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The Department of Classical and Near Eastern Structure of Cities, and of Art. In Archaeology trains undergraduates and graduate consultation with the major advisor, one course students in the archaeology of the Mediterranean taken in study abroad may be accepted for credit and Middle Eastern worlds. The program is in the major. interdisciplinary and encourages students to take The writing requirement for the major consists of advantage of related offerings in Departments of two one-semester Writing Attentive courses , Classics, , History, History offered within the department. of Art, and the Program in the Growth and Structure of Cities. Each student’s course of study to meet major requirements will be determined in consultation In collaboration with the Departments of with the undergraduate major advisor in the Geology, Biology and Anthropology, a spring semester of the sophomore year, at which concentration in is offered time a written plan will be designed. Students together with coursework and laboratory training considering majoring in the department are in Geographic Information Systems. The Ella encouraged to take the introductory courses Riegel Memorial Collection of over 6,000 artifacts (ARCH 101 or 104 and 102) early in their is used in instruction. Students are encouraged to undergraduate career and should also seek advice study material for research and to volunteer with from departmental faculty. Students who are the College Collections staff, who manage the interested in interdisciplinary concentrations or collection. in study abroad during the junior year are strongly advised to seek assistance in planning Students may complete a major or minor in their major early in their sophomore year. Classical and . MINOR REQUIREMENTS CURRICULUM The minor requires six courses. Core The curriculum of the department focuses on the requirements are two 100-level courses cultures of the Mediterranean regions and the distributed between the ancient and Near East in antiquity. Courses treat aspects of and ancient Greece and Rome, in addition society and of these civilizations to four other courses selected in consultation with as well as issues of theory, method, and the major advisor. interpretation. CONCENTRATION IN MAJOR REQUIREMENTS GEOARCHEOLOGY The major requires a minimum of 10 courses. The Departments of Anthropology, Classical and Core requirements are two 100-level courses Near Eastern Archaeology, and Geology offer a distributed between the and concentration in geoarchaeology for existing Egypt (either ARCH 101 or 104) and ancient majors in these departments. Please consult with Greece and Rome (ARCH 102), and two Professor Magee regarding this program. Please semesters of the senior conference. At least two note that these requirements are separate from upper-level courses should be distributed those for the major and cannot be double between Classical and Near Eastern subjects. counted. Additional requirements are determined in consultation with the major advisor. Additional Concentration Requirements coursework in allied subjects may be presented • Two 100-level units from Anthropology, for major credit but must be approved in writing Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology by the major advisor; such courses are offered in (including ARCH 135, a half-credit course) or the Departments of Anthropology, Geology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Growth and Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 95 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) Geology, of which one must be from the semester. The airfare and accommodations costs department outside the student’s major. are covered by the Department. • ANTH/ARCH/GEOL 270: Geoarchaeology (Magee, Barber). LANGUAGES • BIOL/ARCH/GEOL 328: Geospatial Data Majors who contemplate graduate study in Analysis and GIS (staff). Classical fields should incorporate Greek and • Two elective courses, to be chosen in Latin into their programs. Those who plan consultation with the major advisor, from graduate work in Near Eastern or Egyptian may among current offerings in Anthropology, take appropriate ancient languages at the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and University of Pennsylvania, such as Middle Geology. One of these two courses must be Egyptian, Akkadian and Sumerian. Any student from outside the student’s major. Suggested considering graduate study in Classical and Near courses include but are not limited to ARCH Eastern archaeology should study French and 135 (HALF-CREDIT: Archaeological German. Fieldwork and Methods), ANTH 203 ( Ecology), ANTH 220 (Methods and Theory), STUDY ABROAD ARCH 330 ( and A semester of study abroad is encouraged if the Theory), ANTH 225 (Paleolithic Archaeology), program is approved by the department. Students ANTH 240 (Traditional Technologies), ARCH are encouraged to consult with faculty, since 308 (Ceramic Analysis), ARCH 332 (Field some programs the department may approve may Techniques), GEOL 202 (Mineralogy), GEOL not yet be listed at the Office of International 205 (Sedimentology), GEOL 310 Programs. Students who seek major credit for (Geophysics), and GEOL 312 (Quaternary courses taken abroad must consult with the major Climates). advisor before enrolling in a program. Major

credit is given on a case-by-case basis after review REQUIREMENTS FOR HONORS of the syllabus, work submitted for a grade, and a Honors are granted on the basis of academic transcript. Credit will not be given for more than performance as demonstrated by a cumulative one course and not for courses that are ordinarily average of 3.5 or better in the major. offered by the department.

