This course will provide an introduction to some of the more important aspects of the archaeology of the Greek and Roman World, including the archaeology of the ancient city and its buildings, religious monuments and sanctuaries, art, agriculture and rural life, and the Roman army. METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 weekly 1 hour lectures, 2 x 1 hour seminars/tutorials. METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: For Study Abroad and Erasmus students, coursework (100%).

By the end of course the student should have acquired:

• A knowledge of the chronology and terminology developed for the art, architecture and archaeology of the Greek and Roman world, for the period spanning 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D.
• An understanding of how our literary evidence relates to material evidence, and consequently how archaeology relates to history;
• The skills required to examine and synthesise the material evidence and interpret Greek and Roman life, culture, society and politics.

 TEACHING           10 weekly one-hour lectures; 2 one-hour seminars (attendance at lectures and seminars is not optional).

 ASSESSMENT      One examination of 1hr (50%)

                                 One assessed essay of no more than 1500 words (50%)

One examination of 1hr (50%)

One assessed essay of no more than 1500 words (50%)

The 1 hour examination at the end of the module will comprise about 5 questions, of which students are required to answer 1.

Lecture 1.      Introduction

Lecture 2.       A New Beginning: Archaic Greece

Lecture 3.      A Classical City State: Athens

Seminar 1: Greek Sanctuaries

Lecture 4.      Beyond the Acropolis: Living and Working in Classical Greece

Lecture 5.      Alexander’s Legacy: The Hellenistic World

Lecture 6.       Roman Expansion: Conquest and Empire

Seminar 2. Roman Identities

Lecture 7.      Roman Cities: Commerce and Control

Lecture 8.      Roman Art: Style and Meaning

Lecture 9.      Temples, Cults and Roman Death

Lecture 10.    End of the Roman Empire: Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity

It is a condition of registration on this module that students attend ALL lectures, seminars, practical classes, field-trips etc scheduled for them. Non-attendance without good cause will be dealt with in accordance with the Archaeology Board of Studies' ‘Student Cases' procedure, and may then lead to disciplinary measures, including deregistration from the module and exclusion from the programme of study.

The literature for the archaeology of Antiquity is comprehensively vast and a wide range of books on many topics is available to students. You should try to read widely for the course. This does not mean that you should try to read every piece of reading for individual lectures – the reading given for each lecture is just a guide to which books are relevant to which topics. You should ensure, however, that you have read at least one of the recommended textbooks and something for each of the two seminars. More ‘in depth’ reading is needed for essays and the exam (an * indicates that a book is particularly worth reading or consulting).

The bibliography for Archaeology of the Greek and Roman World is available as a separate document on Learning Central (under Module Documents).

General Texts  - these are works that provide you with the background information you will need for the course (if you want to know what ‘epigraphy’ means, for example)

* Alcock, S.E. and Osborne, R. (eds.) 2007. (second edition 2012) Classical Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers [This book covers the themes of the whole module. We recommend that you buy this book]

*Bispham, E., Harrison, T. and Sparkes, B.A. (eds.) 2006. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.   – the best one-volume handbook.

*Boardman, J. (ed.) 1993. The Oxford History of Classical Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [This book covers the whole of the module]

*Boardman, J., Griffin, J. and Murray, O. (eds.) 1988. The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds) 1996. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Shipley, G., Vanderspoel, J., Mattingly, D. and Foxhall, L. (eds) 2006. The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 General Works on Greek History, Art and Archaeology

*Biers, W.R. 1996. The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction (2^nd edition). Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.

Bintliff, J. 2012. The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [on order]

Boardman, J. 1999. The Greeks overseas. (3^rd edition)London: Thames and Hudson.

Boys-Stones, G., Graziosi, B. and Vasunia, Ph. (eds) 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [mainly literary, but contains some useful articles on epigraphy and archaeology]

Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R. & Villard, F. (eds) 1972. Classical Greek  Art, 480-330 BC.  London: Thames and Hudson

Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R. & Villard, F. 1971. (eds) Archaic Greek Art, 620-480 BC. London: Thames and Hudson

Lawrence, A.W. and Tomlinson, R.A. 1996. Greek Architecture (5^th edition). New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

*Mee, C. and Spawforth, A. 2001. Oxford Archaeological Guide: Greece. Oxford: OUP.

Mee, C. 2011. Greek Archaeology: A Thematic Approach. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [on order]

*Osborne, R. 1998. Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Neer, R. 2012. Art and Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE. London: Thames and Hudson.

Pedley, J.G. 1997. Greek Art and Archaeology Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Pollitt, J.J. 1990. The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Raaflaub, K. and Van Wees, H. (eds) 2009. A Companion to Archaic Greece (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Oxford and Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Robertson, M. 1975. A History of Greek Art (2 volumes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stansbury-O’Donnell, M.D 2011. Looking at Greek Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stewart, A. 2008. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

*Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Woodford, S. 1986. An Introduction to Greek Art. London: Duckworth.

