ICCS-Catania, Fall 2008
Mediterranean Cultures: Greeks, Sicels, Phoenicians & Romans in Sicily
Nigel Nicholson & Matt Panciera
Tues 9-11, Fri field trip
SYLLABUS
Week I & II: Greek Colonization I: Megara Hyblaea
Tues I Robin Osborne, “Early Greek Colonization? The Nature of Greek Settlement in the West,” Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence, eds. Nick Fisher and Hans Van Wees (Duckworth, 1997), 251-69
Irad Malkin, “Exploring the Concept of ‘Foundation’: A Visit to Megara Hyblaia,” in Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World, eds. Vanessa Gorman & Eric Robinson (Brill, 2002), 195-225
Ross Holloway, Archaeology of Ancient Sicily (Routledge), 43-54
Fri I [No Field Trip, due to Intro Italian hours]
Tues II Jeffrey Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece 1100-480 BCE (Cornell, 1985), 179-202
Carla Antonaccio, “Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture,” in The Cultures within Greek Culture, eds. Carol Dougherty & Leslie Kurke (Cambridge, 2003), 57-74
Presentations on Greek Colonies: (1) A. J. Dominguez. “Greeks in Sicily,” in Tsetskhladze (ed.), Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Vol 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 253-69, 292-8, (2) Dominguez. “Greeks in Sicily” 269-92, 298-311 [Basic Chronology]
Fri II Field trip to Megara Hyblaea
Anne Cordsen, “The Pastas House in Archaic Greek Sicily,” in ed. T. Fischer-Hansen, Ancient Sicily (Copenhagen, 1995), 103-21
Week III: Greek Colonization II: Syracuse
Tues III Holloway, Archaeology, 54-96
Diodorus, selections
Herodotus 3.125-37
Presentation on Epigraphy: Matt
Presentation on Temple Architecture: Tony Spawforth, The Complete Greek Temples (T&H, 2006), selections
Fri III Field Trip to Syracuse: Temples of Apollo and Athena
Jonathan Hall, “How ‘Greek’ were the Early Western Greeks?” in Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, K. Lomas, ed. E.J. Brill, Leiden 2004: 55-81
Formal and Iconographic Analyses: of Temple of Apollo (2 pp.) and Temple of Athena (2 pp.). Maximum 4 pages. Due Tuesday IV.
Week IV: Greek Colonization III: Naxos
Tues IV Carol Dougherty, “It’s Murder to Found a Colony,” in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece, eds. Leslie Kurke & Carol Dougherty (New York: OUP, 1998), 178-98
Handout of Colonization legends for Sicily; Homer, Odyssey, bks 6-9
Map Test for Sicily and S. Italy (to the colonies from Week II, add Enna, Morgantina, Segesta/Egesta, Motya, Panormos/Palermo, Lilybaeum, and then Rhegion and Western Locri)
Fri IV Field trip to Naxos
Matthew Johnson, “Culture as a System,” Archaeological Theory (Blackwell, 1999), 64-84
Week V: Colonization IV: Sicels; Gela
Tues V Franco de Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous: The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily (Oxford, 2003), 1-16
Carol Dougherty, “The Aristonothos Crater,” in The Cultures within Greek Culture, eds. Dougherty & Kurke (Cambridge, 2003), 35-56
Presentation on Vases: Susan Matheson, Greek Vases: A Guide to the Yale Collection (Yale, 1988), 7-22, 42-3; L. Bernabo Brea, Sicily Before the Greeks (New York,1957), 140-2, 149-52, 156-8 (present only the pottery in these sections).
Presentation on Coins: Nigel
Fri V Field Trip to Gela Museum (and acropolis)
Holloway, Archaeology, 121-40
Week VI: Development of Colonies I: Acragas and Selinunte
Tues VI Holloway, Archaeology, 97-120 [66-78]
Pindar, Olympian 3 & Pythian 6, for Theron and Xenocrates
RRR Smith “Pindar, Athletes and the Statue Habit,” in Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, eds. S. Hornblower, C. Morgan (Oxford, 2006), 83-139
Presentation on Pindar: Nigel
Fri/Sat VI John Pedley, Sanctuaries and the Sacred (Cambridge, 2005), 78-118
Franco de Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous: The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily (Oxford, 2003), 150-63
Joint Formal and Iconographic Analysis and Comparison: of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas and the Acragas Ephebe in the Museum. 3-4 pp. each. Due Tuesday VII.
Week VII: Development of Colonies II: Deinomenid Syracuse and The Theatre
Tues VII Simon Goldhill, “The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology,” Nothing to do with Dionysos, eds. Jack Winkler & Froma Zeitlin (Princeton, 1990), 97-129
Holloway, 151-4
Aeschylus, Persae
Pindar, Pythian 1
Week IX: Development of Colonies III: The Sicilian Expedition, The New Tyrants, and Siege Defenses
Tues IX JK Davies, “The Peloponnesian War,” Democracy & Classical Greece (Harvard, 1993), 117-33
Holloway, 141-7
Eric Robinson, “Democracy in Syracuse, 466-412 B.C.,” HSCPh (Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, on JSTOR) 100 (2000): 189-205.
