 and 84-101 (IA Pers and online)
Ducrey, P. 1986. Warfare in Ancient Greece (AH P70 DUC). Sample, and note illustrated
Foxhall, L. 2013. Can we see the ‘hoplite revolution’ on the ground? Archaeological landscapes ,material culture
and social status in early Greece in Kagan, D. and Viggiano, G. F. Men of Bronze. Hoplite warfare in
Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press. 194-221.
Hanson, V. 1995. The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of Western civilization, 221-244
(ISSUE DESK AH HAN)
Lawrence, A. W. 1979. Greek Aims in Fortification (K80 LAW)
Pritchett, W. K. 1971. The Greek States at War (several vols - for reference, AH P70 PRI)
Snodgrass, A. M. 1999. Arms and Armour of the Greeks (AH P70 SNO). Similar.
van Wees, H. 2004, Greek Warfare, Myths & Realities (AH P70 WEE)
Winter, F. E. 1971. Greek Fortifications (K80 WIN)
16. Kings, oligarchs, tyrants and democrats, the changing nature of power in the Greek world (BLH)
This lecture will look in detail the way the Greek organized themselves as indicated in the archaeological record.
It will explore the dynamic negotiation of power between different parts of society and the different solutions
they presented to the problems of governance, representation and justice.
Essential Reading
Forsdyke, S. 2009. The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny in R.Balot ed. The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Political
Thought. Wiley-Blackwell. 231-246 (M 75 BAL, processing more copies)
Osborne R. 1996 Greece in the making 1200-479 BC (IA DAE 200 OSB) and the second edition of 2009 (IA DAE
200 OSB; AH P 5 OSB, multiple copies) Chapters 7-9.
Recommended
Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (A20 WHI, multiple copies) Chapters 8, 13.
Hall, J. 2010. Autochthonous Autocrats: The tyranny of the Athenian democracy, in Turner, A. J., Kim ChongGossard, J. H. and Vervaert, F. (eds). Private and public lies: the discourse of despotism and deceit in the
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Graeco-Roman world (AH M60 TUR).
Morgan, K. A. 2003. Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece. Chapters by Morris,
Osborne (AH P 60 MOR).
Morris, I. 1991 The early polis as city and state in J. Price and A. Wallace-Hadrill (eds) City and country in the
ancient world, 25-57 (K 100 RIC; Issue Desk and available online through online reading list)
Morris, I. 1992. Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, (all recommended) (AH M55 MOR)
Ober, J. 1989. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rethoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. Princeton.
(AH P 60 RAA)
Raafkaub, K.A., Ober, J. and Wallace, R. W. (eds.) 2007. Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. University of
California Press. (
Small, D. B. (2015). A Defective Master Narrative in Greek Archaeology. In D. Haggis & C. Antonaccio (Eds.),
Classical Archaeology in Context. Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World (pp. 71-86).
Boston: De Gruyter. (Online).
Wycherley, R. E. 1976. How the Greeks Built Cities: the Relationship of Architecture and Town Planning to
Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, pp. 1-35 (K110 WYC and partly available online through online reading
list)
9th December 14/12/16 Room 209 12-2pm 17 & 18. Institute of Archaeology collection: hands-on
session (BLH, RS)
In this session, you will handle and discuss Greek artefacts from various periods and geographical areas belonging
to the Institute’s archaeology collection.
Although the session will involve artefacts other than pottery, here is a small selection of reading on Greek
pottery:
Cook R.M. 1997 Greek Painted Pottery (third edition) (P5 COO)
Sparkes A.B. 1996 The Red and the Black. Studies in Greek Pottery, chapters 1 and 3 (P 5 SPA)
Sparkes A.B. 1991 Greek Pottery. An Introduction (P 5 SPA)
16/12/16
19. The Archaeology of Economic Life: Trade and Industry (BLH)
What do pottery, shipwrecks and coins tell us of Greek production and exchange systems?
