GREEK ART & ARCHAEOLOGY CLSX 526 (26788, 26789) / HA 526 (26816, 26817) / HWC 500 (26951, 26952) (Spring 2004; TTh 1:00-2:20; Spencer Museum 211) Last update: 8 March 2004

The "Hephaisteion" Athens (ca. 440 BCE)

JOHN G. YOUNGER

Professor, Classics, and Humanities & Western Civilization

2110 Wescoe

TEL 864-3263

email: jyounger@ku.edu

www: http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/

Office Hours: BY APPOINTMENT

For appointments, please sign up for a time on the sign-up sheet on my office door (name and email address) at least TWO (2) days in advance.

Textbooks

William R. Biers, The Archaeology of Greece

R. Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Reserve Readings are listed at the end of the syllabus; they will be both hard copies on Watson Reserve, and E-Reserves.

Handbooks and General Material on Reserve

Boardman, Greek Art & Architecture, N5630 .G713

Camp, The Athenian Agora, DF287.A23 C36 1986

Dinsmoor, Greek Architecture, NA270 .D5 1950

Langlotz & Hirmer, Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy & Sicily, folio NB91.I8 L33

Langlotz, Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy & Sicily, folio NB91.I8 L33

Lullies & Hirmer, Greek Sculpture, folio NB90 .L813 1957

Mattusch, Greek Bronze Statuary

Mattusch, Classical Bronzes, NB135 .M38 1996

Mattusch, Greek Bronze Statuary, NB140 .M38 1988

Pollitt, Ancient View of Greek Art, N7476 .P64

Pollitt, Art & Experience, N5630 .P54 1972

Richter, Handbook of Greek Art, folio NB91.I8 L33

Richter, Handbook of Greek Art, N5630 .R49 1987b

Robertson, Greek Painting, NK4645 .R7 1992

Robertson, Art of Vase Painting, NK4645 .R7 1992

Robertson, History of Greek Art, N5630 .R63

Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration., NB90 .S74 1990

Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens, NA280 .T68

Ward-Perkins, Cities of Ancient Greece & Italy, HT166 .W25 1974

Requirements

Tests (midterm 18 March; final 20 May [Th] 1:30-4:00 pm)

NOTE: on the midterm you will be asked to draw a map of Greece and to locate 10 important sites.
To do this, you should start practicing drawing a map and start looking at an ancient atlas.
On Reserve: Morkot, R., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece, G1033 .M67 1996

Written Work

12 Feb: Exercise 1 (description of & reaction to a Greek artifact in the Wilcox Collection (Lippincott Hall); a list of acceptable objects is given in the description of Exercise 1)

11 Mar: Proposal for Term Paper/Project (maximum: 2 pp. + bibliography); list of suggested topics at end of syllabus

12 Apr: Exercise 2 (write-up on the Greek artifact in Wilcox [Lippincott Hall])

13 May: Term Papers/Projects Due

To do well in this course, you should attend all class sessions, do the readings, speak up in class, ask questions, and get me to know who you are. It's that simple.

Table of Contents

Syllabus

Topic Suggestions & Requirements for Term Papers / Projects

Requirements for the Exercises

Books & Articles on Watson Reserves & E-Reserves

Chronology of Greek Art

Chronology of Greek History

Kapatija: www sites for the Classical world

Classical & Archaeological discussion lists

SYLLABUS

Week 1 (27 & 29 Jan): Introduction to the Course. The Bronze Age: Prelude & Continuity

Required Readings

Biers: chs. 1-3

Osborne: Introduction, ch. 3 (chs. 1 & 2, to skim)

Recommended Browsing

Hood, Arts in Prehistoric Greece, N5310.5.G8 H66

Graham, Palaces of Crete, DF221.C8 G7 1987

Week 2 (3 & 5 Feb): The Geometric Period: Recovery

Required Readings

Biers: chs. 4 & 5

Osborne: ch. 4

Recommended Browsing

Fagerström, Greek Iron Age Architecture, folio NA270 .F34 1988

Hurwit, Art and Culture of Early Greece, NX551.A1 H87 1985

Langdon, From Pasture to Polis, NK670 .F76 1993

12 Feb: Exercise 1 is DUE

Week 3 (10 & 12 Feb): The Orientalizing Period: Colonization

Required Readings

Biers: ch. 6

Osborne: ch. 5

Week 4 (17 & 19 Feb): The Archaic Period: Early 6th Century

Required Readings

Biers: ch. 7

Osborne: ch. 6

Recommended Browsing

Younger's Supplement Vol. 2: Tobin, "The Doric Groundplan"

