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CLAS 133A Course Syllabus: Fall 2005
Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Office: Rabb 128, tel. (781)-736-2183 (voicemail)
Department Office: Rabb 140, x6-2180
Email: aoko@brandeis.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., and by appointment.
Class Meets: Block H, Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately.
REQUIRED TEXTS
1. Biers, William R. The Archaeology of Greece (Cornell Paperbacks 1994) ISBN 0-8014-9406-0 (paper) (Hereafter referred to as Biers.)
2. Boardman, John, Greek Art (revised ed., Thames and Hudson 1996) ISBN 0-500-20292-3 (paper) (Hereafter referred to as Boardman.)
3. Pollitt, J.J., Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Cambridge, Eng. 1972) ISBN 0521 09662 6 (paper) (Hereafter referred to as Pollitt.)
4. Osborne, Robin, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford, Eng. 1998) ISBN 0-19-284202-1 (paper) (Hereafter referred to as Osborne.)
5. Pomeroy, Sarah, Stanley Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer T. Roberts Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Oxford, Eng., 1999) ISBN 0-19-509743-2 (paper) (Hereafter referred to as Pomeroy et al.)
6. Your own Notebook, including various handouts, which should form another “text” for the course by the time the term is over.
OTHER TEXTS
On Reserve in Library --indicated in this syllabus as (R), usually under Recommended Reading for each date below.
REQUIREMENTS
N.B. If you receive a grade of C+ or lower on your Midterm Exam, with permission from your professor, you may write an optional essay (5-7 typed, double-spaced pages) on one of several problems in the art and archaeology of ancient Greece. This optional essay (completely researched with footnotes and bibliography) may replace your Midterm Exam grade. Due Nov. 29, Tues.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
On the Midterm Slide Exam, students will be responsible for identifying slides shown in class (although not, by any means, all slides shown in class!—special selections will be posted on our WebCT) and slides drawn from the required reading. Most classes will have a short break at or near the midpoint for stretches and snacks.
APPROXIMATE COURSE GRADE DETERMINATION
ACADEMIC HONESTY
Academic integrity is central to the mission of educational excellence at Brandeis University. Each student is expected to turn in work completed independently, except when assignments specifically authorize collaborative effort. It is not acceptable to use the words or ideas of another person--be it a world-class classicist, philosopher, or our lab partner—without proper acknowledgement of that source. This means that you must use footnotes (or endnotes or parenthetical notes, depending on the instructor’s preference) and quotation marks to indicate the source of any phrases, sentences, paragraphs or ideas found in published volumes, on the internet, or created by another student.
Violations of University policies on academic integrity, described in Section Three of Rights and Responsibilities, may result in failure in the course or on the assignment, or in suspension or dismissal from the University. If you are in doubt about the instructions for any assignment in this course, it is your responsibility to ask for clarification.
I shall report all instances of cheating, plagiarism, or other alleged dishonesty to the Office of Campus Life for possible referral to the Student Judicial System. The adjudication process is also outlined your handbook, Rights and Responsibilities. A record of any offense remains in a student’s disciplinary file in the Office of Student Affairs throughout his or her career at Brandeis. Please know that I take this code very seriously. If you have any questions about my expectations, please ask me before you turn in questionable work.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS IN MORE DETAIL
1. ATTENDANCE IN CLASS AND PARTICIPATION IN CLASS OUTINGS.
Although daily attendance will not always be called (except for the first few weeks when your professor is putting names with faces), there will be a regular sign-in sheet that circulates in each class. You are expected to come to class for lectures, to take notes on class lectures (if it is your custom to do so), to attend class outings, and to participate actively in those parts of class time set aside for discussion. Every effort will be made to keep our darkened lecture hall a place of intellectual stimulation rather than a place suggestive of sleep! There will be a short break during most classes for snacks and stretches.