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH FIELDWORK Majors who wish to undertake independent The department strongly encourages students to research, especially for researching and writing a gain fieldwork experience and assists them in lengthy paper, must arrange with a professor who getting positions on field projects in North is willing to advise them, and consult with the America and overseas. The department is major advisor. Such research normally would be undertaking several field projects in which conducted by seniors as a unit of supervised work undergraduates may be invited to participate. (403), which must be approved by the advising professor before registration. Students planning Professor Peter Magee conducts a for-credit field to do such research should consult with school at Muweilah, al-Hamriya and Tell Abraq in professors in the department in the spring the . Undergraduate and semester of their junior year or no later than the graduate students participate in this project, beginning of the fall semester of the senior year. which usually takes place during the winter break. He sends an announcement about how to apply ANNUAL FIELD TRIP for a position in the fall of each year. Students From 2015/6 onwards the Department will be who participate for credit sign up for a 403 organizing an annual field trip for registered independent study with Professor Magee. majors in their Junior Year. The trip will involve a city (e.g., or Rome) which features in our Professor Astrid Lindenlauf is also beginning a teaching program, or a city which contains new excavation project at the ancient Greek relevant (e.g., London, Paris, Berlin). trading post of Naukratis in Egypt, and the Details for the upcoming trip will be made opportunities for work there will expand as the available at the beginning of the fall project gets under way.

96 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) INTERNSHIPS 2017-2018) The department is awarded annually two internships by the Nicholas P. Goulandris ARCH B102 INTRODUCTION TO Foundation for students to work for a month in the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, Astrid Lindenlauf with an additional two weeks at an archaeological A historical of the archaeology and art of field project. This is an all-expense paid Greece, Etruria, and Rome. (Offered Spring 2018) internship for which students may submit an application. An announcement inviting ARCH B104 ARCHAEOLOGY OF applications is sent in the late fall or beginning of AGRICULTURAL AND URBAN the second semester. REVOLUTIONS Opportunities to work with the College’s Staff archaeology collections are available throughout This course examines the archaeology of the two the academic year and during the summer. most fundamental changes that have occurred in Students wishing to work with the collections human society in the last 12,000 years, should consult Marianne Weldon, Collections agriculture and urbanism, and we explore these Manager for Special Collections. in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also explore those societies that did not experience these changes. (Not offered 2017- FUNDING FOR INTERNSHIPS 2018) AND SPECIAL PROJECTS The department has two funds that support ARCH B110 THE WORLD THROUGH students for internships and special projects of CLASSICAL EYES their own design. One, the Elisabeth Packard Alice Donohue Fund for internships in Art History and A survey of the ways in which the ancient Greeks Archaeology is shared with the Department of the and Romans perceived and constructed their , while the other is the Anna Lerah physical and social world. The evidence of ancient Keys Memorial Prize. Any declared major may texts and monuments will form the basis for apply for these funds. An announcement calling exploring such subjects as cosmology, geography, for applications is sent to majors in the spring, travel and commerce, ancient ethnography and and the awards are made at the annual college anthropology, the idea of natural and artificial awards ceremony in April. wonders, and the self-definition of the classical cultures in the context of the oikoumene, the FACULTY “inhabited world.” (Offered Fall 2017)

Alice Donohue ARCH B125 CLASSICAL MYTHS IN ART Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near AND IN THE SKY Eastern Archaeology Staff

This course explores Greek and Roman Astrid Lindenlauf mythology using an archaeological and art Associate Professor historical approach, focusing on the ways in

which the traditional tales of the gods and heroes Peter Magee (on leave Spring 2018) were depicted, developed and transmitted in the Chair and Professor visual arts such as vase painting and architectural

sculpture, as well as projected into the natural Susanna McFadden environment. (Not offered 2017-2018) Visiting Assistant Professor