General Works on Roman History, Art and Archaeology

*Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S. 1998 Religions of Rome. Vol. 1, A history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S. 1998 Religions of Rome. Vol. 2, A sourcebook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Boardman, J., Griffin, J. and Murray, O. (eds.) 2001. The Oxford History of the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Claridge, A. 1998. Rome. (Oxford Archaeological Guides). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Elsner, J. 1998. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Henig, M. (ed) 1983. A Handbook of Roman art. Oxford: Phaidon.

Millar, F. 1981. The Roman Empire and its Neighbours (2^nd edition). London: Duckworth.

*Potter, D and Mattingly, D. (eds) 1999. Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

*Ramage, N. & Ramage, A. Roman Art (2^nd edition). Laurence King: London.

*Sear, F. 1992. Roman Architecture. New York: Cornell University Press.

*Wacher, J. (ed) 1987. The Roman World. 2 vols. London: Routledge.

*Wheeler, M. 1978. Roman Art and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson.

General Bibliography

Alcock, S. and Osborne, R.  (eds.) 1994. Placing the Gods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Andronikos, M. 1984. Vergina: The Royal Tombs and the Ancient City. Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon.

Antonaccio, C. 1995.  An archaeology of ancestors: tomb cult and hero cult in early Greece. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield

ASCSA 1976.  The Athenian Agora: A Guide to the Excavations. American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Ault, B.A., and Nevett, L.  2005. Ancient Greek Houses and Households. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bagnall, R. 2006. Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. London: Ashgate.

Barton, I.M. (ed) 1989. Roman Public Buildings. Exeter: University of Exeter.

*Beard, M. 2002. The Parthenon. London: Profile.

*Beard, M. 2008. Pompeii : the life of a Roman town. London: Profile.

*Beard, M. and Henderson, J.  2001. Classical Art: From Greece to Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S. 1998. Religions of Rome. 2 Vols. Cambridge University Press.

Bishop, M.C. and Coulston, C.N. 2005. Roman Military Equipment. Oxford: Oxbow..

Boardman, J. 1974. Athenian Black Figure Vases. London: Thames & Hudson.

Boardman, J. 1975. Athenian Red-Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. London: Thames & Hudson.

Boardman, J. 1978. Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period. London: Thames & Hudson.

Boardman, J. 1989. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period. London: Thames & Hudson.

Boardman, J. 1998. Early Greek Vase Painting: 11th–6th Centuries BC. London: Thames & Hudson.

Boardman, J. 2001. The history of Greek vases. London: Thames and Hudson

Burn, L. 2006. Hellenistic Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus. London: British Museum.

Cameron, A. 1993. The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, AD 395-600. London: Routledge.

*Camp, J. 1986.  The Athenian Agora.  London: Thames & Hudson.

*Camp, J.M. 2002. The archaeology of Athens. New Haven: Yale University Press

Chamoux, E. 2003. Hellenistic Civilization. Oxford: Blackwell

Charlton, N., and Nichols, S. The archaeology of city-states. Washington.

Cook, R.M. 1997. Greek Painted Pottery. (3^rd edition) London: Methuen.

Davidson, J. 1997.  Courtesans and Fishcakes. London: HarperCollins.

*De Polignac, F. 1995. Cults, territory, and the origins of the Greek city-state. Chicago: Chicago University Press

*Emerson, M. 2007. Greek Sanctuaries. An Introduction. London:Bristol Classical Press.

Fantham, E. et al. 1994. Women in the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fisher, N., & van Wees, H. (eds) 1997. Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence. London: Duckworth

*Gale, N. (ed) 1991. Bronze Age trade in the Mediterranean. Oxford: BAR Int. Series 90

Ginouvès, R., et al. 1994. Macedonia from Philip II to the Roman Conquest. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Gitin, S., Mazar, A., and Stern, E. 1998. Mediterranean peoples in transition. Jerusalem: Israel  Exploration Society

Grant, M. 1970. The Roman Forum. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Gunter, A.C. 2009. Greek Art and the Orientby Anne C. Gunter, 2009. New York and      Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Hägg, R. (ed) 1983. The Greek renaissance of the eighth century BC: tradition and innovatio : proceedings of the Second International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 1-5 June 1981 Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens

*Hägg, R. (ed) 1996. The role of religion in the early Greek polis. Proceedings of the third international seminar on ancient Greek cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 16-18 October 1992 Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens

Hansen, M. H. (ed) 1993. The ancient Greek city-state. Symposium on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. July 1-4, 1992 Copenhagen: Munksgaard

Hansen, M.H. (ed) 1997. The polis as an urban centre and as a political community. Symposium August 29-31 1997. Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre Volume 4. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

*Hope, V. 2008. Roman Death. London: Continuum.