The following outings are tentatively scheduled:
*Fri., Sep. 23 Goldfarb/Farber Library (probably Gardner-Jackson room, but place will be announced)
*Sun., Oct. 9 Boston Museum of Fine Arts (make-up class for April 19 and April 22)
If there are a number of you who are unable to attend the class visit to the Boston MFA on Sunday, Oct. 9, I shall be happy to meet you as a group at the museum on another day to be determined at our mutual convenience—Wed. or Thurs. evenings, for example, or another Sunday—in order to accommodate ALL of you for this important look at the ancient collections. The visit is a class requirement and crucial for your object projects. If we simply can not find a mutually convenient time to go together, I shall ask you to go on your own with a special assignment to complete to prove that you were there and looking hard at the ancient Greek art.
2. MAP QUIZ PLUS and MIDTERM SLIDE EXAM.
Map Quiz Plus on Tues., Oct. 11 (sorry, no make-ups). This will involve map work on Greece and sites in the Mediterranean area as well as mastery of certain terms (vase shapes and parts of a temple, for example, to be discussed in advance) relevant to Greek art and archaeology.
Midterm Slide Exam on Nov. 4 (sorry, no make-ups). This exam will include short identifications of terms, places, names, etc., and slide identifications and/or comparisons with short essay responses required.
3. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS.
You may be asked to complete an occasional short writing assignment in class or between classes. These short papers might involve reactions to images and ideas or summaries of class lecture points or particular readings. Such assignments may serve as a random check on what the class is thinking about on occasion. They may or may not be graded.
The final Object Project (6-7 typed, double-spaced pages) is a combination of description and research on a piece of Greek art. A detailed assignment will follow later. Due at the end of the term, on Dec. 13, Tuesday.
Optional Report: A term paper of 6-7 typed, double-spaced pages (with permission from your professor granted in advance) may replace your midterm slide exam grade. You MUST take the midterm, however, to qualify for this option. It is not offered IN PLACE of the midterm, but as an opportunity to IMPROVE a midterm that did not go well for you. If you decide to do this option, it is due on Tues., Nov. 22. Details to follow.
4. WEEKLY HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS AND CLASS NOTEBOOK.
Please keep up with weekly reading assignments (sometimes from books on reserve in Goldfarb/Farber or from materials posted on our WebCT) so that lectures will be more meaningful to you. Under most headings in the schedule of lectures below, you will find a section labeled "Recommended" reading. All of these books are included in a document called Reserve Reading List, to be distributed separately in the second or third class period (and also posted on our WebCT). (PLEASE keep the Reserve list for the term with your syllabus!) On the Reserve Reading List you will find full bibliographic information and call numbers for the books. Please take advantage of the books listed as "Recommended"--for further reading, for studying plates, for fresh perspectives on material that we cover in class.
Your class notebook should be for lecture notes, notes on your readings, and for a careful collection of all handouts that you receive in the course. Handouts contain very important material for enhancing your appreciation of ancient Greece and its neighbors, and, not least, for information helpful for your completion of the Map Quiz Plus and Midterm Slide Exam. (These will be posted on the WebCT as well.)
SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND REQUIRED/RECOMMENDED READINGS (Please note that slight changes may be necessary.)
DUE DATE: September
02, Fri. Introduction, Course Goals, Overview of Syllabus and the Course
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06, Tues. Geography, Chronology, and Understanding the Greeks
READING: BOARDMAN, "INTRODUCTION"; BIERS, CHPT. 1; OSBORNE, "INTRODUCTION," CHPT. 1, 9-21; POMEROY ET AL. 1-40.
09, Fri. When does Ancient Greek Art/Archaeology Begin? Minoan Civilization of Crete and the Life in the Aegean, 3000-2000 B.C.E. and 2000-1550 B.C.E.
READING: BIERS, STUDY ALL MAPS; OSBORNE, ALL MAPS, TIMELINES 258-261; REVIEW POMEROY ET AL. 1-40.