Younger's Supplement Vol. 2: L Bonfante, "Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art"

Richter, Korai, folio NB94 .R52

Richter, Kouroi, NB94 .R53

Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, NK4648 .B62 1974

Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period, NB90 .B62

Ridgway, Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture, NB90 .R56 1993

Richter, Shapes & Names of Athenian Vases, NK4645 .R63

Week 5 (24 & 26 Feb): The Archaic Period: Late 6th Century

Recommended Browsing

Boardman, Athenian Red-Figure Vases. The Archaic Period., NK4649 .B62

Etruscan Painting, folio ND2565 .E87 1986

Pallottino, Etruscan Painting, ND130.E8 P33

Rider, Greek House, DF99 .R5 1965

von Bothmer, D., The Amasis Ptr & his world, ND115.A55 A4 1985

Euphronios, ND115.E8 E94 1991

Rasmussen & Spivey, Looking at Greek Vases, NK4645 .L66 1991

Week 6 (2 & 4 Mar): Wars with the East (Persia & Carthage): Near Collapse

Required Readings

Biers: ch. 8

Osborne: ch. 7

Recommended Browsing

Ridgway, Severe Style in Greek Sculpture, NB90 .R57

Adams, The Technique of Greek Sculpture, NB90 .A27

Bluemel, Greek Sculptors at Work, NB90 .B552 1969

Coulton, Ancient Greek Architects at Work, NA270 .C65 1977

Dinsmoor, Greek Architecture, NA270 .D5 1950

Burford, Greek Temple Builders at Epidaurus, DF261.E6 B8 1969

11 Mar: Term Paper/Project Proposals DUE

Week 7 (9 & 11 Mar): The Early Classical Period: Regaining Control

Recommended Browsing

Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period, NB94 .B62 1985b

Houser, Greek Monumental Bronze Sculpture, NB140 .H68 1987

Finn, Greek Monumental Bronze Sculpture, folio NB140 .F5 1983

Ashmole & Frantz, Olympia, NB91.O6 A78

Yalouris, Olympic Games, folio GV721.5 .H413

Week 8 (16 Mar): The Athens Acropolis Project

Required Readings

Osborne: ch. 8

Recommended Browsing

Younger's Supplement Vol. 1: Tobin, "The Canon of Polykleitos"

Boardman & Finn, Parthenon & Its Sculptures, folio NB91.A7 B63 1985

Ridgway, Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture, NB87.P76 R457

Brommer, Der Parthenonfries, folio NB91.A7 B86

Brommer, Die Metopen des Parthenon, folio NA281 .B7

Brommer, Die Skulpturen der Parthenon Giebel, folio NB91.A7 B87

Carrey, Drawings of the Parthenon Sculptures, folio NC248.C32 B6

Neils, The Parthenon Frieze, NA2965 .N45 2001

Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze, NB91.A7 J46 1994

18 Mar: MIDTERM

20-28Mar: SPRING BREAK

Week 9 (30 Mar & 1 Apr): The High Classical Period: War & Romance

Recommended Browsing

Younger's Supplement Vol. 1: Cooper, "The Temple of Apollo at Bassae"

Cooper, Temple of Athena Bassitas, NA285.B3 C67 1992 vols. 2 & 4

Boardman, Athenian Red-Figure Vases. The Classical Period.., NK4649 .B624 1989

Paton et al., Erechtheum, oversize NA283.E7 P3

Stewart, Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece, N5633 .S74 1997

Week 10 (6 & 8 Apr): Early Fourth Century: Peace & Skirmish

Required Readings

Biers: ch. 9

Osborne: ch. 9

Recommended Browsing

13 April: Exercise 2 is DUE

Week 11 (13 & 15 Apr): Middle Fourth Century: New Forms in Architecture

Recommended Browsing

Bieber, History of the Greek & Roman Theater, PA3201 .B52 1961

Hill & Williams, The Temple of Zeus at Nemea, oversize DF261.N4 H56 1966

Miller et al., Temple of Zeus at Nemea, NA285.N46 T46 1983

Week 12 (20 & 22 Apr): Late Fourth Century: New Forms in Painting

Recommended Browsing

Bruno, Form & Color in Greek Painting, ND110 .B78 1977

Trendall, Red figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily, NK4649 .T73 1989

