INTRODUCTION TO GREEK AND ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Topics

• Introduction by course instructor (Zuckerman)
• What is archaeology?
• The Mediterranean in the third millennium BCE
• Walsh, K., The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes, pp. 10-29
• Woolf, G. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History, pp. 57-76.
• Prepalatial Minoan Culture
• The Minoan Palace Minoan Art
• Mee, C. Greek Archaeology, pp. 51-55.
• Preziosi, D and L. Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture, pp. 122-135.
• Mycenaean Chronology and Burial Mycenaean Architecture and Art Troy and the Collapse of the Mycenaean World
• The Uluburun Shipwreck and Mycenaean Trade Networks
• Crowley, J. “Mycenaean Art and Architecture” in C. Shelmerdine, The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, pp. 258-287.
• Rise of the Polis
• The Expansion of the Greek World
• Protoarchaic Pottery and Sculpture
• Protoarchaic Architecture
• Mee, C. Greek Archaeology, pp. 56-68 and pp.275-297.