RECOMMENDED: CADOGAN, G., PALACES OF MINOAN CRETE (1976) 10-103 (R); EVANS, A., THE PALACE OF MINOS (1964) LOOK AT VOL 1 (R); FRANKFORT, H.A.G., ART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (1972) (R), CHPT. ON "CRETE" 126-145; DOUMAS, CHRISTOS, CYCLADIC ART (1983) 9-26; FITTON, CYCLADIC ART 4-21; HOOD, S., THE MINOANS (1971); HUTCHINSON, R.W., PREHISTORIC CRETE (1962) 123-267 (R); MATZ, F.. CRETE AND EARLY GREECE (1965); PENDLEBURY, J.D.S., THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETE (1965) 94-303 (R); GRAHAM, JAMES W., THE PALACES OF CRETE 23-46.
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13, Tues. Archaeologists, Methods, and Mythology relating to the Bronze Age
READING: BIERS, CHPT.2; ONE CHPT. FROM RESERVE (RECOMMENDED READINGS FOR LAST WEEK) OR, FROM A BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE ON MINOAN CIVILIZATION.
16, Fri. End of Minoan Civilization and the Mycenaeans of the Mainland, ca. 1150-1100 B.C.E.
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 3
RECOMMENDED: HIGGINS, R.A., MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN ART (1967) 1-64 (R); LUCE, J.V., LOST ATLANTIS (1969) 58-206; BRILLIANT, R., THE ARTS OF ANCIENT GREEKS 1-17; MARINATOS, S. AND HIRMER, M., CRETE AND MYCENAE (1960).
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20, Tues. End of Mycenaean Civilization / The Dark Ages and the Geometric Period, ca. 1100-700 B.C.E.
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 4 & 5.
RECOMMENDED: CARPENTER, RHYS, DISCONTINUITY IN GREEK CIVILIZATION (1966); VERMEULE, E., GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE (1964); WOOD, MICHAEL, IN SEARCH OF THE TROJAN WAR (1985) (R).
23, Fri. The Dark Ages and the Geometric Period, ca. 1100-700 B.C.E./ Introduction to Greek Religion and Temple Architecture
READING: BOARDMAN, CHPT. 1; OSBORNE, CHPT. 2; POMEROY ET AL. 41-81.
RECOMMENDED: DESBOROUGH, V.R. D'A., THE GREEK DARK AGES (1972) 261-355 (R); BRILLIANT, R., ARTS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS 19-85; HOMANN-WEDEKING, E., THE ART OF ARCHAIC GREECE (1968) 11-34.
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27, Tues. The Orientalizing Period, Archaic Greece, and the Growth of the Greek Polis ca. 700-480 B.C.E/ The Greek Polis
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 6; BOARDMAN, CHPT. 2, HOMER HANDOUT; OSBORNE, CHPTS 3-4; POMEROY ET AL. 82-130.
RECOMMENDED: BRILLIANT, R., ARTS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS (1977) 35-80 (R); HOMANN-WEDEKING, E., THE ART OF ARCHAIC GREECE (1968) 81-129.
30, Fri. Farber Library/ Workshop on Books, Technology, and Ancient Objects
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DUE DATE: October
04, Tues. Rosh Hashanah, no class
07, Fri. Homer and Archaeology / Archaic Greece continued, ca. 600-480 B.C.E. / Architecture, Sculpture, and Black Figure Vase Painting
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 7; BOARDMAN, CHPT. 3; OSBORNE, CHPTS. 5-6; HOMERIC HANDOUTS (& PASTED ON WEBCT)
RECOMMENDED: BOARDMAN, J., ATHENIAN BLACK FIGURE VASES (1974) 14-103 (R); BOARDMAN, J., GREEK SCULPTURE: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (1978); CHARBONNEAUX, J., MARTIN, R. AND VILLARD, F., ARCHAIC GREEK ART, 620-480 B.C. (1971) 201-357; DODDS, E. R., THE GREEKS AND THE IRRATIONAL (1951); HOMANN-WEDEKING, E., THE ART OF ARCHAIC GREECE (1968) REVIEW 81-129, 130-196 (R); BRILLIANT, R., THE ARTS OF ANCIENT GREECE 127-165.
