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Classical Studies 97a: Greek Culture and Civilization Fall 2011

MWF 11.00 am: Boylston 103

Instructor: Paul J. Kosmin ([email protected]) Office hours: Monday 12.00 to 1.00pm, Wednesday 12.00 to 1.00pm in Boylston Hall, Room 215

TFs: Andrew Johnston ([email protected]) Rebecca Katz ([email protected]) Office hours: TBD

Course Description This course will comprehensively cover the extraordinary history of ancient from the Minoan and Mycenaean palace civilizations to the Roman conquest of the East Mediterranean. Students will be introduced to the major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations in and the east Mediterranean. In addition, the class will explore a variety of major textual sources (in translation) and archaeological evidence to investigate the ways in which historians seek to understand the surviving traces of this brilliant ancient culture.

Prescribed Texts and Readings Available at the Harvard Coop, and on reserve in Smyth library: - J. Boardman, J. Griffin, and O. Murrary, Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (Oxford, 2002) - abbreviated as OHG - R. Morkot, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (London, 1997) - abbreviated as HAAG - The Landmark , trans. Andrea Purvis (New York, 2007) - abbreviated as Hdt. NB. These may be available more cheaply for purchase online.

Additional secondary readings (i.e. modern scholarship) will be available in scanned form on the course isite. They are listed below and appear in the weekly schedule as “Additional Reading [number]”.

As there is no adequate source-book, selected ancient primary sources, other than Herodotus, will be available in scanned form on the course isite and in a ring-binder in the Department (from which they should not be removed). They are listed in the weekly schedule.

Examinations Weekly quiz: Students will take a short quiz at the start of every section (Friday) testing basic material covered so far: geography, dates, names, terminology etc. Mid-term and final exams: There will be one in-class mid-term examination (10/14/11) and one final examination (date TBD), each including IDs, short questions on lectures, and description and interpretation of passages from prescribed ancient texts and images of ancient artifacts shown during lectures.

Assignments Students will write two research essays, each of not more than 3000 words. One paper must investigate a topic from either the Bronze Age and archaic period, and the other a topic from either the classical or Hellenistic periods; alternatively, periods can be compared. At least one of the papers must engage significantly with material evidence. The topics can be determined individually, in consultation with the TF and instructor, to suit the interests of each student. Drafts will not be read.

Research Paper 1 is due Fri 10/7/11 Research Paper 2 is due Fri 12/9/11

Assessment Participation in classes and section: 10% Quizzes (average of ten best): 10% Research Paper 1: 20% Mid-term exam: 15% Research Paper 2: 20% Final exam: 25%

List of Additional Readings (available on isite)

1 Chadwick, and Related Scripts (London 1987), chapters 1 and 2 2 Bernardi, Age-class Systems (Cambridge, 1985), pp.1-10, 112-119, 172-173 3 Parker, “Tyrants and Lawgivers” in Shapiro (ed.), Cambridge Companion to (Cambdridge, 2007), pp.201-224 4 Wiesehöfer, Ancient Persia (London, 2007), pp.29-65 5 Ober, “The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BCE” in Doughtery and Kurke (eds.), Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece (New York, 1998), pp.215-232 6 Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton, 2011), pp.9-52 7 , “Democracy and empire”, in Samons (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of (Oxford, 2008), pp.150-179 8 Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Oxford, 2007), pp.110-135 9 Cawkwell, Introduction to , (pp.7-46) 10 Ellis, “The Unification of ” in Hatzopoulos et. al. (ed.), Philip of Macedon (, 2008), pp.36-47 11 Ma, “Kings”, in Erskine (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic World (Oxford, 2003), pp.177-195 12 Gruen, “The in the Hellenistic World”, in Rosen and Farrell (eds.), Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in honor of Martin Ostwald (Ann Arbor, 1993), pp.339-354 13 Shipley, The Greek World After Alexander (London, 2000), pp.368-399

Week 1

Wed 8/31/11 Bronze Age Greece: Cycladic and Minoan civilizationcivilizationss

Fri 9/2/11 The Mycenaean World Reading : HAAG pp.22-29, 36-37; Additional Reading 1* Sources : Linear B documents; Hittite letters

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Week 2

Mon 9/5/11 Labor Day: No Class.

Wed 9/7/11 Bronze Age collapse: and the TrojanTrojan War Reading : OHG chapter 2 – Taplin, “Homer” (pp.47-81); HAAG 30-35 Sources : Hdt. 1.56-58, 1.171, 2.2; Homer, 1, Odyssey 7 and 8; selections from Pharaoh Merneptah’s Great Karnak inscription

Fri 9/9/11 SECTION

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Week 3

Mon 9/12/11 The Dark AgeAgess and the Emergence of the Polis Reading : OHG chapter 1 – Forrest, “Greece: The History of the Archaic Period” (pp.13-46); HAAG 46-53 Sources : Hdt. 4.147-160; 1.2-19, 6.1-5; Cyrene foundation inscription

Wed 9/14/11 and the OrientalizOrientalizinging Revolution Reading : OHG chapter 3 – Griffin, “Greek Myth and Hesiod” (pp.82-106); HAAG 52-53 Sources : Hdt. 2.151-154, 5.58; Hesiod, Theogony

Fri 9/16/11 SECTION

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Week 4

Mon 9/19/11 and Warfare Reading : HAAG 80-81; Additional Reading 2* Sources : Hdt. 2.65-70, 6.56-60; selections from Tyrtaeus; Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

Wed 9/21/11 Lawgivers and Tyrants at Athens Reading : HAAG 56-59; Additional Reading 3* Sources : Hdt. 1.29-33, 1.59-64, 2.177, 4.161-162, 5.71, 5.92; selections from ; [], Constitution of the Athenians 1-17

