Hellenistic Art and Archaeology

Lectures will take place on Wednesdays of Weeks 1-6 at 12-1 pm and on Fridays of Weeks 1, 2, 4 and 5 at 12-1 pm.

**Please note that there will be no lecture on Friday of Weeks 3 or 6**

The lectures will look at: (1) the art and cities of the Hellenistic kingdoms at the height of their power in the third and second centuries BC - the Macedonian dynasties based in Alexandria, Antioch, and Pella; (2) the archaeology of the Macedonian interaction with local peoples in Asia and Egypt and with the old city-states that flourished within and beside the kingdoms; and (3) how the whole apparatus and technology of Hellenistic material and visual culture became available in Italy and Rome. The lectures will be as follows:

1. Kingship and Macedonia
2. World of the polis: Athens & Priene
3. Seleucid and Parthian Asia
4. Bactria and Ai Khanoum
5. Attalid Pergamon: royal acropolis
6. Attalid Pergamon: the Great Altar
7. Ptolemaic Egypt
8. Ptolemaic Alexandria
9. Delos to Italy
10. Hellenistic Rome

The lectures are essential for anyone taking (a) the CAAH finals course Rome, Italy, and the Hellenistic East, or (b) the new archaeological special subject Hellenistic Art and Archaeology in Greats, CML, and COS. It will be of direct relevance to those taking The Hellenistic World: Cultures and Societies subject in Ancient History, and of interest to anyone who wants to know about the rich and diverse visual culture that came after Classical Athens and informed that of Republican and Imperial Rome.

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