ARY 302/CC 302K

WEB SITE: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc302k/

This is where you will find handouts, some images, web links. Download the handout for each class beforehand and bring it to class.

Caution: the web site is an aid to study, not a substitute for attending class. Some information and short assignments will be given only in class. Not all information and images covered in class will be posted to the web site. You are responsible for material presented in class, as well as on the handouts and in the reading assignments.

CONTENTS

1. Instructors.
2. Course Summary and Grading.
3. Other Business Matters.
4. Texts.
5. Good web links.
6. Syllabus. Contains links to daily handouts.
7. Egypt.
8. Near East.
9. Greece.
10. Rome.

Instructors

Professor: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Office: WAG 117
Office Hours: MWF 10-11 and by appointment
E-mail: cwshelm@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 471-3892

TA: Deanna Mellican

Office: WAG 14C
Office Hours: M 3-4, T/TH 12:30-1:30
E-mail: dmellican@yahoo.com
Phone: 471-2376

Now you know who we are, talk to us! And let us get to know you. Come by, call, or email one of us whenever you are puzzled or intrigued by what you hear in class.

Course summary

This course surveys the ancient civilizations of Egypt and the Near East, the Aegean cultures of Crete and Mycenae, and the world of classical Greece and Italy. We will examine important sites and excavations such as the Giza pyramids and King Tut's tomb, Ur and Babylon, Troy and Mycenae, the Athenian Acropolis, the sanctuary at Olympia, and the cities of Rome and Pompeii. The course is intended as an introduction to the sites, monuments and artifacts of these civilizations, not as a series of studies in archaeological theory and practice. Therefore, it will be very different from ARY 301.

At the same time, we shall try to compare the cultures studied, to see how each evolved, and to define through what they have left behind what makes each similar, or distinctive. The data are archaeological; the approach will be to use these data to reconstruct history. Some attention will be paid to the story of how each culture was (re)discovered in the modern era, and how each is studied today.

Grading

Grades will be based on four hour tests, each covering a section of the course. The last test will be given on the last class day. The four tests will count 22 % each. From time to time there will be short assignments to hand in; together these will add up to 12%. No other work may be added or substituted; everyone will be evaluated on the same material and in the same way. Makeup tests will not be offered except in cases of emergency.

Other Business Matters

• You are responsible for attending the class meetings in general, and the tests in particular. I will not give make-up tests except for genuine emergencies; if one arises, you must get word to me immediately. Homework assignments will not be accepted after the due date.
  
• Scholastic dishonesty on any graded assignment will result in a grade of zero. Scholastic dishonesty includes any kind of cheating; consult the General information catalogue, Appendix, Section 11-802 (http://www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/catalogs/gi03-04/app/appc11.html). Among other things, this means that any written work you turn in must show clearly your own ideas and the facts and ideas you got from other sources. Whether you copy word for word or just use the ideas from a book, web site, etc., you must provide footnotes for the exact source (bibliographical reference and page numbe, URL; etc.) of every piece of information you use.
  
• The University of Texas at Austin provides, upon request, appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259 or 471-4641, or the information online (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/ssd/index.html).
  
• If you are going to miss work because of a religious holiday, you can make it up if you bring documentation of the holiday fourteen days ahead of time.
  
• Dropping the course: Some students are not aware that after the 4th week of classes a Q drop is not automatic. If you decide to drop the course then, I will assign a Q if your grade so far is C or better, or an F if it is not. This is the university rule; you can see the full versiion at: http://www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/catalogs/gi03-04/ch4/ch4f.html#dropping.
  

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Texts

There are two required textbooks and a reading packet:

Textbooks

• D.B. Nagle, The Ancient World, a Social and Cultural History, 5th ed. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River New Jersey 2002)
• M. Stokstad, Art History part 1, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River New Jersey 2002)

Stokstad is art history survey which describes the monuments we will be discussing in class. It also includes time lines and maps, and is a good way to review names, dates and places. Nagle is organized chronologically, so we will skip around in it in order to study Egypt and the other civilizations one at a time. Short fun readings will be posted on the web. But the most important way to study in this course is to be there to see the slides, and to use the class handouts. These will be posted on the web, and hard copies will be available in class for anyone who wants one.