Fri 9/23/11 SECTION

Week 5

Mon 9/26/11 The Wealth of Gyges: and Reading : OHG chapter 4 – Bowie, “Lyric and Elegiac Poetry” (pp.107-125) Sources : Hdt. 1.6-28, 1.46-56, 1.71-94, 1.141-151, 1.155-156, 1.160-170, 5.28-29; selections from the Presocratic philosophers; selections from and Alcaeus

Wed 9/29/11 The Persian Empire, Eastern SupSuperpowererpower Reading : HAAG 70-71; Additional Reading 4* Sources : Hdt. 1.131-140, 3.67-97, 5.52-54, 7.118-120, 9.108-113; Old Persian inscriptions

Fri 9/30/11 SECTION

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Week 6

Mon 10/3/11 Reading : Additional Reading 5* Sources : Hdt. 5.55-57, 5.62-78, 6.121-131; [Aristotle], Constitution of the Athenians 18-27; dedicatory inscriptions

Wed 10/5/11 Herodotus and the Persian Wars Reading : Additional Reading 6* Sources : Hdt. ideally books 7-9, but certainly 3.133-134, 5.35-38, 5.99-105, 6.6-21, 6.31-33, 6.42, 6.48-49, 7.1-5, 7.32-37, 7.43, 7.59-100, 7.132-136, 7.139-145, 7.201-228, 8.41, 8.51-55, 8.79-99, 8.118, 9.80-82, 9.120-121

Fri 10/7/11 SECTION

ResearchRes earch Paper 1 due.

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Week 7

Mon 10/10/11 Columbus Day: No Class.

Wed 10/12/11 Material culture: statues and vases Reading : OGH chapter 12 - Boardman, “ and Architecture” (pp.330-363); OHG chapter 6 – Hornblower, “Greece: The History of the Classical Period” (pp.142-176)

Fri 10/14/11 Midterm exam

Week 8

Mon 10/17/11 The Athenian Empire Reading : Additional Reading 7* Sources : Required: Old OligarchOligarch;; ThuThucydidescydides 2.342.34----46464646 Recommended: Hdt. 3.80-84, 7.106-107;; Thucydides 1.89-117, 1.128-138, 2.65, 3.8-14

Wed 10/19/11 Thucydides and the Peloponnesian Wars Reading : OHG chapter 8 – Murray, “Greek Historians” (pp.214-239) Sources : Required: Thucydides 1.11.11.1,1.1 111.1391.139.139----146146146,,,, 2.472.47----64646464,, 5.265.26, 5.845.84----116116116, 8.368.36---- 373737,37 8.578.57----59595959 Recommended: Thucydides 1.18-88, 1.118-127, 3.36-50, 3.76-85, 4.84-88, 6.8-29, 8.65-66

Fri 10/21/11 SECTION

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Week 9

Mon 10/24/11 Classical Greek cultural and intellectualintellectual developmedevelopmentsnts Reading : OGH chapter 7 – Levi, “Greek ” (pp.177-213) Sources : , Critias , Republic 1.327a-330c, 7.514a-522d; Aristotle, Politics 1.1-7

Wed 10/26/11 Greek religion and magic Reading : OGH chapter 11 – Robert Parker, “Greek Religion” (pp.306-329) Sources : Cos Sacred Calendar; Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Theocritus, Idyll 2

Fri 10/28/11 SECTION

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Week 10

Mon 10/31/11 The Greek Family and Household Reading : OGH chapter 9 – Murray, “Life and Society in ” (pp.240-276) Sources : Lysias 1; Gortyn lawcode columns 1-4

Wed 11/2/11 and Olympia Reading : Additional Reading 8* Sources : Selections from and Bacchylides; Pausanias, selections from books 5 and 6

Fri 11/4/11 SECTION

Week 11

Mon 11/7/11 Xenophon and fourthfourth----centurycentury Greece Reading : HAAG pp.104-105; Additional Reading 9* Sources : Xenophon, Hellenica , selections

Wed 11/7/11 Philip II and the Rise of Macedonia Reading : HAAG pp.72-73, 102-103, 106-107; Additional Reading 10* Sources : Arrian, Anabasis 7.9; , Third Philippic

Fri 11/11/11 Veterans’ Day: No Class.

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Week 12

Mon 11/14/11 and the Conquest of Persia Reading : HAAG pp.120-123; OHG chapter 13 – Price, “The History of the ” (pp.364-389) Sources : , Alexander

Wed 11/16/11 The Hellenistic Kingdoms Reading : HAAG pp.124-129; Additional Reading 11* Sources : Appian, Syriaca , selections; Borsippa Cylinder; selections from 2 Maccabees ; inscriptions

Fri 11/18/11 SECTION

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Week 13

Mon 11/21/11 The Hellenistic Polis Reading : Additional Reading 12* Sources : 16.25- 26; Tyriaion inscription; selections from Plutarch, Demetrius Poliorcetes

Wed 11/23/11 Thanksgiving Recess: No Class.

Fri 11/25/11 Thanksgiving Recess: No Class.

Week 14

Mon 11/28/11 Hellenistic religion and philosophy Reading : OHG chapter 15 – Barnes, “Hellenistic Philosophy and Science” (pp.421-446) Sources : Euhemerus, Hiera Anagraphe ; Theocritus, Idyll 17; ithyphallic hymn for Demetrius Poliorcetes

Wed 11/30/11 Polybius and the Coming of Rome Reading : HAAG pp.130-133; Additional Reading 13* Sources : Selections from Polybius

Fri 12/2/11 SECTION

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Fri 12/9/11 Research Paper 2 due.