Schedule
Week 1: Introduction and theory
Class One:
Introduction to the course
Review of the syllabus
Class Two:
The Eastern Mediterranean: Peoples on the move from the Bronze Age to Alexander
Readings:
Malkin, I.” Postcolonial Concepts and Ancient Greek Colonization” Modern Language Quarterly 65:3 (September 2004): 341–64.
Week 2: What is Ancient Colonization?
Class 1: Archaic Greek Colonization
Readings:
Antonaccio, C. “Colonization: Greece on the Move: 900-480 BCE” In Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece: 201-224
Class 2: East and West
Readings:
Burstein, S.M. “The Greek Cities of the Black Sea” In A Companion to the Classical Greek World, 2006:137-152
Lomas, K. “Beyond Magna Graecia: Greeks and Non-Greeks in France, Spain and Italy” In A Companion to the Classical Greek World, 2006:174-196d
Week 3: Delphi
Class 1:
Readings:
Malkin, I. “Delphoi and the founding of social order in archaic Greece” In Mètis, vol. 4, n°1, 1989: 129-153
Class 2:
Readings:
- Doughty, C. The Poetics of Colonization: From text to city in Archaic Greece, Chapter 1-2
(Available as an ebook from Forhring)
Week 4: Founders and Nostoi
Class 1:
Readings:
-Doughty, C. The Poetics of Colonization: From text to city in Archaic Greece, Chapter 3-4
Foundation Decree of Cyrene
Class Two:
Readings:
-Hall, J. “Foundation Stories” In An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume Two. Brill 2008: 383-246.
(Available as an ebook from Forhring)
Week 5: Sicily
Short Response Paper Due
Class One: Magna Graecia and Sicily
Readings:
Funke, P. “Western Greece (Magna Graecia)” In A Companion to the Classical Greek World, 2006: 154-173.
Class Two: Sicily
Readings:
Malkin, I. Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity. Introduction and Chapter 1.
(Available as e-book from Frohring)
Homer, Odyssey, Book 9
Week 6: The Near East
Class One: Reframing the Narrative
Readings: Assyria
Rollinger, R. “The Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond: The Relations between the Worlds of the “Greek” and “Non-Greek Civilizations” In A Companion to the Classical Greek World, 2006: 197-226.
Ragner, K. “Mass Deportations” here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/essentials/governors/massdeportation/
Taylor, J. “The Standard Inscription” here:
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/livesofobjects/standardinscription/index.html
Ashirnasirpal’s “Standard Inscription” here: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004455
Psalm 137 here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137&version=NIV
Class Two: The Persians
Readings:
-Sekunda, N. V. “Achaemenid colonization in Lydia” Revue des Études Anciennes. 87. 1-2. (1986): 7-30.
-Herodotus (selections)
-Video: Colburn, H. “Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter” here
Week 7: The Athenian Empire
Class One:
The class will be divided into groups. Each group will read the assigned article and summarize it for the class in a 10 minute presentation. Each group must provide the historical background for each article (specific terminology, specific places/events) as necessary for comprehension by the class. As a group, you must generate discussion questions based on your case for a final conversation as a class.
Readings:
Everyone:
Thucydides (selections)
1) Moreno, A. ‘The Attic neighbour’: the cleruchy in the Athenian empire” John Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Robert Parker, Interpreting the Athenian Empire. London: Duckworth, 2009: 212-225
2) Brock, R. “Did the Athenian empire promote democracy?” John Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Robert Parker, Interpreting the Athenian Empire. London: Duckworth, 2009: 149-166
3) Raaflaub, K.A. “Learning from the enemy: Athens and Persian ‘instruments of Empire’ John Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Robert Parker, Interpreting the Athenian Empire. London: Duckworth, 2009:
Class Two: Approaches to historical inquiry in Classics
In-class research and writing project
Readings:
-Thucydides, 5.17 (The Melian Dialogue)
-Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
-Bakewell, G. “Seven Against Thebes, City laments and Athenian history” 106-126
Week 8: The Hellenistic World
Class One: Introduction to Alexander
Readings:
Gruen, E. “Greeks and Non-Greeks” in the Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, 2007: 295-314.
**Instead-life od Alexander, selections**??
Class Two:
Readings:
Reger, G. “City foundations and urbanism in the Hellenistic world” In A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World, 2024.
Week 9: Colonization and Contact in Hellenistic Urbanism
Class One: The Seleucids
Readings:
Austin, A. “The Seleucids and Asia” in A Companion to the Hellenistic World. 2005
(In Forhring Library)
Class Two: Bactria
Readings:
Mairs, R. “Greek Identity and the Settler Community in Hellenistic Bactria and Arachosia”
Bernard, P. “Ai-Khanoum: An Ancient Greek City in Central Asia.” In Scientific America, 1982, 148-159.
Week 10: Roman Colonies, Greek Precedents
Annotated Bibliography Due
Class 1: Greek Models and Roman Colonization Myth
Readings:
-Vergil, Aeneid, Books 3-6
-Horsfall, N. “Aeneas the Colonist”
Class 2:
-Vergil, Aeneid, Books 7-8
-Fletch, KFB. “Setting the Colonization Narrative in Motion” in Finding Italy: Travel, Nation and Colonization in Vergil's 'Aeneid'. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014: 81-140
(Available as e-book in Frohring Library)
Week 11
Research presentations and discussion
Week 12
Research presentations and discussion
Week 13
Research presentations and discussion
Week 14:
Open office hours for workshopping and discussion