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Good Web Links

• General
  • Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page: http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/welcome.html
  • links to web sites on archaeology worldwide: http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/archtoc.html (ArchNet: World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology)
  • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
• Egypt
  • general sources: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
  • general sources: http://www.cofc.edu/~piccione/weblinks.html
  • general sources: http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/egypt/
  • Zoser's step pyramid complex at Saqqara: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html
  • Great pyramids at Giza: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
  • Giza Mapping Project: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html
• Near East
  • ABZU: http://www.etana.org/abzu/
    • indexes all known internet resources about the ancient Near East, including Egypt
  • general sources: http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/middle_east/index.shtml
  • Some sources to start with for the Near East assignment due Friday 5 March:
    • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0611_030611_iraqlootingreport3.html
    • http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2003/Sept/baghdadreport.html
    • http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/index2.htm
    • https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/iraqcrisis/2003-May/000021.html
    • http://www.minervamagazine.com/exclusives/jme_iraq/jme_iraq_01.html
• Greece
  • general sources on Minoans, Mycenaeans and later Greeks: http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/aegean/index.shtml
    http://harpy.uccs.edu/greekromelinks.html
  • The Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
• Rome
  • Pompeii: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/pompeiislides.html

Syllabus and Readings

Egypt

Jan. 21: Introduction. Egypt. Chronology. Nagle 21-23; Stokstad 94-95, 127

Jan. 23: Early Dynastic Period and Dyn. III. Nagle 21-28; Stokstad 95-102.

Jan. 26: Old Kingdom: Dyn. IV-VI. Nagle 28-32; Stokstad 102-108.

Jan. 28: Old Kingdom and Pyramids.

Jan. 30: Middle Kingdom. Nagle 32-34; Stokstad 108-13
 

Feb. 2: Hyksos; New Kingdom: Early Dyn. XVIII. Nagle 43-44, 48-52; Stokstad 113-17

Feb. 4: Amarna Period. Nagle 44-47; Stokstad 117-22

Feb. 6: King Tut. Stokstad 122-25
 

Feb. 9: Dyn. XIX-XX. Nagle 52-54; Stokstad 114-17 again, 125

Feb.11: Review.

Feb. 13: HOUR TEST 1: EGYPT
 

Near East

Feb. 16: Near East. Chronology and Protoliterate Period. Nagle 1-8; Stokstad 68-70, 91

Feb. 18: Early Dynastic Sumerian Period. Nagle 9-10, 16-21; Stokstad 70-76

Feb. 20: Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian Periods. Nagle 10-15; Stokstad 76-78
 

Feb. 23: Old Babylonian Period. Nagle 15-16, 17 box, 35-37, 38 box; Stokstad 78-80

Feb. 25: Hittites (same handout as Old Babylonian Period). Nagle 40-43; Stokstad 86-88

Feb. 27: Aegean Bronze Age: Minoan Crete. Nagle 90-93; Stokstad 130-42, 151
 

Mar. 1: Aegean Bronze Age: Crete and Thera (same handout and readings as Feb. 22).

Mar. 3: Assyria. Nagle 63-67; Stokstad 80-83

Mar. 5: Neo-Babylonian Period; Achaemenid Persia. Nagle 67-76; Stokstad 83-85, 88-90
 

Mar. 8: Review.

Mar. 10: HOUR TEST 2: NEAR EAST

Mar. 12:  Walk. There will be a museum assignment; to be explained in class.
 

Mar. 15-19: Spring Break

Greece

Mar. 22: Chronology; Aegean Bronze Age: Mycenaeans. Nagle 88-90, 93-99; Stokstad 142-50, 151

Mar. 24: Aegean Bronze Age: Mycenaeans.

Mar. 26: Geometric-Archaic Periods. Nagle 99-132; Stokstad 154-61, 221
 

Mar. 29: Archaic sculpture, architecture. Stokstad 161-71

Mar. 31: Archaic Period-Early Classical Period. Nagle 133-42, 154-57; Stokstad 172-84

Apr. 2: High Classical Period. Nagle 158-65, 178-200
 

Apr. 5: The Athenian Acropolis. Nagle 165-68; Stokstad 185-93

Apr. 7: Late Fifth Century. Nagle 169-78; Stokstad 193-98

Apr. 9: Late Classical Period. Nagle 201-205; Stokstad 198-210
 

Apr. 12: Hellenistic Period. Nagle 205-22, 242-47, 251-52; Stokstad 210-20 Not Covered

Apr. 14: Review

Apr. 16: HOUR TEST 3: GREECE
 

Etruscans and Rome

Apr. 19: Early Italy and Etruria, and Roman Chronology. Introduction. Nagle 253-57, 262-65; Stokstad 233-36, 287

Apr. 21: Etruscans (handout as above). Nagle 257-61; Stokstad 224-33

Apr. 23: Republican Rome. Nagle 265-74, 295-338; Stokstad 236-41
 

Apr. 26: Augustan Rome. Nagle 338-56; Stokstad 241-45

Apr. 28: Pompeii. Stokstad 260-73

Apr. 30: Imperial Architecture. Nagle 356-77; Stokstad 246-54
 

May 3: Imperial Sculpture. Nagle 377-402; Stokstad 254-60

May 5:Review.

May 7: HOUR TEST 4: ETRUSCANS AND ROME