ARCH B135 FOCUS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL COURSES FIELDWORK AND METHODS ARCH B101 INTRODUCTION TO Astrid Lindenlauf EGYPTIAN AND NEAR EASTERN The fundamentals of the practice of archaeology ARCHAEOLOGY through readings and case studies and Staff participatory demonstrations. Case studies will be A historical survey of the archaeology and art of drawn from the archives of the Nemea Valley the ancient Near East and Egypt. (Not offered Archaeological Project and material in the Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 97 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) College’s collections. Each week there will be a 1- context in which participants gain insight into the hour laboratory that will introduce students to a ways ancient Greeks perceived, represented, and variety of fieldwork methods and forms of treated animals. Juxtaposing the importance of analysis. This is a half semester Focus course. animals in modern society, as attested, for (0.5 credits) (Offered Fall 2017) example, by their roles as pets, agents of healing, diplomatic gifts, and even as subjects of ARCH B137 FOCUS: INTRODUCTION specialized studies such as animal law and animal INTO PRINCIPLES OF PRESERVATION & geographies, the course also serves to expand CONSERVATION awareness of attitudes towards animals in our Staff own society as well as that of ancient Greece. (Not This half-unit introductory course provides offered 2017-2018) insights into the fundamentals of the practices of archaeological preservation and conservation and ARCH B205 GREEK SCULPTURE enhances the understanding of their significance Alice Donohue in the archaeological process. This half-course One of the best preserved categories of evidence deals exclusively with excavated materials that for ancient Greek culture is sculpture. The Greeks are still on-site or have been moved to a storage devoted immense resources to producing facility or a museum. Materials considered in this sculpture that encompassed many materials and course include , textiles, and portable forms and served a variety of important social objects made of clay, stone, and metal. While functions. This course examines sculptural most of the finds are from land sites, occasional production in Greece and neighboring lands from references to marine material are made. Most of the through the fourth century B.C.E. the material used in the hands-on sessions comes with special attention to style, iconography and from the Special Collections. Suggested historical and social context. (Offered Fall 2017) preparation: basic understanding of chemistry is helpful. (0.5 credits) (Not offered 2017-2018) ARCH B206 HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN SCULPTURE ARCH B203 ANCIENT GREEK CITIES Staff AND SANCTUARIES This course surveys the sculpture produced from Staff the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century A study of the development of the Greek city- C.E., the period, beginning with the death of states and sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is Alexander the Great, that saw the transformation surveyed in its historic context. The political of the classical world through the rise of Rome formation of the city-state and the role of religion and the establishment and expansion of the is presented, and the political, economic, and . Style, iconography, and religious institutions of the city-states are production will be studied in the contexts of the explored in their urban settings. The city-state is culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman considered as a particular political economy of appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in the Mediterranean and in comparison to the Roman society, and the significance of Hellenistic utility of the concept of city-state in other and Roman sculpture in the post-antique classical cultures. (Not offered 2017-2018) tradition. (Not offered 2017-2018)

