Art & Architecture of Archaic and Classical Greece: Syllabus
Lectures & Seminars:
Term 1
Week One: Introduction - outline of course, students discuss their project;
Historical periods, cultural markers, geography, Experiencing Art in the Greek World
Week Two: Art and Death in the Iron Age
Week Three: The Orientalising Phenomenon in 8th Century Greece
The Coming of the Archaic Period
Week Four: Seminar: Small Votive Offerings, Lecture: Religion & Art in Archaic Period
Week Five: Temple and Sanctuaries of early Greece
Week Six: No lecture, Reading Week
Week Seven: Sculpture and Statuettes of the Archaic Period
Week Eight: Seminar: Understanding Painted Pottery, Lecture: The Household & the Sanctuary
Week Nine: Pottery – East Greek to Athenian
Week Ten: The Coming of the Classical Period
Term 2:
Week One: No lecture, essay hand backs - a sheet will be put on my office door for you to sign up for a time. Office number - H 235
Week Two: The Athenian Acropolis
Week Three: Classical Sculpture in Greece
Week Four: Seminar: Displaying the Dead: Funerary art in the Classical period
Week Five: The Body and Sexuality in Classical Art
Week Six: No lecture, Reading Week
Week Seven: Classical Painted Pottery
Week Eight: Seminar: Coinage in the Ancient Greek World
Week Nine: Temples in Classical Greece
Week Ten: Art in the Domestic Space
Term 3:Week One: The Coming of Alexander
Week Two: Seminar: Visual Mediums
Week Three: Trip to Ashmolean Museum
Week Four: Revision Lecture