GREECE & ROME
AH  207/CL223

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE


 
DATE ASSIGNMENTS TAG FILE
M 4/23 INTRODUCTION GREEK BRONZE AGE BACKGROUND RK207-1
TU 4/24

EARLY GREEK ART

Spivey, skim 5-68 over the
Bronze-Age background
Spivey 69-168
*Onians 8-21
*Stewart 63-70
The Peplos Kore--in Technicolor

RK207-2
W 4/25

GREEK PAINTING,
BLACK AND RED FIGURE

*Osborne, “Gay Abandon,” 133-155

RK 207-3
TH 4/26

NO CLASS-- PREPARE CLASS REPORTS, READING RESPONSES

 
F 4/27

GREEK EARLY
CLASSICAL ART:
Olympia and the Olympic Games

Reading Response (except for those doing reports) on Stewart
*Spivey, 171-224
*Stewart, 70-75; 86-97

Reports on the Olympia and the Olympics:
Site of Olympia
Temple of Zeus Sculpture
Olympic events in art—Sculpture
Olympic events in art—vase painting

Film Clip from  Olympia by Leni Riefenstaler

RK207-4
M 4/30

GREEK CLASSICAL ART ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS

Reading Response (except for those doing reports) Meaning of the Parthenon frieze, who's correct?
Pericles Oration
Plutarch
Spivey 224-274
Connelly, “Parthenon and Parthenoi” 53-80
Harrison , “The Web of History” 198-213
Stewart, 75-85

Reports on the Acropolis:
-Parthenon East Pediment
Birth of Athena
-Athena Parthenos Statue
-Erechtheon
-Elgin Marbles: Should they be returned to Greece ?

  The Elgin Marbles

RK207-5
RK207-6
TU 5/1

LATE CLASSICAL ART

Reading response except for those giving reports, Pollitt or Stewart

Spivey, 277-355
*Wincklemann
*Pollitt, “Royal Iconography”
*Stewart, 97-107

Reports:
-Vergina Tomb--Structure & Painting -Vergina Tomb--Weapons
-Vergina Tomb--Other finds
-Vergina “Queen's Tomb”
-Alexander Mosaic

RK207-7
W 5/2

HELLENISTIC ART

Spivey, 355-378

Web site:  Alexander the
Great's Homepage

RK207-8
TH 5/3

ROMAN REPUBLIC

SHORT PAPER DUE

Kleiner, 1-15; 47-59

RK207-9

F 5/4

ART UNDER AUGUSTUS

Reading response Augustus' use of art as propaganda, what was the message?

Kleiner, 61-101
*Zanker, “Power of Images in the Age of Augustus”, 101- 165
*Suetonius, Life of Augustus 90-107
*Augustus' Will, 9-19

RK207-10
M 5/7
 
 

FLAVIANS, GLADIATORS

Kleiner, 103-137
* Junkelmann, “Familia Gladiatoria,” 31-74
* Magerius mosaic inscription


RK207-11
TU 5/8
Class Meets
9:00-10:30 &
1:30-2:30

POMPEII

Film on Pompeii

Kleiner, 17-45; 139-151.

Web Site of Pompeii

RK207-11
W 5/9

TRAJAN

Reading response: The Column of Trajan

Kleiner, 153-169
* Brilliant, “The Column of Trajan” 90-108, 115-116

RK207-12
TH 5/10

HADRIAN AND THE ANTONINES

Kleiner, 171-201

*MacDonald, “The Pantheon,” 11-43, 76-90

RK207-13
F 5/11

PROJECTS DUE NO CLASS

 
M 5/14

SEVERANS—ROMAN BATHS

Reading response, Yegul

Kleiner, 231-245
* Yegul, Roman Baths, 30-47


 
TU 5/15 LATE ROMAN ART CHRISTIAN BEGININGS

Kleiner, 263-306
* Kitzinger, “Ancient Art in Crisis,” 7-21

RK207-14
W 5/16 FINAL EXAM--ORAL EXAMS  

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