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Joukowsky Institute Classroom |Changes [Dec 08, 2008]
ImagesPlease note that there may be slight adjustments in the reading list throughout the semester, so continue to keep an eye on it on a weekly basis. We will most likely have an additional brief article added to the list for Friday discussions and the pdfs of those will be posted here.
Week 1. Sept 3-5
Readings:
Week 2. Sept 8-12
Ancient Mesopotamia: cultures of the Tigris and Euphrates -cities of Sumer and Akkad in the Early Bronze Age.
Readings:
Stokstad 1-37. Kostof 43-65.
Ancient Mesopotamia in Archaeologica: The World's Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures. Aedeen Cremin (ed.) Frances Lincoln, 214-223.
Friday Reading:
Week 3. Sept 15-19
Crossing boundaries: Mesopotamia and Egypt in the Early Bronze Age
Readings: Stokstad 48-62. Kostof 67-89.
Friday Reading:
Week 4. Sept 22-26
Pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile: the story of Early Egypt
Readings: Stokstad 62-79.
Friday Reading:
Sacrifice for the State: First Dynasty Royal Funerals and the Rites at Macramallah’s Rectangle in Performing death: social analysis of funerary traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Nicola Laneri (ed.) Oriental Institute Publications, Chicago, 15-38.
Week 5. Sept 29-Oct 3
From Hammurabi to Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Ramses: Monuments and memory in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Hittites, Minoans and Myceneans: the wonderful world of the Eastern Mediterranean
Readings: Stokstad 37-40 and 82-106. Kostof 91-113.
Friday Reading:
The Divine Image of the King: Religious Representation of Political Power in the Hittite Empire" in Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East. Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman (eds.). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lak, 111-136.
Sept 29 Monday. First (museum) papers due.
Week 6. Oct 6-10
From Nimrud to Babylon: Iron Age in the Near East between Assyrians, Babylonians and Phrygians
Readings:
Assyria and its rivals" in Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Oxfordshire, 159-191.
Friday Reading:
Art in empire: The royal image and the visual dimensions of Assyrian ideology,” in Assyria 1995. Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. Simo Parpola & R.M. Whiting (eds.). Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 359-381.
Week 7. Oct 13-17
Oct 13. Columbus Day Holiday. No class.
Oct 15. Midterm Examination
Oct 17: Babylon: a city between myth and history.
Readings:
Week 8. Oct 20-24
Phoenicians, Greeks and the colonization of the world: Archaic Greece in perspective
Athens, Persepolis and the world in-between: cultural interactions in the Late Iron Age
Readings: Stokstad 42-46 and 106-148. Kostof 115-135.
Week 9. Oct 27-31
The Classical world of Greece: the making of the monumental temple
Readings: Stokstad 148-156. Kostof 137-159.
Friday Reading:
Week 10. Nov 3-7
Classical Greece: Athens, Delphi, and the Hippodamian plan of Anatolian cities- Priene, Miletus..
Readings: Stokstad 148-156. Kostof 137-159.
Friday Reading:
Barringer, Judith M.; 2008. "Myth and religion at Delphi" in Art, myth and ritual in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 144-170.
Week 11. Nov 10-14
The Hellenistic world: the flourishing of Hellenistic art in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands- The city of Pergamum
Readings: Stokstad 156-164. Kostof 161-189.
Friday Reading:
Week 12. Nov 17-21 and Nov 24
From Etruscans to Romans: the art of the Roman Empire.
Readings: Stokstad 169-218. Kostof 191-225.
Friday Reading:
Nov 24- Monday: Roman Provinces in the East: Jerash, Ephesus, Petra
Nov 26-30 Thanksgiving. No class
Dec 1 Monday. Second paper due.
Week 13. Dec 1-5
Monday: Unwinding the Column of Trajan: Narrative and the commemorative monument.
Wednesday: Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean world
Friday: Byzantine Constantinople
Readings: Stokstad 218-224. Kostof 245-267.
Dec 7-11: Reading Period
Dec 8 Monday: Review session.
Final exam: December 15th, at 9 am. To Take Place in Wilson 301
