Dr C. V. Crowther ; Thursday 10 Wks 1-4 ; Schools (Wks 1-3); Ioannou Centre (Wk 4)
These four lectures examine aspects of the epigraphical evidence for the period 403-336 BC.
I. Reading fourth-century inscriptions.
II. The world seen from Athens.
III. Non-Athenian perspectives.
IV. Society and Economy.
Prof. R. Thomas ; Wednesday 11 ; Schools (Wks 1-3); Ioannou Centre (Wks 4-8)
These lectures are designed especially for those taking Herodotus and Early Greek History (Lit.Hum), Early Greece and the Mediterranean (CAAH), Greek history c.650-479 B.C. (AMH) and The World of Homer and Hesiod (AMH). They will concentrate particularly on the literary and epigraphic sources in comparison with the archaeological evidence. Topics will include: the early polis, traditions of colonisation and the archaeological evidence, early Greek writing and its significance, Herodotus as a source and writer, orientialisation, the growing interaction of the Greek world with the Persian Empire. They will begin with the themes and material relevant to the earlier part of the period for those who are being examined on Early Greece and the Mediterranean this term.
Dr P. S. Haarer ; Monday 9 Wks 1-4 ; Schools
These four lectures explore the contributions inscriptions can make to the study of the Greek world ca. 650-479 B.C. They aim to emphasise methodological and thematic topics, and are generously illustrated with slides. The series is aimed primarily at students reading "The Early Greek World and Herodotos", but will be of benefit also to those studying "The Greeks and the Mediterranean World", "Early Greece and the Mediterranean", or any other paper in archaic Greek history or archaeology as part of Greats, AMH or CAAH FHS. A knowledge of ancient Greek is not essential.
The selection of epigraphic documents we shall meet are collected together in a dossier giving the texts in Greek and translation along with copious images of the inscribed objects. This can be downloaded from Weblearn via the link below (you must be logged in to do this), and it is essential that you browse through the dossier in advance and bring a copy with you to the lectures.
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/classics/undergraduate/paper%20descriptions%20_%20resources/Dossiers/ (Webauth login required)
Lecture 1: An introduction to archaic Greek inscriptions (Local scripts, writing directions, archaeological context; alphabetic Greek writing and its Mediterranean context).
Lecture 2: Reading inscriptions (a case study of ML 2 (Dreros); Who read inscriptions?)
Lecture 3: Accidents of Survival, Lies, Damn Lies, and Inscriptions.
Lecture 4: Inscriptions and Greeks (and others) in the Mediterranean World.
Dr I Galanakis, Dr P. S. Haarer ; Monday 4 Wk 2 Monday 2 Wk 3 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof. A Chaniotis ; Thursday 10 ; All Souls, Hovenden Room
Dr B Dignas, Dr T. Mannack ; Monday 3-5 Wk 8 ; Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College
Dr J.C. Quinn ; Wednesday 9 ; Schools (weeks 1-4); Worcester College (weeks 5-8)
These lectures examine issues and problems in Roman History from the fall of Carthage to c. 70 BCE. They are intended for those taking the Roman History 146-46 course in CAAH, AMH and Greats, but all are welcome.
Dr E. Bispham ; Friday 11 Wks 1, 3, 5, 7 ; Schools (weeks 1, 3); Ioannou Centre (weeks 5, 7)
Week 1:
"The Cyrene Edicts of Augustus"
Week 3:
"The Imperial Family (Tabula Siarensis and related documents)"
Week 5:
"The Senatusconsultum de Pisone patre and related texts"
Week 7:
"Roman Citizenship"
Dr E. Bispham ; Wednesday 10 ; Schools (weeks 1-4); Brasenose (weeks 5-8)
The aim of these lectures is to analyse and discuss the political life in Rome between 65 and 43 BC seen through the lens of Cicero’s letters. The lectures will be:
1. An Epistolary Culture.
2. From Hero to Zero (62-60 BC).
3. Caesar, Pompey and Crassus – and Cicero (60-58 BC).
4. From triumphant return to political submission (57-52 BC).
5. Governor in Cilicia (51-50 BC).
6. Civil War (49-48 BC).
7. Living without Libertas (47-44 BC).
8. The last stand (44-43 BC).
The lectures are intended for those in their third or fourth year of Greats doing Roman history I.5; for those doing the Special Subject on Cicero: Politics and Thought (Greats, CAAH and AMH), and for students of Ancient and Modern History and CAAH doing the Republican period.
Dr J.C. Quinn ; Tuesday 10 Wks 1-4 ; Schools (Wks 1-3); Lecture Theatre, Worcester College (Wk 4)
These lectures on the histories of Polybius are intended for Greats students taking Roman History 1.4 and AMH Mods students taking the Roman history 241-146 paper.
Dr D. Mladenovic, Dr B. Russell ; Tuesday 4 Wks 1-4 ; Institute of Archaeology
Dr D. Mladenovic , Dr D. Booms; Tuesday, Thursday 2:30 Wks 1-4 ; Institute of Archaeology (except Tuesday Week 1: Ioannou Centre)
Week 1, 3 May, 5 May: The Pompeian styles of wall painting in Rome and Italy; Wall painting beyond Pompeii.
Week 2, 10 May, 12 May: Provincial wall painting and mosaics in Italy; Provincial mosaics.