*Jameson, M.H 1990a, ‘Domestic space in the Greek city-state’, in S. Kent (ed.), Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space, (Cambridge 1990) 92–113. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jameson, M.H 1990b, ‘Private space and the Greek city’, in O. Murray & S. Price (eds.), The Greek City from Homer to Alexander,171–195. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Johnson, A. 1983. Roman forts of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in Britain and the German provinces. London: A&C Black.

Knigge, U. 1991.  The Athenian Kerameikos.  Athens: Krene.

Kraay, C.M. 1976. Greek coins. London: Methuen

Krautheimer, R. 1979. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture (3^rd edition). Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Kurtz, D. and Sparkes, B. (eds) 1982. The eye of Greece: studies in the art of Athens Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Langdon, S. 2008. Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 B.C.E by Susan Langdon, 2008.  New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Le Bohec, Yann 1994. The Imperial Roman Army. London: Batsford.

Morris, I. 1987. Burial and ancient society: the rise of the Greek city-state Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Morris. I. 1992. Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morris, I. (ed). 1994. Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morris, I. 2003. Mediterraneanization. Mediterranean Historical Review 18. 2, 30–55.

Morris, S.P. 1992. Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

*Morgan, C., 1996. Athletes and oracles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Murray, O. and Tecusan, M. (eds.) 1995. In Vino Veritas. London: British School at Rome.

Murray, O. 1994. Sympotica. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

*Myers, J. W., Myers, E.E. & Cadogan, G. 1992. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete London: Thames and Hudson

Nevett, L. 1995a. The organisation of space in Classical and Hellenistic houses from mainland Greece and the western colonies. In Spencer 1995, 89-108.

Nevett, L. 1995b Gender relations in the Classical Greek household: the archaeological evidence. Annual of the British School at Athens 90: 363-81.

*Nevett, L. 1999. House and society in the ancient Greek world Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Osborne, R. 1987. Classical landscape with figures: the ancient Greek city and its countryside London: Philips

*Osborne, R. 2009.  Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC.(2^nd edition)London: Routledge.

*Pedley, J.G. 2005. Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pollitt, J.J. 1972. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pollitt, J.J. 1986. Art in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parkins, H., and Smith, C.J. (eds) Trade, traders and the ancient city London: Routledge: 75-101

*Rackham, O., and A. T. Grove, 2001. The nature of Mediterranean Europe: an ecological history.

*Reece, R. 1999. The later Roman Empire. Stroud: Tempus.

Rich, J. (ed) 1992. The city in late antiquity. London: Routledge.

Rich, J., and Wallace-Hadrill, A. (eds) 1991. City and country in the ancient world. London: Routledge

Ridgway, D. 1991. The first western Greeks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Robertson, M. 1981. A Shorter History of Greek Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Robinson, D. M. The Villa of Good Fortune at Olynthos. American Journal of Archaeology 38: 501 – 510. (Available online through the library)

Smith, R.R.R. 1991. Hellenistic Sculpture London: Thames and Hudson

Snodgrass, A.M. 1971. The Dark Age of Greece. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

*Snodgrass, A.M. 1980. Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

*Spawforth, T. 2006. The Complete Greek Temples. London: Thames & Hudson.

Spencer, N.(ed) 1995. Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the ‘Great Divide’. London: Routledge.

Spivey, N. 1997. Greek Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Stambaugh, J. 1989. The Ancient Roman City. London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stewart, A. 2008. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Strong, D. 1995. Roman art (2^nd edition). London: Yale University Press.

Thompson, H. A. and Wycherley, R. 1972.  The Agora of Athens. ASCSA.

*Thorpe, M. 1995. Roman Architecture. London: Bristol Classical Press

*Tomlinson, R.A. 1976. Greek Sanctuaries. London: Elek.

Toynbee, J.M.C. 1971. Death and Burial in the Roman World. London: Thames & Hudson.

*Tsetskhladze, G. and de Angelis, F. (eds) 1994. The archaeology of Greek colonisation Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology

Wallace-Hadrill, A. 1994. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Walter-Karydi, E.  1998. The Greek House: The rise of noble houses in late Classical times. Athens: The Archaeological Society at Athens.

*Ward-Perkins, J.B. 1981. Roman Imperial Architecture. London: Penguin.

*Webster, G. 1985. The Roman Imperial Army. (3^rd edition) London: Black.

*Wells, B. (ed) 1992. Agriculture in Ancient Greece. Athens: Swedish Institute at Athens.

Wertime, T., and Muhly, J. (eds) The coming of the age of iron. New Haven: Yale University Press

Westgate, R., Fisher, N. and Whitley, J. (eds) 2007. Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond. London: British School at Athens.

Whitley, J. 1991a. Style and Society in Dark Age Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Whitley, J. 1991b. Social diversity in Dark Age Greece. Annual of the British School at Athens 86: 341-65.

Yunis, H. (ed) 2003. Written texts and the rise of literate culture in ancient Greece Cambridge: Cambridge University Press