TTTopics to be Covered (*nb: Please expect
some degree of flexibility in the progression of topics.)
Week 1: Feb.
10 Course introduction – overview of the gods of Greece and Rome
12 Greece in the Bronze Age – Minoans,
the Palace of Minos, Snake Goddesses and Bull Leaping
Week 2: 17:
Santorini – the so-called Naval Fresco, Mycenae, and the Fall of Troy
19: Dark Age and Geometric Greece- Funeral
Games and other fun
Week 3: 24:
The city of Athens : Historical background, Solon, Pericles and Alcibiades
26: The Panathenaic Festival and the Acropolis
Week 4: Mar.
2 Dionysus and the Origins of the Greek Theater
4: Daily life in Classical Athens, the
Agora
Week 5: 9:
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
11: quiz
- Epidauros and the Cult of Asklepios
Week 6: 16:
Olympia and the Olympic Games
18: Delphi and the Oracle
Week 7: 30:
Early history of Rome, Romulus & Remus and other tales
Apr. 1 Etruscans and tomb parties
Week 8: 6:
The Roman Republic and its festivals – Roman religion -
mini-outline of final project due (one paragraph-one page)
8: Daily life in ancient Rome and the
evidence of Pompeii
Week 9: 13:
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” film – special
class
evening screening (7:30,
Smith
210); no daytime class
15: Julius Caesar, et tu Brute?
Week 10 20:
quiz
, Augustus, the beginning of empire, the new state propaganda
22: Tiberius and Caligula – paranoia and
dementia
Week 11: 27: Claudius
and Nero – more spectacles and more madness
29: Flavian Rome, the Colosseum and Gladiators
Week 12: May 4 “Gladiator”
– special class,
evening screening (7:00) Kirkbride 205,
no daytime class
6: The Roman Triumph - guest lecturer
Week 13: Trajan,
the Circus Maximus, Chariot Racing; Hadrian and the Villa Hadriana
13: last
quiz,
the Roman obsession with baths, Baths of Diocletian and Caracalla
Week 14: 18: paper
due, course retrospective
READINGS:
Weeks 1 & 2: Ancient
Greece, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Week 3: Ancient
Greece Chapter 3 ; "Solon" and "Pericles" in Plutarch's Lives
Weeks 4-6: Ancient
Greece Chapters 5-8 (remember you don't need to know everything in
the book - read to reinforce lectures, focusing on major historical events,
Solon, Pericles, festivals, the city of Athens and her buildings, life
in Athens); at the very end, read the life of Alcibiades in Plutarch's
Lives.
Week 7: Read chapters
1-3 (I-III) (not very long) in The Romans.
Week 8: Read chapter
5 (V) in The Romans, and "Julius Caesar" in Suetonius: The Twelve
Caesars.
Week 9: Read chapter
4 (IV) in The Romans and "Augustus" in Suetonius: The Twelve
Caesars.
Week 10: Read Suetonius
" Tiberius" and "Caligula"
Week 11: Read Suetonius
"Claudius" and "Nero"
Remaining weeks : use Christ's book as a reference
as needed; concentrate on the final project.
Study Guide, quiz 3:
1. How did Augustus employ architecture and art
to convey a "message" about his "program" for re-builiding and remythologizing
Rome? What was that message?
2. What sorts of structures do we associate with
Tiberius, and what do they tell us about that emperor?
3. Caligula and Nero made spectacles of themselves.
How did they do this? (review notes and Suetonius)
4. What was Nero's most infamous building project,
and what was its ultimate fate?
5. What are ludi (there are two definitions)?
6. How did public games in Rome differ from games/festivals
in Greece? How were they similar?
7. What was everyone's favorite holiday in Rome?
8. How did the Roman theater differ from the
Greek (both structurally and in dramatic programs offered)?
9. What was the purpose of a Roman triumph? Who
took part in triumphal processions, and where did they culminate?
10. What is an "Ovation"? Who could have a triumph?
11. Review the main characters in "Gladiatior."
How accurately were the events and persons in the movie portrayed (from
a historical perspective)?
12. When were gladiatorial contests staged and
where? Who were the gladiators, and how were they trained and treated?
What sorts of costumes and equipment did the gladiators use? How were the
fights regulated?
13. What were the venationes?
Study Guide, quiz 2:
1. Olympia - To what god was this sanctuary dedicated?
What mythological figures are associated with the beginning of the Olympic
Games? Who competed in the games and for what?
2. Delphi - To what god was this sanctuary dedicated?
Why did so many people go to Delphi all year round? What do we know about
the priestess of Apollo? What was the source of her "inspiration"?
- in other words, how did she become able to receive the word of the god?
How did people go about consulting the oracle? What was the name
of the games that took place at this sanctuary, and with what sort of competition
did they originate?
3. What do we know about the Eleusinian Mysteries?
In honor of what deities were these performed? What do we know about the
Brauronia and Arkteia?
