Sample Syllabus (2024-25)

Term 1

Wk 1 Lecture: Introduction, terms and techniques; Historical Overview
Wk 2 Lecture: Archaic and Classical Temples
Wk 3 Lecture (1 hour): Hellenistic Temples, Seminar (1 hour): Dedications and Votives
Wk 4 Lecture: Lycia and its tombs
Wk 5 Lecture: The Hecatomnids and architectural patronage
Wk 6 Museum trip to the British Museum: Lycia, The Nereid Monument and the Mausoleum
Wk 7 Lecture: Cities and civic life
Wk 8 Lecture: Festivals in the Hellenistic Age
Wk 9 Lecture: The Rise of Pergamum
Wk 10 Student presentations

Term 2

Wk 1 Lecture: The Coming of Rome and The urban landscape
Wk 2 Lecture: Euergetism 1: Zoilos and Aphrodisias; Portraiture and Elite self-representation
Wk 3 Lecture: Cities and the Emperor
Wk 4 Lecture (1 hour): Myth and local identity; Seminar (1 hour): The Sebasteion of Aphrodisias
Wk 5 Lecture: Festivals, Spectacles and Entertainment
Wk 6 reading week: no lecture
Wk 7 Lecture 1 Hour): Civic Coinage; Seminar (1 hour): Euergetism II: Celsus and Plancia Magna
Wk 8 Lecture: Baths, Gymnasia and Nymphaea
Wk 9 Lecture: Death and Commemoration
Wk 10 Lecture: Asia Minor in Late Antiquity

Term 3

Wk 1&2: Revision
Wk 3 Student presentations (by those taking 15 CAT Art and Architecture of Roman Asia Minor).

Summer vacation reading listLink opens in a new window - to be completed before the start of Term 1