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Academic Year 2000/2001

Reading the Greeks: Texts, Images, and Context
CCIV 114 SP
Crosslistings:
ARHA 104

This is an FYI seminar designed to provide an intensive introduction to the ancient Greek world through its ceramics. Several strategies will be used to approach this medium: literary, for historical and narrative frameworks; iconography, to decode the images frequently found on Greek ceramics and discuss aspects of myth, religion, and daily life; archaeology, providing context and methodology to discuss material culture production and its role in the culture; art history, which provides frameworks of identitification, attribution, and aesthetics. This will be a hands-on course, involving direct examination of objects from Wesleyan's collection, part of a collaborative publication project. We will also utilize collections nearby (New Haven, Hartford, Boston, and New York). Students will be trained to do serious research, using both traditional sources (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum) and Perseus, the hypermedia resource for Macintosh computers.

MAJOR READINGS

Berard et al., A CITY OF IMAGES Hastorf et al., USES OF STYLE ARCHAEOLOGY Nelson, ed. DECODING PREHISTORIC CERAMICS Noble, THE TECHNIQUES OF PAINTED ATTIC POTTERY Rice, POTTERY ANALYSIS, A SOURCEBOOK Rice, ed. POTS AND POTTERS: CURRENT APPROACHES IN CERAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY Spivey, LOOKING AT GREEK VASES

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Research objects in Wesleyan's collection; several short papers on topics mentioned in description. Special Emphasis on Writing.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Priority to first year students; some sophomores may enroll. Expect regular attendance and serious participation. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA CLAS    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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