SUPPLEMENTARY SYLLABUS for Graduate Students, ARH 6798 (Greek Art)
Spring 2010
Requirements: 1) attendance and participation at lectures, completion of readings as
listed on main syllabus; 2) 18-20 pg research paper (plus illustrations and bibliography);
3) supplemental readings below and graduate tutorial meetings (in Prof. Bundrick’s
office, days/times TBA); 4) exams are optional; 5) assistance as a discussion group
moderator during the Elgin Marbles debate on March 30th [written assignment not
required]
**Items marked with an asterisk will be available on Blackboard; the rest will be
provided as xeroxes
week of Feb 9th: Greece Between East & West
*J. Hurwit, “Reading the Chigi Vase,” Hesperia 71 (2002): 1-22.
*G. Markoe, “The Emergence of Orientalizing in Greek Art: Some Observations on the
Interchange Between Greeks and Phoenicians in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries
B.C.,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 301 (Feb 1996)
47-67.
T. Rasmussen, “Corinth and the Orientalizing phenomenon,” in T. Rasmussen and N.
Spivey, eds., Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991) 57-78.
J. Whitley, “The Aegean, the Levant, and the West: The Orientalising Phenomenon,”
Ch. 6 in J. Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2001)
102-33.
week of Feb 23rd: Let’s Be Potheads!
J. Boardman, “The sixth-century potters and painters of Athens and their public,” from
T. Rasmussen and N. Spivey, Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge 1991) 79-102.
F. Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual
(Princeton 1990), chs. 1 (The Greek Experience of Wine) and 2 (The Space of
the Krater)
J.H. Oakley, "State of the Discipline: Greek Vase Painting." American Journal of
Archaeology 113 (2009) 599-627.
*R. Osborne, “Whose image and superscription is this?” Arion 1.2 (1991) 255-75.
N.W. Slater, "The Vase as Ventriloquist: Kalos-Inscriptions and the Culture of
Fame." From E. A. MacKay, ed., Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its
Influence on the Greek and Roman World (Leiden, 1999)143-61.
week of March 23rd: Asserting Athenian Identity after the Persian Wars
D. Castriota, “Femininizing the Barbarian and Barbarizing the Feminine: Amazons,
Trojans, and Persians in the Stoa Poikile,” from J. Barringer and J. Hurwit, eds.,
Periklean Athens and its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives (Univ. of Texas
Press, 2005) 73–87.
E. Hall, “Asia Unmanned: Images of Victory in Classical Athens,” from J. Rich and
G. Shipley, eds., War and Society in the Ancient Greek World (Routledge, 1993)
108–33.
M. C. Miller, “Persians: The Oriental Other,” Source: Notes in the History
of Art 15, 1 (1995) 39-44
*H.A. Shapiro, “Theseus in Kimonian Athens: The Iconography of Empire,”
Mediterranean Historical Review 7 (June 1992) 29-49.
*A. Stewart, “Imag(in)ing the Other: Amazons and Ethnicity in Fifth-Century Athens,”
Poetics Today 16, 4 (winter 1995) 571-597.
week of April 6th: The Art of Death
*R. Leader, “In Death Not Divided: Gender, Family, and State on Classical
Athenian Grave Stelae,” American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997)
683-99.
J. Oakley, “Children in Athenian Funerary Art During the Peloponnesian War,”
from O. Palagia, ed., Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War (Cambridge
2009): 207–35.
*R. Osborne, “Law, the Democratic Citizen, and the Representation of Women in
Classical Athens,” Past and Present 155 (May 1997) 3-33.
K. Stears, “Dead Women’s Society: Constructing female gender in Classical
Athenian funerary sculpture,” from N. Spencer, ed., Time, Tradition, and
Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the ‘Great Divide’ (Routledge, 1995)
109–31.