Week 13 (27 & 29 Apr): Late Fourth Century: Internationalism

Recommended Browsing

Havelock, Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors, NB163.V62 C575 1995

Ridgway, Fourth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture, NB90 .R564

Andronicos, Vergina, DF221.V4 A7

Week 14 (4 & 6 May): Early Hellenistic: The New Order

Required Readings

Biers: ch. 10

Osborne: ch. 10

Recommended Browsing

Havelock, Hellenistic Art, N5630 .H37 1981

Lehmann, Samothrace: A Guide, 913.3911 L528s 1955

Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture, NB94 .R535 1990 2 vols

Kunze, Pergamon Altar, NB91.P4 K86 1991

Schmidt, The Great Altar of Pergamon, folio NB91.P4 S33 1965

Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age, N5630 .P55 1986

Richter, Greek Portraits, NB90 .R53

Vaphopoulou-Richardson, C. E., Greek Terracottas, NB155 .V36 1981

Week 15 (11 & 13 May): Late Hellenistic: East Meets Rome

Required Readings

Biers: Epilogue

Osborne:

Recommended Browsing

Marcadé, Eros Kalos, folio N8217.E6 M283 1965

Johns, Sex or Symbol, HQ13 .J63 1982

Dunbabin, Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World, NA3760 .D86 1999

Ling, Ancient Mosaics, NA3760 .L46 1998

13 May: TERM PAPERS DUE

TERM PAPERS / PROJECTS

From the list below, select a subject for your term paper or a term project.

PAPER TOPICS

The Iconographical Program of the Parthenon

Emergence of the Female Body in Greek Vase-Painting

Depictions of Death in Athenian Tombstones of the Fourth Century

Decorative Detail in Sixth Century Architecture

PROJECT TOPICS

TAKEN: 4 Sessions of Parthenon Cast Cleaning & Repair (Saturdays, 9-11 am, beginning 6 March)

TAKEN: Updating the mythological index for the Classics Slide Collection (4-6 people)

Construct a web-guide/links to the complete works on-line of a vase-painter

TAKEN: Prepare Study Guides for the Wilcox Collection

Special: Cast Cleaning
To apply for cast cleaning (Saturdays, 9-11 am, beginning 6 March), please submit on 2 March a short (2 pp) paper about the Parthenon frieze (with at least 4 footnotes, 3 of which must come from journal articles); a 3rd page should include bibliography with at least 4 sources, 3 of which are journal articles.

For other papers/projects, you must submit a Proposal (if project, this write-up must relate to its subject).

Proposal (what you plan to do & why) -- due 12 March

length: 2 pages plus bibliography

footnotes: at least 4, 3 of which must come from journal articles

bibliography: at least 4 sources, 3 of which are journal articles

The Term Paper

Submission -- 12 May

length: 8-10 pages plus supporting materials (illustrations, bibliography)

footnotes: at least 16, 6 of which must come from journal articles

bibliography: at least 10 sources, of which 4 are journal articles

The paper should follow this format:

Abstract (1 short paragraph [no more than 50 words] at the beginning)

Headings

divide your paper into clear sections and title each in bold (e.g., Introduction, The Problem, The Evidence, Methodology, Conclusion)

Footnotes -- see separate site on Footnote citations

Bibliography -- see separate site on Bibliography citations

EXERCISES

EXERCISE 1: SHORT PAPER on an OBJECT in the Wilcox Collection (Lippincott Hall)

DUE: 12 Feb

Notes

1) Pick an object you really like -- you will use it as your subject for Ex. 2.

2) Under NO circumstances are you to use any archival material, texts, library research, etc. for this project (for Ex. 2, you will use supporting materials).

3) Your grade will be based upon

adherence to the guidelines below

vocabulary and grammar

inventiveness of description and response (= creativity, not fictional exhuberence)

Guidelines

You are to write a short (5 page maximum, double spaced, 1 inch margins) paper in 3 parts:

1) Abstract: 1 paragraph, single spaced, at the beginning of the paper, identifying the object you are discussing.

