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Classics 17A :  Introduction to Greek Archaeology
Course Catalog No: 21372
remote/online
TuTh
Kim S. Shelton
9:30 - 11:00

This course is intended as an in-depth introduction to the material culture of the Ancient Greeks. We will examine and discuss the architecture, sculpture, painting, and ceramics of the various periods chronologically from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic and will explore how archaeologists and art historians interpret this evidence. One goal of the course is to understand the technical and artistic development and changes in the artifacts and their characteristic styles while gaining deeper insight into the civilization that produced them through an understanding of how the wider social and economic context conditioned and were affected by these accomplishments.

Famous monuments and sites (the Shaft Graves of Mycenae, the Panhellenic Sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi, the Acropolis of Athens) will be examined in detail together with many new discoveries “fresh out of the ground”. This material will be presented through illustrated lectures and readings. Grades will be based on three exams and a term project.

Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies.

Discussion Sections

21373  •  101  •  Tu  1:00 – 2:00  •  Dwinelle 106  • Elizabeth Keyser

21371  •  102  •  W 2:00 – 3:00  •  HearstGym 245  • Susanna Faas-Bush

33370  •  103  •  Tu  12:00 – 1:00  •  Dwinelle 251  • Susanna Faas-Bush

33371  •  104  •  W 1:00 – 2:00  •  VLSB 2062  • Elizabeth Keyser