Thucydides, bks 6-7
Fri IX Field trip to Syracuse: Theatre (Neapolis) and Eurialo
AW Lawrence, “Archimedes and the Design of the Euryalus Fort,” JHS (Journal for Hellenic Studies, on JSTOR) 66 (1946): 99-107
JK Davies, “Philosophers, Mercenaries and Monarchs,” Democracy & Classical Greece, 174-97
Learn a couple of your favorite lines of Euripides to recite, and bring your Persae
Weeks X-XII: Phoenician and Roman Carthage; Romanization I
Tues X Aubet, “Phoenician Colonies in the Central Mediterranean The Phoenicians and the West, 2nd ed (Cambridge, 2001), 212-56
Jonathan Edmondson, “Cities and Urban Life in the Provinces of the Roman Empire, 30 BCE-250 CE,” A Companion to the Roman Empire, ed. David Potter (Malden, 2006), 250-80
Matthew Dillon & Lynda Garland, Ancient Rome: From the Early Republic to the Assassination of Julius Caesar (Routledge, 2005), selections
Presentation on Phoenician Settlement: H. G. Niemeyer, “The Phoenicians in the Mediterranean. Between Expansion & Colonisation: A Non-Greek Model of Overseas Settlement and Presence,” in ed. Tsetskhladze, Greek Colonisation, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 143-68
Presentation on Roman Spectacle: David Potter, “Spectacle,” A Companion to the Roman Empire, ed. Potter (Malden, 2006), 385-408
Presentation on Hellenistic Aesthetics: Nigel
Thur X – Field Trip to Carthage, Dougga, Bulla Regia, Bardo, Segesta, Motya, Palermo and Solunto
Weds XI Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World (Cambridge, 1999), 101-29
Shelby Brown, “Perspectives on Phoenician Art,” The Biblical Archaeologist (JSTOR) 55.1 (1992): 6-24
Formal and Iconographic Analysis: of any object in the Bardo. 3-4 pp. each. Due Tuesday XII.
Fri XI Field Trip around Catania, esp. the Baths of Achillianus
Sandra Lucore, “Baths,” Oxford Encylcopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, University Press, Forthcoming
Week XII: Morgantina, Between Greeks, Sicels and Romans, 550-213
Tues XII Barbara Tsakirgis, “Morgantina: A Greek Town in Central Sicily,” Acta Hyperborea 6 (1995): 123-147
Barbara Tsakirgis, “The Decorated Pavements of Morgantina I: The Mosaics,” AJA (American Journal of Archaeology, on JSTOR) 93 (1989): 395-416
Holloway 147-51
Theocritus 11, 6 (with Aelian 12.44)
Map test: on Sicily and the Western Mediterranean. (To the first quiz, add: Carthage, Cervetri, Lipari, Rome, Cadiz/Gadir, Pithecoussai, Cumae, Malta, Ibiza/Ebusus, Sulcis, Massalia.)
Fri XII Field Trip to Morgantina and its Museum in Aidone
Carla Antonaccio, “Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily” in Greek Identity, ed. Kathryn Lomas, (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 55-81
Formal and Iconographic Analysis: of either a building at the site of Morgantina or an object in the Museum at Aidone. 4pp. Due Tuesday XIII
Week XIII: Romanization II: The Theater and Civic Development
Tues XIII Cicero, Verrines, selections
Kathryn Lomas, “Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily,” in Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus, eds. Christopher Smith and John Serrati (Edinburgh, 2000), 161-73
R.J.A Wilson, “Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective,” in Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus, eds. Christopher Smith and John Serrati (Edinburgh, 2000), 134-160
Presentation on Theater Terminology: Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study (Oxford, 2006), 1-10, 24-36
Fri XIII Field Trip to Taormina
Catharine Edwards, “Playing Romans: representations of actors and the theater,” in The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1993), 98-136
Plautus, Poenulus
Week XIV: Romanization III: Villas and Piazza Armerina
Tues XIV Nicholas Purcell, “The Roman Villa and the Landscape of Production,” Urban Society in Roman Italy, eds. Kathryn Lomas & Tim Cornell (London, 1995), 151-79
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society (Princeton, 1994), 3-37
Holloway, 167-78
Presentations on Mosaics: (1) Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World (Cambridge, 1999), 269-90, (2) Dunbabin, Mosaics, 291-16
Fri XIV Field Trip to Piazza Armerina
Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World (Cambridge, 1999), 130-43
Pliny, Epistle 2.17
Week XV: Final Exam, with field trip Weds
The final will include both a written and a practical component. The written section will consist of some objects/texts from among the materials examined in depth in the course, to identify and comment upon at length. The practical section will consist of a final field trip, to a museum. Students will be expected to describe and discuss two artifacts, in relation to the artworks, articles and broader theoretical work of the semester.