09, Sun. Visit to Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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*11, Tues. Map Quiz Plus Early Classical Period, ca. 480-450 B.C.E / Persian War in Greek History and New Wave of Confidence / video clip (tentative)
READING: BOARDMAN, CHPTS. 4 & 5; POLLITT, "PROLOGUE" AND CHPTS. 1 & 2; BIERS, CHPT. 7 (REVIEW ESP. ON OLYMPIA); OSBORNE, CHPTS. 7-8; POMEROY ET AL. 131-158, 159-245.
RECOMMENDED: ASHMOLE, B., YALOURIS, N., AND FRANTZ, A. OLYMPIA, THE SCULPTURE OF THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS (1967) (R).
14, Fri. Athens, the Age of Pericles, and the Parthenon / Athena Parthenos and the Parthenon
READING: BOARDMAN, CHPTS. 4 & 5 (REVIEW); POLLITT, CHPTS. 3 & 4; OSBORNE, CHAPTS. 9-10; POMEROY ET AL. REVIEW 201-245.
RECOMMENDED: ARIAS, PAOLO A HISTORY OF 1000 YEARS OF GREEK VASE PAINTING (1962) (R); ASHMOLE, B. ARCHITECT AND SCULPTOR IN CLASSICAL GREECE (1972) (R); BOARDMAN, J. DORIG, J. FUCHS, W. AND HIRMER, M. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE (1967); CARPENTER, RHYS THE ARCHITECTS OF THE PARTHENON (1970); BLUNDELL, SUSAN, WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE (1995); BRUNO, VINCENT, THE PARTHENON (1974); KOLOSKI-OSTROW, A.O. AND LYONS, CLAIRE (EDS.), NAKED TRUTHS: WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER IN CLASSICAL ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (1997) (R), ESP. CHPT. 7 ON PARTHENON FRIEZE; KEULS, EVA, THE REIGN OF THE PHALLUS (1985); ROBERTSON, MARTIN, THE PARTHENON FRIEZE (1975).
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18, Tues. Sukkot, no class
21, Fri. High Classical Architecture: Acropolis and Phidias / Athens and the Heyday of Classical Literature
READING: REVIEW READINGS FOR OCTOBER 14.
RECOMMENDED: ILIAD, ODYSSEY, plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, comedy of Aristophanes.
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25, Tues. Shimini Atzeret, no class
28, Fri. Sculpture of Phidias, Polyclitus, and Myron
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 8; OSBORNE, CHAPT. 11; BOARDMAN, REVIEW CHPT 4; POMEROY ET AL. 246-329.
RECOMMENDED: BEAZLEY, J.D., GREEK SCULPTURE AND PAINTING TO THE END OF THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD (1966); LULLIES, R. AND HIRMER, M., GREEK SCULPTURE (1960) (R); RICHTER, G.M.A., THE PORTRAITS OF THE GREEKS (1984); RICHTER, G.M.A., THE SCULPTURE AND SCULPTORS OF THE GREEKS (1970).
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DUE DATE: November
01, Tues. General Review for the Midterm / Red Figure Vases (Beazley, Painters, and Techniques)
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 8 (REVIEW); OSBORNE CHPTS. 7-10.
RECOMMENDED. BOARDMAN, J., ATHENIAN RED FIGURE VASES (1975)(R); BRUNO, V., FORM AND COLOUR IN GREEK PAINTING (1977); CHARBONNEAUX, ET AL, CLASSICAL GREEK ART (1972) (R); COOK, R.M., GREEK PAINTED POTTERY (1966) (R); BOARDMAN, JOHN, EROS IN GREECE (R); CANTARELLA, EVE, BISEXUALITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (1992); FOLEY, HELENE, REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY (1981); HALPERIN, DAVID ET AL. (EDS), BEFORE SEXUALITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF EROTIC EXPERIENCE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD (PRINCETON 1990); HALPERIN, DAVID, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HOMOSEXUALITY (1990); KAMPEN, NATALIE (ED.), SEXUALITY IN ANCIENT ART: NEAR EAST, EGYPT, GREECE, AND ITALY (1996).
