ICCS-Catania, Fall 2008<\/p>\n
Mediterranean Cultures: Greeks, Sicels, Phoenicians & Romans in Sicily<\/span><\/p>\n Nigel Nicholson & Matt Panciera<\/p>\n Tues 9-11, Fri field trip<\/p>\n SYLLABUS<\/p>\n Week I & II: Greek Colonization I: Megara Hyblaea<\/span><\/p>\n Tues I Robin Osborne, “Early Greek Colonization? The Nature of Greek Settlement in the West,” Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence<\/em>, eds. Nick Fisher and Hans Van Wees (Duckworth, 1997), 251-69<\/p>\n 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<\/em>, eds. Vanessa Gorman & Eric Robinson (Brill, 2002), 195-225<\/p>\n Ross Holloway, Archaeology of Ancient Sicily<\/em> (Routledge), 43-54<\/p>\n Fri I [No Field Trip, due to Intro Italian hours]<\/p>\n Tues II Jeffrey Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece<\/em> 1100-480 BCE<\/em> (Cornell, 1985), 179-202<\/p>\n Carla Antonaccio, “Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture,” in The Cultures within Greek Culture, <\/em>eds. Carol Dougherty & Leslie Kurke (Cambridge, 2003), 57-74<\/p>\n Presentations on Greek Colonies<\/span>: (1) A. J. Dominguez. “Greeks in Sicily,” in Tsetskhladze (ed.), Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, <\/em>Vol 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 253-69, 292-8, (2) Dominguez. “Greeks in Sicily” 269-92, 298-311 [Basic Chronology]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Fri II Field trip to Megara Hyblaea<\/em><\/p>\n Anne Cordsen, “The Pastas House in Archaic Greek Sicily,” in ed. T. Fischer-Hansen, Ancient Sicily<\/em> (Copenhagen, 1995), 103-21<\/p>\n Week III: Greek Colonization II: Syracuse<\/span><\/p>\n Tues III Holloway, Archaeology, <\/em>54-96<\/p>\n Diodorus, selections<\/p>\n Herodotus 3.125-37<\/p>\n Presentation<\/span> on Epigraphy: Matt<\/p>\n Presentation on Temple Architecture<\/span>: Tony Spawforth, The Complete Greek Temples<\/em> (T&H, 2006), selections<\/p>\n Fri III Field Trip to Syracuse: Temples of Apollo and Athena<\/em><\/p>\n Jonathan Hall, “How ‘Greek’ were the Early Western Greeks?” in Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean,<\/em> K. Lomas, ed. E.J. Brill, Leiden 2004: 55-81<\/p>\n Formal and Iconographic Analyses<\/span>: of Temple of Apollo (2 pp.) and Temple of Athena (2 pp.). Maximum 4 pages. Due Tuesday IV.<\/p>\n Week IV: Greek Colonization III: Naxos<\/span><\/p>\n Tues IV Carol Dougherty, “It’s Murder to Found a Colony,” in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece<\/em>, eds. Leslie Kurke & Carol Dougherty (New York: OUP, 1998), 178-98<\/p>\n Handout of Colonization legends for Sicily; Homer, Odyssey<\/em>, bks 6-9<\/p>\n Map Test for Sicily and S. Italy<\/span> (to the colonies from Week II, add Enna, Morgantina, Segesta\/Egesta, Motya, Panormos\/Palermo, Lilybaeum, and then Rhegion and Western Locri)<\/p>\n Fri IV Field trip to Naxos<\/em><\/p>\n Matthew Johnson, “Culture as a System,” Archaeological Theory <\/em>(Blackwell, 1999), 64-84<\/p>\n Week V: Colonization IV: Sicels; Gela<\/span><\/p>\n Tues V Franco de Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous: The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily<\/em> (Oxford, 2003), 1-16<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Carol Dougherty, “The Aristonothos Crater,” in The Cultures within Greek Culture, <\/em>eds. Dougherty & Kurke (Cambridge, 2003), 35-56<\/p>\n Presentation on Vases<\/span>:\u00a0Susan Matheson, Greek Vases: A Guide to the Yale Collection<\/em> (Yale, 1988), 7-22, 42-3; L. Bernabo Brea, Sicily Before the Greeks <\/em>(New York,1957), 140-2, 149-52, 156-8 (present only the pottery in these sections).