ARCH B204 ANIMALS IN THE ANCIENT ARCH B211 THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND GREEK WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY OF RUBBISH AND Staff RECYCLING This course focuses on perceptions of animals in Astrid Lindenlauf ancient Greece from the Geometric to the This course serves as an introduction to a range of Classical periods. It examines representations of approaches to the study of waste and dirt as well animals in painting, sculpture, and the minor as practices and processes of disposal and arts, the treatment of animals as attested in the recycling in past and present societies. Particular , and how these types of attention will be paid to the interpretation of evidence relate to the featuring of animals in spatial disposal patterns, the power of dirt(y contemporary poetry, tragedy, comedy, and waste) to create boundaries and difference, and medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing types of recycling. (Offered Fall 2017) this rich body of evidence, the course develops a 98 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) ARCH B215 CLASSICAL ART This course uses archaeological evidence to Staff reconstruct social and economic life in South Asia A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and from ca. 1200 to 0 B.C.E. We examine the roles of Rome from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial religion, economy and foreign trade in the times (circa 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major establishment of powerful kingdoms and empires categories of artistic production are examined in that characterized this region during this period. historical and social context, including (Not offered 2017-2018) interactions with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are ARCH B240 ARCHAEOLOGY AND highlighted. (Not offered 2017-2018) HISTORY OF ANCIENT Staff ARCH B217 CAPTIVE GREECE, CAPTOR A survey of the material culture of ? Mesopotamia, modern , from the earliest Alice Donohue phases of state formation (circa 3500 B.C.E.) The Western classical tradition is not monolithic, through the Achaemenid Persian occupation of but contains elements from both ancient Greek the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). Emphasis will be and Roman culture. This course examines the on art, artifacts, monuments, religion, kingship, relationship between the two, from the Hellenistic and the tradition. The survival of the era through the Roman Empire, and its later cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into later ancient consequences, emphasizing the primary evidence and Islamic traditions will also be addressed. of the visual arts and contemporary texts. (Not offered 2017-2018) Suggested preparation: 100-level coursework in history of art, classics, archaeology, or ARCH B244 GREAT EMPIRES OF THE comparative literature. (Offered Spring 2018) ANCIENT NEAR EAST Staff ARCH B226 ARCHAEOLOGY OF A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious ideologies of, and interactions Staff among, the five great empires of the ancient Near One of the cradles of civilization, Anatolia East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: New witnessed the rise and fall of many cultures and Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, states throughout its ancient history. This course the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires in approaches the ancient material remains of pre- Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in . classical Anatolia from the perspective of Near (Not offered 2017-2018) Eastern archaeology, examining the art, artifacts, architecture, cities, and settlements of this land ARCH B252 from the through the Lydian periods. Staff Some emphasis will be on the Late Bronze Age Introduces students to a nearly intact and the Iron Age, especially phases of Hittite and archaeological site whose destruction by the Assyrian imperialism, Late Hittite states, Phrygia, eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was recorded and the Urartu. (Not offered 2017-2018) by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- ARCH B230 ARCHAEOLOGY AND and 19th-century views of the Roman past as well HISTORY OF as styles and preferences of the modern era. Staff Informs students in classical antiquity, urban life, A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient city structure, residential architecture, home Egypt from the Pre-Dynastic through the Graeco- decoration and furnishing, wall painting, minor Roman periods, with special emphasis on Egypt’s arts and craft and mercantile activities within a Empire and its outside connections, especially the Roman city. (Not offered 2017-2018) Aegean and Near Eastern worlds. (Not offered 2017-2018) ARCH B254 CLEOPATRA Staff ARCH B238 LAND OF BUDDHA: THE This course examines the life and rule of ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA, FIRST Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, MILLENIUM B.C.E. and the reception of her legacy in the Early Staff Roman Empire and the western world from the Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 99 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) to modern times. The first part of the the formulation of the “classical ideal” in course explores extant literary evidence regarding antiquity and later times. (Not offered 2017-2018) the upbringing, education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and Ptolemaic ARCH B304 ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar and RELIGION Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her Staff death by suicide in 30 BCE. The second part This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek examines constructions of Cleopatra in Roman religion by focusing on surviving archaeological, literature, her iconography in surviving art, and architectural, epigraphical, artistic and literary her contributions to and influence on both evidence that dates from the Archaic and Ptolemaic and Roman art. A detailed account is Classical periods. By examining a wealth of also provided of the afterlife of Cleopatra in the diverse evidence that ranges, for example, from literature, visual arts, scholarship, and film of temple architecture, and feasting and banqueting both and the United States, extending equipment to inscriptions, statues, vase paintings, from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy and and descriptive texts, the course enables the Shakespearean drama, to ’s art participants to analyze the value and complexity collection at Monticello and Joseph Mankiewicz’s of the archaeology of Greek religion and to 1963 epic film, Cleopatra. (Not offered 2017- recognize its significance for the reconstruction of 2018) daily life