Lecture in Ancient History I [2900-HAMC-K1-ANHIS] Semestr zimowy 2023/24
Wykład, grupa nr 1

General works:

BARRINGER, J.M., The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2014).

CARTLEDGE, P., The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others (Oxford–New York 1993).

DOVER, K. J., Greek Popular Morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle (Indianapolis–Cambridge 1994 [1974]).

DOVER, K. J., Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA 1989 [1978]).

EHRENBERG, V., From Solon to Socrates. Greek History and Civilization during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (London 1968).

GARLAND, R., The Greek Way of Death (Ithaca, NY 2001 [1985]).

HALL, J. M., Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 1997).

HANSEN, M. H. & NIELSEN, T. H., (eds) An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004).

HANSEN, M. H., Polis. An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State (Oxford 2006).

HURWIT, J. M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100–480 B.C. (Ithaca–London 1985).

MORRIS, I. & POWELL, B.B., The Greeks. History, Culture, and Society (Upper Saddle River, NY 2010).

MURRAY, O. & PRICE, S. (eds), The Greek City. From Homer to Alexander (Oxford 1990).

PARKER, R., Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford 2005).

POLLITT, J. J., Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Cambridge 1999 [1974]).

WHITLEY, J., The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2001).

Part by dr hab. prof. ucz. Marek Węcowski

1. Introductory Lecture:

(a) Methods and organising ideas; the chronological scope: Early Iron Age through Alexander the Great; competing or complementary approaches: uniformity vs. particularisms;

(b) Time and space in a human experience; The geographical setting and the geographical mobility of the Greeks;

2. Greece coming of age: Mycenaean collapse, Early Iron Age till the Geometric times – the origins of the Polis and the foundations of the social mobility of the Greeks;

3. The Euboeans: trade and prospection of the East and West; the Phoenician connection; the alphabet, the aristocratic banquet in a comparative perspective;

4. The Great Colonization and the New World(s) – towards a “small Greek World”: A Greece of networks, local histories and a global approach;

5. The cultural breakthrough: Homer, the Pan-Hellenic Olympus; the polis religion, the Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries; Greek athletics, the aristocratic culture and its implications; The Orientalising Period;

6. The archaic Greek city or archaic Greek cities: citizenship, aristocracy, social order and the tyranny – general trends, regional patterns, local variations;

7. The Spartan Revolution and the Uniqueness of Sparta;

8. Eunomia, isonomia, democracy, and democracies – Before the Persian Wars;

9. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fifth Century;

10. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fourth Century;

11. The Greeks under Arms: Greeks vs. Greeks and Greeks vs. Persians; The period of innovations; Heritage of the Persian Wars;

12. The New Art of War, Diplomacy, and the Pan-Hellenism;

13. Macedon, Philip II, and the Greeks;

14. Towards a new world: the new political order in the Aegean; the New Cultural Paradigm;

• It is advisable but by no means obligatory that students get access to the www.academia.edu website in order to gain entry to numerous publications in the field available online (including those underlined below).

Further Reading:

1. Introductory Lecture: I. MALKIN, ‘Migration and colonization. Turbulence, Continuity, and the Practice of Mediterranean Space (11th-5th centuries BCE), [in:] M. Dabag et al. (eds), New Horizons. Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century (Paderborn 2016), 285-307; R. OSBORNE, Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC (London–New York 2009); C. G. THOMAS, ‘The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 22-40.

2. Greece coming of age: J. N. COLDSTREAM, Geometric Greece (London 2003 [1979]); O. DICKINSON, The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC (London–New York 2006); I. LEMOS, The Protogeometric Aegean: The Archaeology of the Late Eleventh and Tenth Centuries BC (Oxford 2002); A. MAZARAKIS AINIAN, From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples in Early Iron Age Greece (1100–700 B.C.), (Jonsered 1997); I. MORRIS, Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (Cambridge 1987); A. M. SNODGRASS, The Dark Age of Greece (Edinburgh 1971); A. M. SNODGRASS, Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece (Ithaca, NY 2006).

3. The Euboeans: R. JANKO, ‘From Gabii to Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 58.1 (2015), 1–32; R. LANE FOX, Travelling Heroes. In the Epic Age of Homer (New York 2010 [2008]); O. MURRAY, Early Greece (London 1993 [1978]); M. WECOWSKI, The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford 2014).