<\/p>\n Presentation on Coins<\/span>: Nigel<\/p>\n Fri V Field Trip to Gela Museum (and acropolis)<\/em><\/p>\n Holloway, Archaeology, <\/em>121-40<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Week VI: Development of Colonies I: Acragas and Selinunte<\/span><\/p>\n Tues VI Holloway, Archaeology, <\/em>97-120 [66-78]<\/p>\n Pindar, Olympian <\/em>3 & Pythian 6, for Theron and Xenocrates<\/p>\n RRR Smith “Pindar, Athletes and the Statue Habit,” in Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire<\/em>, eds. S. Hornblower, C. Morgan (Oxford, 2006), 83-139<\/span><\/p>\n Presentation on Pindar<\/span>: Nigel<\/p>\n Fri\/Sat VI John Pedley, Sanctuaries and the Sacred (Cambridge, 2005), 78-118<\/span><\/p>\n Franco de Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous: The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily<\/em> (Oxford, 2003), 150-63<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Joint Formal and Iconographic Analysis and Comparison<\/span>: of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas and the Acragas Ephebe in the Museum. 3-4 pp. each. Due Tuesday VII.<\/p>\n Week VII: Development of Colonies II: Deinomenid Syracuse and The Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n Tues VII Simon Goldhill, “The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology,” Nothing to do with Dionysos<\/em>, eds. Jack Winkler & Froma Zeitlin (Princeton, 1990), 97-129<\/p>\n Holloway, 151-4<\/p>\n Aeschylus, Persae<\/em><\/p>\n Pindar, Pythian<\/em> 1<\/p>\n Week IX: Development of Colonies III: The Sicilian Expedition, The New Tyrants, and Siege Defenses<\/span><\/p>\n Tues IX JK Davies, “The Peloponnesian War,” Democracy & Classical Greece <\/em>(Harvard, 1993), 117-33<\/p>\n Holloway, 141-7<\/p>\n Eric Robinson, “Democracy in Syracuse, 466-412 B.C.,” HSCPh<\/em> (Harvard Studies in Classical Philology<\/em>, on JSTOR) 100 (2000): 189-205.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Thucydides, bks 6-7<\/p>\n Fri IX Field trip to Syracuse: Theatre (Neapolis) and Eurialo<\/em><\/p>\n AW Lawrence, “Archimedes and the Design of the Euryalus Fort,” JHS<\/em> (Journal for Hellenic Studies<\/em>, on JSTOR) 66 (1946): 99-107<\/p>\n JK Davies, “Philosophers, Mercenaries and Monarchs,” Democracy & Classical Greece<\/em>, 174-97<\/p>\n Learn a couple of your favorite lines of Euripides to recite, and bring your Persae<\/em><\/p>\n Weeks X-XII: Phoenician and Roman Carthage; Romanization I<\/span><\/p>\n Tues X Aubet, “Phoenician Colonies in the Central Mediterranean The Phoenicians and the West<\/span><\/em>, 2nd<\/sup> ed (Cambridge, 2001), 212-56<\/p>\n Jonathan Edmondson, “Cities and Urban Life in the Provinces of the Roman Empire, 30 BCE-250 CE,” A Companion to the Roman Empire<\/em>, ed. David Potter (Malden, 2006), 250-80<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Matthew Dillon & Lynda Garland, Ancient Rome: From the Early Republic to the Assassination\u00a0of Julius Caesar<\/em> (Routledge, 2005), selections<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Presentation on Phoenician Settlement<\/span>: 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, <\/em>vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 143-68<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Presentation on Roman Spectacle<\/span>: David Potter, “Spectacle,” A Companion to the Roman Empire<\/em>, ed. Potter (Malden, 2006), 385-408<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Presentation on Hellenistic Aesthetics<\/span>: Nigel<\/p>\n Thur X – Field Trip to Carthage, Dougga, Bulla Regia, Bardo, Segesta, Motya, Palermo and Solunto<\/em><\/p>\n Weds XI Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World <\/em>(Cambridge, 1999), 101-29<\/p>\n Shelby Brown, “Perspectives on Phoenician Art,” The Biblical Archaeologist<\/em> (JSTOR) 55.1 (1992): 6-24<\/p>\n Formal and Iconographic Analysis<\/span>: of any object in the Bardo. 