2) A Formal, Organized Description of the object (1 paragraph): describe the object physically in a severely organized fashion (e.g., bottom to top), including the elements that you will discuss in the 3rd section.

3) Your Subjective Opinion: this may come as a set of emotional reactions, your inference of the significance of this object, your intellectual response

under NO circumstances is this section to express your amazement at the object's age or its incomparable beauty as an ancient work of Grecian art ("Grecian" is also a no-no).

Signpost the 3 sections of the paper: Abstract
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Description
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Reactions
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Acceptable objects in the Wilcox Collection (Lippincott Hall)

Greek objects in the glass cases in the inner room (coins, lamps, pottery, votive objects, terracotta figurines, architectural terracottas)

plaster casts in the main room (clockwise order as you enter): Victory of Samothrace, Parthenon material (metopes, frieze, Dionysos from the east pediment), Venus di Milo, head of Apollo from west pediment at Olympia, discus thrower by Myron, Hermes & baby Dionysos by Praxiteles.

plaster casts in the inner room: Hegeso relief, Orpheus & Eurydice relief, Demosthenes, Sophocles

EXERCISE 2: SHORT PAPER with NOTES on an OBJECT in the Wilcox Collection (Lippincott Hall)
DUE: 13 Apr

Short Starting Bibliography

Venus di Milo: see M. Bieber, Hellenistic Sculpture, p. 160, figs. 673-7

Victory of Samothrace: see M. Bieber, Hellenistic Sculpture, pp. 125-6, figs. 493-6

Notes

1) For this paper, you are to use supporting materials (bibliography, notes, comparative illustrations).

2) Your grade will be based upon

adherence to the guidelines below

vocabulary and grammar

inventiveness of description and analysis (= creativity)

Guidelines

You are to write a short (6 pages maximum, plus supporting materials [Bibliography, Captioned Illustrations]) paper based on the paper submitted for Ex. 1, in 3 or 4 parts:

1) Abstract: 1 paragraph, single spaced, at the beginning of the paper, summarizing your discussion and conclusion.

2) A Formal Analysis of the object (double spaced and signposted [e.g., Introduction, Problem, Discussion, Conclusion]:

a short description of the object should precede your analysis

the analysis may consider the object's original use, its place in an art historical development, the significance of its iconography, a problem in chronology, use or significance. The analysis must include at least 12 single-space footnotes that appear at the bottom of the page that contains the text to which they refer; for citation formats, follow the guidelines set forth in my Citation Formats for Bibliographies and Notes.

3) A bibliography of at least 5 sources (books and journal articles); you may also add additional Internet sources; for citation formats, follow the guidelines set forth in my Citation Formats for Bibliographies and Notes.

4) Comparative material is always helpful in solving or elucidating a problem -- illustrations can be given after the Bibliography; if illustrations are to be used, they should be numbered (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.), their appropriate place in the text should be noted (texttexttext [Fig. 1] texttexttext); each illustration needs to be captioned (proper identification of the piece illustrated and a fully referenced source for the illustration; a full bibliographic reference for the source should also appear in the Bibliography).

