Week One: Introduction (January 27)

• Aims and objectives
• Assignment of course readings
• Please sign up on the course wiki and include a link to your website.

Week Two: What is democracy? (February 3)

• Forrest, G. 1966. The Emergence of Greek Democracy. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Levin, M. 1989. Marx, Engels, and Liberal Democracy. New York: St Martins.
• Ober, J. and C. Hedrick (eds) 1996. Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern. Princeton University Press. (Selections)
• Raaflaub, K.A., J. Ober, and R. Wallace (eds) 2007. Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Selections)
• Sloterdijk, P. 2005. Atmospheric Politics. In Making Things Public–Atmospheres of Democracy (eds B. Latour and P. Weibel). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 944-51.

Week Three: What is society? (February 10)

• Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Blackwell Polity.
• Hall, J.M. 2007. Polis, Community, and Ethnic Identity. In H.A. Shapiro (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Cambridge: CUP.
• Latour, B. 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Ober, J. 1993. The polis as a society. Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian social contract. In M.H. Hansen (ed.) The Ancient Greek City-State. Copenhagen. 129-60.

Long Weekend: February 14-17

Week Four: Archaeological approaches to group formation and the early Greek Iron Age (February 24)

• Hall, J. 2007. The End of the Mycenaean World and its Aftermath. In A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 41-66.
• Kristiansen, K. and Larsson, T.B. 2006. The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Cambridge University Press.
• Snodgrass, A.M. 2000. The Dark Age of Greece. London: Routledge.
• Yoffee, N. 2005. Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations. Cambridge: CUP.

Week Five: The eighth-century ‘revolution’ (March 3)

• Hagg, R. (ed) 1983. The Greek Renaissance of the Eight Century BC: Tradition and Innovation. Stockholm: Svenska instituteti Athen.
• Morris, I. 2000. Inventing a Dark Age. In Archaeology as Culture History. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 77-106.
• Morris, I. 2005. The eighth-century revolution. Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics. Version 1.0.
• Osborne, R. 1996. Forming Communities: The Eighth Century BC. In Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC. London: Routledge.
• Snodgrass, A. 1980: Archaic Greece: The age of experiment, Berkeley.

Week Six: Formations of polis (March 10)

• Davies, J.K. 1997. The ‘origins of the Greek polis’: where should we be looking? In L.G. Mitchell and P.J. Rhodes. The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece. London. 24-38.
• de Polignac, F. 1995. Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State. Chicago.
• Morris, I. 1987. Burial and Ancient Society. Cambridge: CUP.
• Morris, I. 1996: The strong principle of equality and the archaic origins of Greek democracy. In Demokratia: A Historical and Theoretical Conversation on Ancient Greek Democracy and Its Contemporary Significance, J. Ober and C. Hedrick (eds) Princeton.

Further reading on the polis

• Hansen M.H. 1993. Introduction: the polis as a citizen-state. In The Ancient Greek City-State. M.H. Hansen (ed) Copenhagen. 7-29.
• Hansen, M.H. 2006. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford: OUP.

Project synopses due

Week Seven: Other approaches to community/group formation (March 17)

• Hall, J. 1997: Alternative responses within Polis Formation: Argos, Mykenai and Tiryns. In Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries BC. H. D. Andersen (ed.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
• Morgan, C. 2003. Early Greek States Beyond the Polis. London: Routledge.
• Morgan, C. and T. Whitelaw 1991. Pots and politics: Ceramic evidence for the rise of the Argive state. American Journal of Archaeology. 95(1). 79-108.
• Shanks, M. 1999: Art and the early Greek state, Cambridge.