3-4 pp. each. Due Tuesday XII.<\/p>\n Fri XI Field Trip around Catania, esp. the Baths of Achillianus<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>Sandra Lucore, “Baths,” Oxford Encylcopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome<\/em> (Oxford, University Press, Forthcoming<\/em><\/p>\n Week XII: Morgantina, Between Greeks, Sicels and Romans, 550-213<\/span><\/p>\n Tues XII Barbara Tsakirgis, “Morgantina: A Greek Town in Central Sicily,” Acta Hyperborea<\/em> 6 (1995): 123-147<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Barbara Tsakirgis, “The Decorated Pavements of Morgantina I: The Mosaics,” AJA<\/em> (American Journal of Archaeology<\/em>, on JSTOR) 93 (1989): 395-416<\/p>\n Holloway 147-51<\/p>\n Theocritus 11, 6 (with Aelian 12.44)<\/p>\n Map test<\/span>: on Sicily and the Western Mediterranean. (To the first quiz, add: Carthage, Cervetri, Lipari, Rome, Cadiz\/Gadir, Pithecoussai, Cumae, Malta, Ibiza\/Ebusus, Sulcis, Massalia.)<\/p>\n Fri XII Field Trip to Morgantina and its Museum in Aidone<\/em><\/p>\n Carla Antonaccio, “Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily” in Greek Identity,<\/em> ed. Kathryn Lomas, (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 55-81<\/p>\n Formal and Iconographic Analysis<\/span>: of either<\/span> a building at the site of Morgantina or<\/span> an object in the Museum at Aidone. 4pp. Due Tuesday XIII<\/p>\n Week XIII: Romanization II: The Theater and Civic Development<\/span><\/p>\n Tues XIII Cicero, Verrines<\/em>, selections<\/p>\n Kathryn Lomas, “Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily,” in Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus<\/em>, eds. Christopher Smith and John Serrati (Edinburgh, 2000), 161-73<\/p>\n R.J.A Wilson, “Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective,” in Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus<\/em>, eds. Christopher Smith and John Serrati (Edinburgh, 2000), 134-160<\/p>\n Presentation on Theater Terminology<\/span>: Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study<\/em> (Oxford, 2006), 1-10, 24-36<\/p>\n Fri XIII Field Trip to Taormina<\/em><\/p>\n Catharine Edwards, “Playing Romans: representations of actors and the theater,” in The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome<\/em> (Cambridge, 1993), 98-136<\/p>\n Plautus, Poenulus<\/em><\/p>\n Week XIV: Romanization III: Villas and Piazza Armerina<\/span><\/p>\n Tues XIV Nicholas Purcell, “The Roman Villa and the Landscape of Production,” Urban Society in Roman Italy<\/em>, eds. Kathryn Lomas & Tim Cornell (London, 1995), 151-79<\/p>\n Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society <\/em>(Princeton, 1994), 3-37<\/p>\n Holloway, 167-78<\/p>\n Presentations on Mosaics<\/span>: (1) Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World<\/em> (Cambridge, 1999), 269-90, (2) Dunbabin, Mosaics, <\/em>291-16<\/p>\n Fri XIV Field Trip to Piazza Armerina<\/em><\/p>\n Katherine Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World <\/em>(Cambridge, 1999), 130-43<\/p>\n Pliny, Epistle<\/em> 2.17<\/p>\n Week XV: Final Exam, with field trip Weds<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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? 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