Books on Watson Reserve

Call Number	Author	Title
NB90 .A27	Adams	The Technique of Greek Sculpture
DF221.V4 A7	Andronicos	Vergina
NB91.O6 A78	Ashmole & Frantz	Olympia
PA3201 .B52 1961	Bieber	History of the Greek & Roman Theater
DF77 .B58 1996	Biers	The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
NB90 .B552 1969	Bluemel	Greek Sculptors at Work
folio NB91.A7 B63 1985	Boardman & Finn	Parthenon & Its Sculptures
N5630 .G713	Boardman	Greek Art & Architecture
ND110 .B78 1977	Bruno	Form & Color in Greek Painting
DF261.E6 B8 1969	Burford	Greek Temple Builders at Epidaurus
DF287.A23 C36 1986	Camp	The Athenian Agora
oversize NA283.E7 P3	Paton et al.	Erechtheum
NA285.B3 C67 1992 vols. 2 & 4	Cooper	Temple of Athena Bassitas
NA270 .C65 1977	Coulton	Ancient Greek Architects at Work
NA270 .D5 1950	Dinsmoor	Greek Architecture
NA3760 .D86 1999	Dunbabin	Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World
NA3760 .L46 1998	Ling	Ancient Mosaics
NK4645 .L66 1991	Rasmussen & Spivey	Looking at Greek Vases
NK4648 .B62 1974	Boardman	Athenian Black Figure Vases
NK4649 .B62	Boardman	Athenian Red-Figure Vases. The Archaic Period.
NB90 .B62	Boardman	Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period
NB94 .B62 1985b	Boardman	Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period
NK4649 .B624 1989	Boardman	Athenian Red-Figure Vases. The Classical Period..
folio NA270 .F34 1988	Fagerström	Greek Iron Age Architecture
NB140 .H68 1987	Houser	Greek Monumental Bronze Sculpture
folio NB140 .F5 1983	Finn	Greek Monumental Bronze Sculpture
DF221.C8 G7 1987	Graham	Palaces of Crete
NB163.V62 C575 1995	Havelock	Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors
N5630 .H37 1981	Havelock	Hellenistic Art
NB155 .V36 1981	Vaphopoulou-Richardson, C. E.	Greek Terracottas
oversize DF261.N4 H56 1966	Hill & Williams	The Temple of Zeus at Nemea
NA285.N46 T46 1983	Miller et al.	Temple of Zeus at Nemea
N5310.5.G8 H66	Hood	Arts in Prehistoric Greece
HQ13 .J63 1982	Johns	Sex or Symbol
NB91.P4 K86 1991	Kunze	Pergamon Altar
folio NB91.I8 L33	Langlotz & Hirmer	Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy & Sicily
913.3911 L528s 1955	Lehmann	Samothrace: A Guide
folio NB90 .L813 1957	Lullies & Hirmer	Greek Sculpture
folio N8217.E6 M283 1965	Marcadé	Eros Kalos
NB135 .M38 1996	Mattusch	Classical Bronzes
NB140 .M38 1988	Mattusch	Greek Bronze Statuary
folio ND2565 .E87 1986		Etruscan Painting
ND130.E8 P33	Pallottino	Etruscan Painting
N7476 .P64	Pollitt	Ancient View of Greek Art
N5630 .P54 1972	Pollitt	Art & Experience
N5630 .P55 1986	Pollitt	Art in the Hellenistic Age
N5630 .R49 1987b	Richter	Handbook of Greek Art
folio NB94 .R52	Richter	Korai
NB90 .R53	Richter	Greek Portraits
NB94 .R53	Richter	Kouroi
NK4645 .R63	Richter	Shapes & Names of Athenian Vases
DF99 .R5 1965	Rider	Greek House
NB90 .R56 1993	Ridgway	Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
NB87.P76 R457	Ridgway	Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
NB90 .R564	Ridgway	Fourth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
NB94 .R535 1990 2 vols	Ridgway	Hellenistic Sculpture
NB90 .R57	Ridgway	Severe Style in Greek Sculpture
NK4645 .R7 1992	Robertson	Art of Vase Painting
N5630 .R63	Robertson	History of Greek Art
folio NB91.P4 S33 1965	Schmidt	The Great Altar of Pergamon
N5633 .S74 1997	Stewart	Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece
NB90 .S74 1990	Stewart	Greek Sculpture: An Exploration.
NA280 .T68	Travlos	Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens
NK4649 .T73 1989	Trendall	Red figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily
HT166 .W25 1974	Ward-Perkins	Cities of Ancient Greece & Italy
folio GV721.5 .H413	Yalouris	Olympic Games
ART ND115.A55 A4 1985	von Bothmer, D.	The Amasis Ptr & his world
ART ND115.E8 E94 1991		Euphronios
EDWARDS NX551.A1 H87 1985	Hurwit	Art and Culture of Early Greece
ART folio NB91.A7 B86	Brommer	Der Parthenonfries
ART folio NA281 .B7	Brommer	Die Metopen des Parthenon
ART folio NB91.A7 B87	Brommer	Die Skulpturen der Parthenon Giebel
ART folio NC248.C32 B6	Carrey	Drawings of the Parthenon Sculptures
ART & ART RES NA2965 .N45 2001	Neils	The Parthenon Frieze
WATSON RES NB91.A7 J46 1994	Jenkins	The Parthenon Frieze

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