Spring Recess: March 21-29

Week Eight: Standardization and equality: Between military, markets and citizenship (March 31)

• Hansen, V.D. 1989. The Hoplite and his Phalanx: War in an Agricultural Society. The Western Way of War. Oxford. 27-39.
• Krentz, P. 2007. Warfare and Hoplites. In H.A. Shapiro (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Cambridge: CUP.
• Lang, M. and M. Crosby, 1964. Weights, Measures and Tokens, Athenian Agora 10. American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
• Morris, I. 2000. Equality for men. In Archaeology as Culture History. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 109-54.
• Snodgrass, A. 1999. Arms and Armor of the Greeks. 2nd Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Vickers, M. 1985. Early Greek coinage, a reassessment. Numismatic Chronicle. 1-44.

Further Reading

• Johnston, J. 1934. Solon’s reform of weights and measures. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 54(2), 180-84.

Week Nine: Compact spaces and loose places (April 7)

• Hall, J 2007. Communities of Place. In A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 67-92.
• Murray, O. 1982. Symposion and Mannerbund In P. Oliva and A frolikova (eds.) Concilium Eirene IS. 1. Prague.
• Murray, O. 1983. The symposium as social organization. In R. Hagg (ed.) The Greek Renaissance of the Eight Century BC: Tradition and Innovation. Stockholm: Svenska instituteti Athen.
• Lang, M. 2005. The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora. American School of Classical Studies.

Further Reading

• The Birth of Democracy: An Exhibition Celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of Democracy. URL

Week Ten: Gathering crowds: Architectures of assembly (April 14)

• Camp, J.M. 2004. The Archaeology of Athens. Yale University Press.
• Hansen, M.H. 1989. The Athenian Assembly. Blackwell.
• Hansen, M.H. and T. Fischer-Hansen 1994: Monumental political architecture in Archaic and Classical Greek poleis: Evidence and historical significance. In D. Whitehead (ed.) From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius. Historia Einzelschriften 87 Stuttgart.
• Ober, J. 2005. Athenian Legacies: Essays on the politics of Going on Together. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Week Eleven: Political devices: Between ostracism, clocks, allotment machines, performance and writing displayed (April 21)

• Armstrong, J. E. and J. Camp, 1977. Notes on a water clock in the Athenian Agora. Hesperia. 46(2) 147-61.
• Cohen, D. 2003. Writing, Law, and Legal Practice in the Athenian Courts. In H. Yunis (ed.) Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press.
• Dow, S. 1939. Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 50. 1-34.
• Drachmann, A.G. 1948. Water Clocks. Ktesibios, Philon and Heron. Copenhagen. 16-41.
• Forsdyke, S. 2005. Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press.
• Thomas, R. 1992. Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press.

Further Reading

• Drachmann, A.G. 1963. The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity. University of California Press.

Week Twelve: Travel and mobility (April 28)

• Antonaccio, C.M. 2007. Colonization: Greece on the Move, 900-480. In H.A. Shapiro (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Cambridge: CUP.
• Casson, L. 1994. Trade and Travel in Classical Greek Times. Travel in the Ancient World. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 65-94.
• Garnsey, P. 1989. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Athens c. 600-322 BC. Famine and Food Supply in the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge University Press.
• Purcell, N. 1990. Mobility and the polis. In The Greek City from Homer to Alexander. O. Murray and S. Price (eds). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Renfrew, C. 1975. Trade and action at a distance: Questions of Integration and Communication. In J.A. Sabloff and C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (eds) Ancient Civilization and Trade. University of New Mexico Press.

Week Thirteen: The composition of the demos: citizens, things and excluded masses (May 5)

• Katz, M. 2003. Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece. In E.W. Pobinson (ed.) Ancient greek Democracy Oxford: Blackwell.
• Latour, B. 2005. From realpolitik to dingpolitik – or how to make things public. In Making Things Public–Atmospheres of Democracy (eds B. Latour and P. Weibel). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 14-41.
• Manville, B. and J. Ober 2003. A Company of Citizens: What the World’s First Democracy Teaches Leaders about Creating Great Organizations. Harvard Business School.

Project drafts due

Week Fourteen: Project Presentations (May 12)

Final projects due: May (May 19)'''