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CLAS 135A Course Syllabus: Spring 2006
Professor Angela Murock Hussein
Office: Rabb 359, tel. (781)-736-2186 (voicemail)
Department Office: Rabb 140, x6-2180
Email: murockan@brandeis.eduor angelamurock@yahoo.com
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Class Meets: Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 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.
EVALUATION
Course Evaluation will be made on the basis of in class presentations and three short papers.Class Presentations are 15 minute presentations on assigned topics related to the subjects discussed in class. Each student will be assigned two presentations during the semester. Presentations will be on February 15, March 29 and May 3. Three papers of 1-2 pages will be written on the reading assignments. Readings will beassigned and papers will be due on the dates specified below. Paper topics will be explained at the time the readings are assigned. The final grades will be determined based on presentations 40% and papers 20% each.
REQUIRED TEXT
Herodotus, The Histories, Penguin, 2003.
SCHEDULE
JANUARY
Wednesday Jan. 18: Introduction to Archaeology and Terms
Monday Jan. 23: History of Egypt, History of the Aegean
Wednesday Jan. 25: Literary References to the Aegeanin Egypt
Monday Jan. 30: Trade and Archaeology: Egyptian Contact with Crete
FIRST READINGS ASSIGNED
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FEBRUARY
Wednesday Feb. 1: Minoans in Egypt, Imports
Monday Feb. 6: Minoans in Egypt, Tel Dab'a, Theban Tombs
FIRST PAPER DUE
Wednesday Feb. 8: Mycenaeans and Egypt, Shaft Graves, Art and Trade
Monday Feb. 13: Mycenaeans and Egypt, The Fall of the Bronze Age
Wednesday Feb. 15: PRESENTATIONS 1
BEGIN HERODOTUS BOOK 2
Feb. 20 and 22, No Class
Monday Feb. 27: Beginning of the Iron Age, Late Pharaonic Egyptian History, Early Greece
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MARCH
Wednesday Mar. 1: Egypt, Greece and the Phoenicians, The Push West
Monday Mar. 6: Egyptian Art and Early Greek Art Wednesday
Mar. 8: Egypt and Greek Mercenaries
SECOND READINGS ASSIGNED
Monday Mar. 13: Greeks in Egypt, Naukratis
Wednesday Mar. 15: Herodotos and Egypt
SECOND PAPER DUE
Monday Mar. 20: Egypt in Greek Literature and Myth
Wednesday Mar. 22: Greek Art and the Art of Egyptian Late Period
Monday Mar. 27: PRESENTATIONS 2
Wednesday Mar. 29: Alexander and Egypt
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APRIL
Monday Apr. 3: Ptolomaic History 1
Wednesday Apr. 5: Ptolomaic History 2
Monday Apr. 10: Hellenistic Egyptian Art and Architecture
Wednesday Apr. 12: Topography of Alexandria
THIRD READINGS ASSIGNED
Apr. 17 and 19, No Class
Monday Apr. 24: Papyri: Mummies, Oxyrhyncus and Elephantine
Wednesday Apr. 26: The Hellenistic Kingdom and Rome
THIRD PAPER DUE
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MAY
Monday May 1: PRESENTATIONS 3
FIRST READINGS
1. M. Bernal, "The Case for Massive Egyptian Influence in the Aegean," Archaeology (45) September/October, 1992, pg. 53-55, 82 and 86.
2. J.E. Coleman, "Did Egypt Shape the Glory that was Greece: the Case Against Bernal's Black Athena," Archaeology (45) September/October, 1992, pg. 48-52, 77-78 and 80-81.
SECOND READINGS
1. Herodotus, The Histories, Book 2, Penguin, 2003
2. T.S. Brown, "Herodotus Speculates About Egypt," AJP (86) 1962, pg. 60-76.
3. J. Redfield, "Herodotus the Tourist, in Greeks and Barbarians, 2002, pg. 1-22.
THIRD READINGS
1. R.S. Bianchi, "Hunting Alexander's Tomb," Archaeology (46) July/August, 1993, pg. 54-55.
2. R.S. Bianchi, "Alexander's Tomb...Not," Archaeology (48) May/June, 1995, pg. 58-60.
3. N. Sami, "In Search of Alexander the Great," http://touregypt.net/featurestories/alexandersearch.htm
Photographs: [left] Cleopatra , detail, from http://sangha.net/messengers/cleopatra/all.htm; [right]
Mycenaean Woman, fragment, fresco, late 13th century B.C.E., National Archaeological Museum, Athens (photographic credit: Barbara McManus, 1980),
by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images.
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