Essential Reading
Foxhall, L. 1998. Cargoes of the heart’s desire: the character of trade in the Archaic Mediterranean world in
N. Fisher & H. van Wees (eds) Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence, pgs. 295-310 (AH
P 12 FIS)
Gill D. 1994 Positivism, pots and long-distance trade in I. Morris (ed) Classical Greece. Ancient histories and
modern archaeologies, pgs. 99-107 (A 20 MOR and Issue Desk)
Recommended
Carradice, I. and Price, M. J. 1988. Coinage in the Greek World (R20 CAR)
Cartledge, P. 1983. ‘Trade and politics’ revisited: archaic Greece in P. Garnsey, K. Hopkins & C. Whittaker (eds)
Trade in the ancient economy, pgs. 1-15 (AH M68 GAR and available online through online reading
list)
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Casson, L. 1994. Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times (IA HG CAS and Issue Desk)
Finley, M. I. 1981. Economy and Society in Ancient Greece (AH P64 FIN)
Garlan, Y. 1983. "Greek amphorae and trade" (in as above Casson 1994, 27-35)
Grace, V. R. 1961. Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade (E12 ATH, box)
Greene, E., M. Lawall and M. Polzer 2008. Inconspicuous consumption: the sixth century BCE shipwreck at Pabuç
Burnu, Turkey, American Journal of Archaeology 112: 685-711. (IA Pers and online)
Horden P. & Purcell, N. 2000. The Corrupting Sea, pgs. 143-52 (AH A5 HOR and IA DAG 200
HOR and
available online through online reading list)
Humphreys, S. 1978. Anthropology and the Greeks - on trade, pgs 45-73,109-129,159-174 (AH P 55 HUM)
Johnston, A. W. 1991. "Greek vases in the marketplace", pp. 203-231 in N. Spivey and T. Rasmussen eds. Looking
at Greek Vases (P5 RAS)
Morris, I. 1986. Gift and commodity in Archaic Greece in Man 21, 1-17 (IA Pers and online)
Osborne, R. 1996. Pots, trade and the Archaic economy in Antiquity 70, pgs 31-44 (IA Pers and online)
Parker, A. J. 1992. Ancient Shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and the Roman Provinces; consult, 1-33, but
basically a source book (IA HG PAR)
Scheidel, W., Morris, I., & Saller, R. P. (eds.). 2007. The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Snodgrass, A. M. 1983. "Heavy freight in archaic Greece" 16-26 in P. Garnsey et al. Trade in the Ancient Economy
(AH M68 GAR) - how does this compare with focus on pottery?
Von Reden, S. 1997. Money, law and exchange: coinage in the Greek polis, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 117, 154176 (IA Pers and online)
4. ONLINE RESOURCES
The full UCL Institute of Archaeology coursework guidelines
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/administration/students/handbook .
can
be
found
here:
Online reading list
The full text of this handbook and online reading list for accessing a range of useful online resources dedicated
to Greek archaeology and themes touched upon in the lectures are available here
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/studying/undergraduate/courses/ARCL1004
Moodle
There is a moodle page for this course. On it you will find a) an electronic version of this handbook, in case
you lose your hardcopy; b) PDFs of the powerpoint presentations for the lectures which will uploaded as the
term proceeds. The access code for this course is ARCL1004.
5. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
INSTITUTE OF ARCHAELOGY COURSEWORK PROCEDURES
General policies and procedures concerning courses and coursework, including submission procedures,
assessment criteria, and general resources, are available in your Degree Handbook and on the following website:
http://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/archadmin. It is essential that you read and comply with these. Note that some of
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the policies and procedures will be different depending on your status (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate taught,
affiliate, graduate diploma, intercollegiate, interdepartmental). If in doubt, please consult your course coordinator.
GRANTING OF EXTENSIONS
New UCL-wide regulations with regard to the granting of extensions for coursework have been introduced with
effect from the 2015-16 session. Full details will be circulated to all students and will be made available on the
IoA intranet. Note that Course Coordinators are no longer permitted to grant extensions. All requests for
extensions must be submitted on a new UCL form, together with supporting documentation, via Judy
Medrington’s office and will then be referred on for consideration. Please be aware that the grounds that are
now acceptable are limited. Those with long-term difficulties should contact UCL Student Disability Services to
make special arrangements.