4. Study the mythology of Asclepius (his parentage
and major deeds). Why did people visit his sanctuary at Epidaurus, and
what did they do once they were there?
5. What did the Roman house look like on the
inside and on the outside? What were Roman meals like, and where were they
prepared?
What did the Romans wear? What was the morning
ritual of the wealthy Roman (hair, makeup, etc)? Did the Romans have slaves,
and what
" place" did they have in the family? What were
the standard parts of the Roman name?
6. Review the mythological history of the Romans.
Who was their Trojan ancestor? Who founded Rome?
7. Who was Hannibal, and how did he get to Italy?
8. Who were the members of the First Triumvirate?
Why did these men join forces? What was the ultimate outcome of their arrangement?
9. Who was Cleopatra, and how does she figure
into Roman history?
10. Who were the members of the Second Triumvirate?
What relation to Julius Caesar did one of them have? Why did they
join forces? What was the ultimate outcome of their arrangement?
11. Is there anything authentically Roman about
the plot of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"? Is it based
on the work of a Roman author? What dioes it owe to Greece? What
does this film tell us about Roman taste in dramatic performances? What,
briefly, is the plot of this film?
Study Guide, quiz 1:
1. What do we know (or think we know) about Minoan
civilization? What evidence do we have? Why is this culture called Minoan?
Are there any spectacles that we can reconstruct belonging to this culture?
2. What do we know about Mycenean civilization?
Do we know less or more about Mycenean "politics" and religion than we
do about Minoan? What is the source of our information about this culture?
3. Who were Solon, Peisistratos, and Cleisthenes?
These figures, who belong to the so-called Archaic Period in Greece, were
responsible for certain political measures and spectacle-refinements. What
was Solon known for in particular, and what does Plutarch's "Life of Solon"
tell us about Athenian life generally in this period? What role did Peisistratos
play in shaping the City Dionysia and Greater Panathenaia?
4. How did the Persian Wars influence Athenian
attitudes about themselves? What role did Pericles play in shaping the
physical appearance of 5th century Athens? Why did he believe it was important
to institute changes?
5. What was the Panathenaia, and what events did
it consist of? What was the purpose of this festival? Where was it held?
What evidence do we have for recreations of the festival?
6. What is the City Dionysia? Was this a secular
or religious festival? Try to reconstruct the origins of drama and theatrical
production. Where were plays produced. (P.S. The City Dionysia was not
the only dramatic festival in Athens, merely the greatest. The Lenaea and
Rural Dionysia were both festivals of Dionysus at which tragedies and comedies
were produced. We know less about these festivals, but we do know that
they were mid-winter festivals.)
Footnote guidelines:
There are many ways of composing footnotes correctly,
and I will provide you with two different ways here. You can choose the
method you prefer.
*** I have added examples of referencing
CD-ROMs and websites below.
Type 1:
For first-time references to a work, provide
all pertinent information as follows:
1
David Cressy, Birth, Mariage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life
Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (New York: Oxford UP, 1997) 32.
* what you have here is: author, title, place of publication and press,
date of publication, and page/s cited in your essay. For an article you
would cite: author, title of article (in quotes " "), journal title,
volume, date of publication and pages as follows:
1 Frederick Barthelme, "Architecture," Kansas Quarterly 13
(1981) 77-90.
If you refer to a work again in your paper, use
the following abbreviations: (use just last name of author, abbreviated
title, and page cited)
12 Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death 278.
***If you cite only one work by a particular
author, you may abbreviate the subsequent reference even further: last
name and page (Cressy 278)
Type 2:
Create a list of works cited, and place
that list at the end of your essay. In this list you would provide the
following information:
author (last name first), title, place of publication and press, date of
publication, and (for a journal article) the pages of the article.
example:
Giesecke, Annette. Atoms, Ataraxy, and Allusion. Hildesheim: Georg
Olms Verlag, 2002. (Hildesheim is the place
of publication, and Georg Olms is the press)
example
of an article: Giesecke, Annette. "Elpenor, Amymone, and the Truth in the
Lykaon Painter's Painting." BABesch 74 (1999): 63-78. (Here
BABesch is the title of the journal; this is followed by the volume number,
the date of publication in brackets, a colon, and the pages on which the
article appears).
In the text of your essay, the footnotes
themselves can then take the form of the short citation type shown above
(for subsequent references to a work, footnote type 1):
(use
just last name of author, abbreviated title, and page cited)
12 Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death 278.
***If you cite only one work by a particular author,
you may abbreviate the subsequent reference even further: last name and
page (Cressy 278)
For CD's and websites, use the following formats:
"Albatross." The Oxford English Dictionary.
2nd ed. CD-ROM. Oxford : Oxford UP, 1992.
Holland, Norman. "Overcoming Depression." Online
posting. 19. Mar. 1997. <http://www.class.ufl.edu/ipsa/psyart.htm>.