4. The Great Colonization and the New World(s): M. AUBET, The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade (Cambridge1993); J. BOARDMAN, The Greeks Overseas. Their early colonies and trade (London 1999 [1964]); A. J. DOMÍNGUEZ, ‘The origins of Greek colonization and the Greek polis: some observations’, AWE 10 (2011), 195-207; I. MALKIN, A Small Greek World. Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford 2011); R. OSBORNE, ‘Early Greek colonization? The nature of Greek settlement in the West’, [in:] N. Fisher & H. Van Wees (eds), Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (London–Swansea–Oakville, CT 1998), 251–269; D. Ridgway, The first Western Greeks (Cambridge 1992).

5. The cultural breakthrough: W. BURKERT, Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA 1985); W. BURKERT, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Cambridge, MA–London 1992); C. MORGAN, Athletes and Oracles. The transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century BC (Cambridge 1990); S. MORRIS, Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, NJ 1992); N. PURCELL, ‘Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions’, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 10 (2006), 21-30; M. L. WEST, The east face of Helicon: West Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth (Oxford–New York 1997).

6. The archaic Greek City or archaic Greek cities: J. HALL, A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE (Padstow 2007); R. OSBORNE, Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC (London–New York 2009); K. RAAFLAUB, & H. VAN WEES (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009); H. SHAPIRO, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge 2007); A. SNODGRASS, Archaic Greece. The Age of Experiment (Berkeley–Los Angeles 1980).

7. The Spartan Revolution and the uniqueness of Sparta: S. HODKINSON, ‘The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period’, [in:] L. G. Mitchell & P. J. Rhodes (eds), The development of the polis in archaic Greece. (London–New York 1997), 83-102; M. NAFISSI, ‘Sparta’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 117-137.

8. Eunomia, isonomia, democracy, and democracies: E. ROBINSON, The First Democracies. Early Popular Government outside Athens, (Stuttgart 1997); J. OBER, ‘“I Besieged That Man”: Democracy’s Revolutionary Start’, [in:] K. Raaflaub et al. (eds), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (Berkeley–Los Angeles–London 2007), 83-104.

9. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fifth Century: K. J. DAVIES, Democracy and Classical Greece (Cambridge, MA 1993 [1978]); J. MA, N. PAPAZARKADAS, R. PARKER (eds), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (London 2009); K. RAAFLAUB & D. BOEDEKER (eds), Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in fifth-century Athens (Cambridge, MA 1998); Rhodes, P.J. (ed.), Athenian Democracy (Oxford 2004).

10. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fourth Century: B. EDER (ed.), Die athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Vollendung oder Verfall einer Verfassungsform? (Stuttgart 1995); M.H. HANSEN, The Athenian Democracy in the age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology (Oxford–Cambridge, MA 1991); J. OBER, Mass and Elite in democratic Athens. Rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people (Princeton, 1989).

11. The Greeks under Arms and the legacy of the Persian Empire: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VI: Persia, Grece, and the Western Mediterranean, c. 525–479 B.C. (Cambridge2 1990); N. SEKUNDA & A. Hook, Greek Hoplite, 480–323 BC. Weapons, Armour, Tactics (Osprey Military, 2000); H. SINGOR, ‘War and International Relations”, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 585-603.

P. BRIANT, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Winona Lake 2002 [1996]); R. ROLLINGER, ‘Near Eastern Perspectives on the Greeks’, [in:], G. Boys-Stones et al. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford 2009), 32-47; J. WIESHÖFER, ‘Greek and Persians’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 162-185.

12. The New Art of War, Diplomacy, and the Pan-Hellenism: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. IV: The Fourth Century B.C. (Cambridge2 1994); Ph. SABIN, H. van WEES, M. WHITBY (eds), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, vol. I (Cambridge 2007).

13. Macedon, Philip II, and the Greeks: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. IV: The Fourth Century B.C. (Cambridge2 1994); J. R. ELLIS, Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism (London 1976); N.G.L. HAMMOND, The Macedonian State: Origins, institutions, and history (Oxford 1989).

14. Towards a new world.

Lecture

Written test

State-of-the-art lecture on research on the most important issues and processes in the field of history, culture and religion from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity in the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin; facts, methodological concepts of research, specialist terminology and the most important contentious issues of historiography for particular periods of antiquity and their impact on modern societies.