in ancient Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such as the duties of priests ARCH B260 DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT and priestesses, the violence of animal sacrifice, GREECE AND ROME the function of cult statues and votive offerings Staff and also the important position of festivals and The often-praised achievements of the classical hero and mystery cults in ancient Greek religious cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. thought and experience. (Not offered 2017-2018) This course surveys the rich body of material and textual evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks ARCH B305 TOPICS IN ANCIENT ATHENS and Romans -- famous and obscure alike -- lived Staff and died. Topics include housing, food, clothing, This is a topics course. Course content varies. work, leisure, and family and social life. (Not (Not offered 2017-2018) offered 2017-2018) ARCH B306 MONUMENTAL PAINTING ARCH B301 GREEK VASE-PAINTING Susanna McFadden Astrid Lindenlauf The Mediterranean tradition of large-scale This course is an introduction to the world of painting begins in prehistoric times and painted pottery of the Greek world, from the 10th continues through Late Antiquity and beyond. to the 4th centuries B.C.E. We will interpret these Important examples survive on the walls of images from an art-historical and socio-economic houses, tombs and other structures at sites in the viewpoint. We will also explore how these images Bronze Age Aegean, in Archaic, Classical and relate to other forms of representation. Hellenistic Anatolia, Macedonia, Magna Graecia, Prerequisite: one course in classical archaeology and Etruria, Rome and the famous sites of or permission of instructor. (Offered Spring 2018) Pompeii and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Technical, artistic, ARCH B303 CLASSICAL BODIES cultural and interpretive issues will be Staff considered. (Offered Fall 2017) An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and ARCH B308 CERAMIC ANALYSIS literature, with emphasis on issues that have Staff persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the fashioning of concepts of male and female the relative chronology of archaeological sites and standards of beauty and their implications; of understanding past human behavior. Included conventions of visual representation; the nude; are theories, methods and techniques of pottery clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; description, analysis and interpretation. Topics physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the include typology, , ceramic visible expression of character and emotions; and characterization, production, function, exchange 100 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY (BRYN MAWR) and the use of computers in pottery analysis. This course explores the link between Laboratory work on pottery in the department archaeology, antiquity and the national collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. imagination in modern Greece from the (Not offered 2017-2018) establishment of the Greek state in the early nineteenth century to present times. Drawing ARCH B312 BRONZE AGE from a variety of disciplines, including history, INTERNATIONALISM archaeology, art history, sociology, anthropology, Staff ethnography, and political science, the course This course explores the rise and fall of the first examines the pivotal role of archaeology and the international age in the eastern Mediterranean. classical past in the construction of national We will focus on the cultural and diplomatic Greek identity. Special emphasis is placed on the connections between Egypt, , Anatolia and concepts of Hellenism and nationalism, the the Aegean during the Bronze Age, c. 2000-1200 European rediscovery of Greece in the Romantic BCE. Prerequisites: ARCH B101 or B216 or B226 era, and the connection between classical or B230 or B240 or B244. (Not offered 2017- archaeology and Philhellenism from the 2018) eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Additional topics of study include the presence of foreign ARCH B314 ANCIENT GREEK SEAFARING archaeological schools in Greece, the Greek AND SHIPWRECKS perception of archaeology, the politics of display Staff in Greek museums, and the importance and This course examines the diverse evidence for power of specific ancient sites, monuments, and ancient Greek seafaring and shipwrecks in the events, such as the Athenian Acropolis, the Mediterranean Sea from to the , and the Olympic Games, in the beginning of the Roman Empire. By focusing on construction and preservation of Greek national archaeological, literary, iconographic, and identity. (Not offered 2017-2018) epigraphic evidence, the course explores ancient Greek, Phoenician, Etruscan, and Roman ARCH B359 TOPICS IN CLASSICAL ART interconnections in the Mediterranean Sea, AND ARCHAEOLOGY through special attention to trade routes, Alice Donohue commerce, colonization, economy, naval and This is a topics course. Topics vary. A research- maritime technology, cultural interactions, sea oriented course taught in seminar format, exploration, and piracy. (Not offered 2017-2018) treating issues of current interest in Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Prerequisites: 200- ARCH B316 TRADE AND TRANSPORT IN level coursework in some aspect of classical or THE ANCIENT WORLD related cultures, archeology, art history, or Cities. Peter Magee Current topic description: TA research-oriented Issues of trade, commerce and production of course taught in seminar format, treating issues export goods are addressed with regard to the of current interest in Greek and Roman art and Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures of archaeology. Prerequisites: 200-level coursework Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and south Asia. in some aspect of classical or related cultures, Crucial to these systems is the development of archeology, art history, or Cities. (Offered Spring means of transport via maritime routes and on 2018) land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of ARCH B398 SENIOR SEMINAR sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while Astrid Lindenlauf bio-archaeological data is employed to examine A weekly seminar on topics to be determined with the transformative role that Bactrian and assigned readings and oral and written reports. Dromedary camels played in ancient trade and (Offered Fall 2017) transport. (Offered Fall 2017) ARCH B399 SENIOR SEMINAR ARCH B329 ARCHAEOLOGY AND Staff NATIONAL IMAGINATION IN MODERN A weekly seminar on common topics with GREECE assigned readings and oral and written reports. Staff (Offered Spring 2018)

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