Art & Architecture in Asia Minor - Syllabus
Syllabus 2022-23 (tbc)
All sessions taught by Zahra Newby, unless otherwise noted.
Term 1
Wk 1 Lecture: Introduction, terms and techniques; A Brief History of Ancient Art
Wk 2 Lecture: Archaic and Classical Temples
Wk 3 Lecture: Hellenistic Temples, Seminar: Dedications and Votives
Wk 4 Lecture: The Hecatomnids and architectural patronage (Naomi Carless Unwin)
Wk 5 Lecture: Lycia and its tombs
Wk 6 Seminar on site at the British Museum: The Nereid Monument and the Mausoleum
Wk 7 Lecture: Cities and civic life (Matthew Evans)
Wk 8 Lecture: Festivals in the Hellenistic Age (Naomi Carless Unwin)
Wk 9 Lecture: The Rise of Pergamum
Wk 10 Student presentations
Term 2 (tbc)
Wk 1 Lecture: The Coming of Rome and The urban landscape
Wk 2 Lecture: Cities and the Emperor: The imperial cult and beyond
Wk 3 Lecture: Aphrodisias; Seminar: The Sebasteion of Aphrodisias (Naomi Carless Unwin)
Wk 4 Lecture: Portraiture and Elite self-representation
Wk 5 Lecture: The monumentality of Inscriptions (Naomi Carless Unwin); Seminar: Euergetism: Celsus and Plancia Magna
Wk 6 reading week: no lecture
Wk 7 Lecture: Baths, the Gymnasium and Entertainment;
Wk 8 Lecture and Seminar: Religion, festivals and Civic identities
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).
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