*04, Fri. Midterm Slide Exam
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08, Tues. High Classical Art and Architecture Outside of Athens
READING: TBA
RECOMMENDED: SHEFOLD, K., THE ART OF CLASSICAL GREECE (1966) (R); SCULLY, V., THE EARTH, THE TEMPLE AND THE GODS: GREEK SACRED ARCHITECTURE (1979).
11, Fri. Change in the Fourth Century-Painting and Architecture after the Peloponnesian War (Late Classical)
READING: POMEROY ET. AL. 330-394; BIERS, CHPT. 9; BOARDMAN, REVIEW OF CHPTS. 4 & 5; OSBORNE, CHPT. 12.
RECOMMENDED: BRILLIANT, R., ARTS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS (1973) (R); ROBERTSON, M., A SHORTER HISTORY OF GREEK ART (1981) (R); LAWRENCE, A.W., GREEK ARCHITECTURE (1966).
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15, Tues. The Fourth Century (Late Classical) / Sculpture (Scopas, Lysippos, Praxiteles)
Midterm Replacement Papers due (ONLY w/ permission) Prospectus for Object Projects due.
READING: POLLITT, CHPT. 5 AND "EPILOGUE".
RECOMMENDED: HAVELOCK, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, THE APHRODITE OF KNIDOS (1995) (R); KOLOSKI-OSTROW, A.O. AND LYONS, CLAIRE (EDS.), NAKED TRUTHS: WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER IN CLASSICAL ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (1997) (R), ESP. CHPT. 10 ON KNIDIAN APHRODITE; RICHTER, G.M.A., THE SCULPTURE AND SCULPTORS OF THE GREEKS (1970).
18, Fri. Introduction to the Hellenistic Period, ca. 323-31 B.C.E.
READING: BIERS, CHPT. 10; BOARDMAN, CHPTS. 6 & 7; OSBORNE, CHPT. 13; POLLITT, REVIEW CHPT. 5; POMEROY ET AL. 395-426.
RECOMMENDED: BIEBER, M., THE SCULPTURE OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE (1961) (R); HAVELOCK, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, HELLENISTIC ART (1970); WEBSTER, THOMAS, HELLENISTIC ART (1967) (R).
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22, Tues. Hellenistic Art Sculpture and its Special Style
READING: REVIEW READING FOR NOVEMBER 29; POMEROY ET AL. 427-475.
24-25, Thurs. and Fri. Thanksgiving Break, no class
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*29, Tues. Prospectus for Final Paper / Hellenistic Painting and Minor Arts
READING: TBA
DUE DATE: December
02, Fri. Didyma, Miletus, Halicarnassus
READING: TBA
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06, Tues. Pergamon and the Altar of Zeus
READING: TBA
09, Fri. Other Outlying Cities and Sanctuaries of East Greece and Magna Graecia in Italy
READING: TBA
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*13, Tues. Object Projects Due / Preview of Rome after Alexander the Great / Wrap-Up
READING: OSBORNE, CHPT. 13 (REVIEW); BOARDMAN, CHPT. 8
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Photographs: [left] Hades abducting Persephone, fragment of terracotta relief, from Locri, now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photographic Credit: Paula Chabot, 2000), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/paula_chabot/hadespersephone.jpg; [second from left] Lion,gold rhyton (sacred vessel) of lioness head, Mycenaean, 16th century B.C.E., National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Photographic Credit: Barbara McManus, 1980), by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/lioness.jpg; [center] Elektra, white-ground alabastron, attic, c. 490 BCE, now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photographic Credit: Barbara McManus, 1982), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus__images/electra2.jpg; [second from right] Birth of Athena, detail, black figure cup, Athens, c. 550 BCE, signed by Phrynos as potter and attributed to the Phrynos Painter, now housed in The British Museum, London (Photographic Credit: Barbara McManus, 2001), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/birthathena.jpg; [right] Woman's Face, detail, black figure woman's head on neck of archaic Cycladic vase, end 7th century Ð beginning 6th century BCE, Archaelogical Museum, Mykonos (Photographic Credit: Barbara McManus, 1998), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/womanface2.jpg.
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