Week 1
Jan 20 Course and materialintroduction.
Jan 22 The origins of viticulture
Explore http://www.penn.museum/sites/wine/wineneolithic.html
Read the interview to P. McGovern at https://archive.is/20130203000209/http://www.sommelierjournal.com/articles/article.aspx?year=2011&month=04&articlenum=36
Optional P. Mc Govern, Sailing the Wine Dark Mediterranean, from Uncorking the Past, University of California University Press, 2009, 159-197 (read with a map of the Mediterranean under sight)
Week 2
Jan 27 Wine and Wine Drinking in Egypt and the Middle East
Jan 29 Wine and Wine Drinking in the Aegean world and in Early Greece.
Z. Papakostantinou, "Wine and Wine Drinking in the Homeric World", L'Antiquité Classique, 78, 2009, 1-24, Jstor
Week 3
Feb 3 The Oriental reclining banquet in Assyria
Browse these two websites
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=366859&partId=1
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/symp/hd_symp.htm
Feb 5 The introduction of the reclining banquet in Greece (symposium)
Week 4
Feb 10 The Symposium and Greek Society
Lissarague, Ch. 1-2
Feb 12 Ch Murray, Oswyn. "Violence at the Symposion." In The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Riess Werner and Fagan Garrett G., 195-206. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Week 5
Feb 17 Sympotic Space and Equipment
Lissarague, ch. 2
Feb 19 G. Hedreen, "Involved Spectatorship in Archaic Greek Art" available from Academia (see PDF posted on the course page)
Week 6
Feb 24 The symposium and love
Lissarague, ch. 3
Feb 16 Neill, J, "Others within the Other: An Intimate Look into Hetairai and Maenads" available from Academia (see PDF posted on the course page)
Week 7
Mar 2 Review for the midterm
Mar 4 Midterm exam
Week 8
SPRING BREAK
Week 9
Mar 16 Music and Entertainment
Lissarague ch. 4-7
Mar 18 Selected passages from Greek elegiac and lyric poems.
Week 10
Mar 23 Wine and Wine Drinking as a religious experience
Euripides’ Bacchae
Mar 25 Wine and Philosophy
Plato’s Symposium (selected passages) Xenophon’s Symposium (selected passage)
Week 11
Mar 30 Wine among the Etruscans
F. Di Savino, The Original Chianti, from Chianti Classico: The Search for Tuscany Noblest Wine, California University Press 2013, 1-20 JStor (please focus on the Etruscan period but read the entire chapter to familiarize with the history of one of the most famous Italian wines)
Apr 1 Pieraccini, “The Wonders of Wine in Etruria,” in The Archaeology of Sanctuaries and Ritual in Etruria, ed by N.T. de Grummond and I. Edlund-Berry (JRA Suppl. 81) JRA 2011 (Frohring Library)
Week 12
Apr 6 Wine in early Rome
Apr 8 Wine in the Roman Empire
Week 13
Apr 13 NO CLASS EASTER MONDAY
Apr 15 Russell, Brigette Ford. "Wine, Women, and the Polis: Gender and the Formation of the City-State in Archaic Rome." Greece & Rome 50, no. 1 (2003): 77-84. (Jstor)
Week 14
Apr 21 Murray, Oswyn. "Symposium and Genre in the Poetry of Horace." The Journal of Roman Studies 75 (1985): 39-50
Apr 23 Mc Govern, Beginning of Viniculture in France, PNAS 110, 2013, 10147-10152 (Jstor)
Week 15
Apr 27 Wine in other cultures
Apr 29 Wrap up session and final review