A group for HCommons members interested in Classical archaeology.
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis course offers a survey of the archaeology of settled landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean world,
including both the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. In particular, the course will focus on
city-country dichotomies in order to study the patterns of development, demography, and land use in
selected case study areas. While…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Roman art: an introduction in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Roman archaeology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe course provides an extensive survey of the archaeology of the Roman world, as well as an introduction to archaeological methods. Students will acquire the analytical skills necessary to interpret material culture and learn how to use archaeological remains to reconstruct various aspects of ancient societies. Emphasis for this class is on the…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited All Italia: City and Country in Ancient Italy in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThis graduate seminar approaches the urban and rural landscapes of peninsular Italy from the Early Iron Age until the Gothic Wars, with the goal being to examine key points of intersection (and departure) between the spheres of ‘town’ and ‘country’. In adopting an holistic approach to these categories that are often juxtaposed, the seminar…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Troy and the Trojan War: the archaeology of an epic in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoTroy has long captured the human imagination. The story of its fall and the tales of both its inhabitants and besiegers have caught the attention of artists and their audiences from antiquity to post-modernity. It seems we are drawn to the struggle that is Troy and the Trojan War, to the paragons of virtue, and the archetypes of other, less noble…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited The archaic Mediterranean in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThis course considers the archaeology and settlement history of the Mediterranean basin from the later ninth century B.C. to the middle of the fifth century B.C. in order to study, in a contextualized way, the interconnectedness of cultures and economies in this region. The interchange and exchange that occurred in the archaic Mediterranean world…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Archaeology of Athens in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe ancient city of Athens provides us with a wealth of archaeological and cultural information about the ancient world. Using Athens and its surroundings as our laboratory, this course will focus on the development and growth of the ancient city-state from the Bronze Age through to the third century A.D. The course will explore the archaeological…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited The archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThis course offers a survey of the archaeology of settled landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean world, including both the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. In particular, the course will focus on city-country dichotomies in order to study the patterns of development, demography, and land use in selected case study areas. While the…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis course provides a survey of sculptural forms in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds from the
time of Alexander the Great to Late Antiquity. Key sculptural media will be considered from
chronological and thematic perspectives. Attention will be given to contextual analysis, social
history, form, technique, commemoration, regionalism, the…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Ancient cities in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis course is an introductory survey of the urban centers of the ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian,
and Mediterranean worlds. In this course students will explore the development of urbanism in
these areas by studying the archaeological remains from the cities of ancient Mesopotamia,
Egypt, Greece, and Rome, from the Neolithic period until the…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Rome’s Augustan “rebirth”: from bricks to marble in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis course provides a detailed examination of the life and administration of the Roman
emperor Augustus (reigned 31 B.C. to A.D.
14), a time of pivotal social and economic
change that forever altered the trajectory of
Roman history. Augustus and his
administration will be examined from a variety
of viewpoints, drawing on a rich dataset…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Becker, J. A. (2021). Defining space, making the city: urbanism in Archaic Rome. In Gleba, Margarita. [Book Chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.76140 in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoBecker, J. A. (2021). Defining space, making the city: urbanism in Archaic Rome. In Gleba, Margarita. [Book Chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.76140
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Elodie Paillard deposited The Structural Evolution of Fifth-Century Athenian Society: Archaeological Evidence and Literary Sources in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe structure of fifth-century Athenian society remains largely unknown, as is the distribution of its citizens into different socio-political categories. Ancient literary sources mostly describe a society divided into élite and poor. However, the model of a society alternately dominated by
the élite and the ‘lower-class’ is to be recon…[Read more] -
Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.
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Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoA short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited CLAS 280A – 01 = ARTH 281A – 01 = ANTH 280U – 01 ART IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis course explores the art, archaeology, and culture of the Greek world from prehistory to the Roman period. The course focuses on architecture, sculpture, painted pottery, and wall painting as its main object classes and situates artistic and stylistic developments within their social, political, and historical context. We will consider issues…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Greek and Roman architecture course syllabus in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis course introduces students to the study of Mediterranean material culture by focusing on the development of ancient Greek and Roman architecture from the Late Bronze Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The survey begins in the Greek world, examining the formal and technical development of Greek architecture. Topics considered will include…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Syllabus for Urbanism in antiquity, spring 2021 in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis course explores key themes related to the archaeology of urbanism and urban centers in the ancient Mediterranean world. The development of urban culture in the Mediterranean world and western Asia will provide an opportunity to discuss cultural interactions and the development of the framework of urban culture in the ancient Near East, while…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoEvidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Scribes as Editors: Tracking Changes in the Linear B Documents in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is the first page only. Full article is available at https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0523 (JSTOR subscription required) or https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/310940 (open access).
Abstract:
A wide variety of edits can be identified in the Linear B administrative documents from Mycenaean Greece. The writers of these documents…[Read more] - Load More