Week 3, 17 May, 19 May: Representing self and divine in the provinces; Funerary art in the provinces
Week 4, 24 May, 26 May: Depicting the imperial family in the provinces; Minor Arts
Prof. A.I. Wilson ; Wednesday 2:30-4 Wks 1-2 ; Institute of Archaeology
Dr I Galanakis, Dr P. S. Haarer ; Monday 4 Wk 2 Monday 2 Wk 3 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof J. Baines, Dr E. Frood; Friday 10 Wks 1-4 ; Oriental Institute, Lecture Room I
This course surveys ancient Egyptian art from around 3000 BC to Graeco-Roman times, with examples and detailed material being drawn mainly from the second half of the period. The approach ranges from discussion of the position of art in Egyptian society to detailed study of individual artifacts and types. The Egyptian collections in the Ashmolean Museum are used for part of the course. The lectures move from architecture - notably temples and tombs - within works belonging to other genres were sited, to relief, painting, statuary, decorative and ephemeral arts, genres such as the stela and the sarcophagus, and the legacy of Egyptian art in the West. Issues raised by the material include the nature of artistic traditions, art and agency, representational forms, text and image, and approaches to iconography. Some of these are explored in lectures and in classes and tutorials. (Course convenor: Prof. J. Baines, Oriental Institute).
Dr T. Mannack, Dr J Masseglia ; Wednesday 5 Wks 1-4 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr S Skaltsa ; Monday, Friday 2 Wks 1-6 ; Ioannou Centre
The lectures aim to offer a survey of cities, main sanctuaries, and cemeteries of the Greek world. They will discuss developments of urban planning and architecture of the Greek polis, the emergence and organization of Greek sanctuaries and the evolution of public and private architecture (temples, civic buildings, houses and funeral monuments).
Themes covered include:
Origins and developments of the Greek city. Design and planning: west Greek cities. Hyppodameian examples. Compare and contrast Athens, Piraeus, Miletus, and Olynthus.
Types and examples of sanctuaries. Temples: Doric and Ionic temples. Developments: Ionic temples, western Greek temples, exceptional temples (Parthenon).
Cemeteries: Kerameikos, Rhamnous, Macedonian tombs, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Public and Private space: Agoras, Stoas, and Theatres. Private space: Eretria, Olynthos, Athens, and Pella.
Dr T. Mannack ; Tuesday 9 Wks 1-4 Thursday 12 Wks 1-4 ; Schools, except Th. Wk 4 (26 May): Ioannou Centre
The eight lectures will deal with the images of the Geometric Period, the beginning of narrative representations, the impact of the arts of the orient, and with the gods, heroes and humans depicted in Greek art.
Dr C. Draycott ; Wednesday, Friday 12 Wks 1-5 ; Ioannou Centre
The main categories of Greek sculpture, 500-300 BC, are set against their historical background. Lectures examine the contexts and purposes of the major documented monuments, and describe the broad changes in the representation of gods, heroes, athletes, and citizens. Subjects include the temple sculptures of imperial Athens, the impact of new patrons, such as Lycian dynasts and Macedonian kings, and the formulation of new civic identities in funerary sculpture and honorific statuary. The emphasis is less on artists and development, more on interpreting visual styles in response to changing public needs.
1. Introduction
2. The early fifth-century revolution
3. Athletes, gods, and heroes, 480-430 BC
4. Olympia, Temple of Zeus
5. Athena Parthenos
6. Parthenon
7. Victories and battles, 430-400 BC
8. Eastern dynasts: Lycia, Caria, Phoenicia
9. Athletic and divine statuary, 400-300 BC
10. The good citizen: portraits and self-representation, 480-300 BC.
Dr D. Booms; Monday, Wednesday 12 Wks 1-4 ; Schools
Lecture 1 Theatres, amphitheatres, circuses
Lecture 2 Urban embellishments
Lecture 3 Baths
Lecture 4 Regional construction and adaptation
Lecture 5 Roman housing I: early housing in Italy
Lecture 6 Roman housing II: housing in the imperial period
Lecture 7 Roman housing III: palaces and villas
Lecture 8 Architecture of the late empire
Dr J Masseglia ; Thursday 5 Wks 1-4 ; Institute of Archaeology
The classes will look again at key themes, monuments, and images from the archaeological side of the course. Two classes will be on the archaeology of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and two on central Italy and Rome. There will be picture question practice.
Dr M Riedel; Thursday 2:15-3:30 Wks 1-5 ; Oriental Institute, Lecture Room 2
Trinity Term 2011
Byzantine Church History
Seminar
Thursdays, 2:15-3:30pm
***ALL WELCOME***
Convenors:
Dr Jane Baun
Dr Julia Konstantinovsky
Dr Meredith Riedel
(meredith.riedel@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Week 1: 5 May
Irene Kukota (Wolfson)
‘Calcatio colli as an Iconographic Element of Christ’s Descent into Hades’
Week 2: 12 May
David Taylor (Oriental Institute)
‘Return to Eden? The changing theology and mapping of Paradise in Syriac literature’
Week 3: 19 May
Maja Kominko (Theology Faculty)
‘Ugly as Sin: Monsters and Barbarians in Late Antiquity’
Week 4: 26 May
Jane Baun (St Benet’s)
‘Gregory the Great between East, West and the End’
Week 5: 2 June
Julia Konstantinovsky (Christ Church)
‘Praxis and contemplation in the Byzantine tradition – the case of Evagrius and Maximus’
Mr J. D. Howard-Johnston, Mr B Ward-Perkins ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Trinity College
After Rome: Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the 5th to 7th Centuries:
5pm Thursdays, Sutro Room, Trinity College
1st Week (5 May): Khodadad Rezakhani (LSE)
‘Agriculture, commerce, and growth: the Sasanian economy in the late antique world, 500-700’
2nd Week (12 May): Marek Jankowiak (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘All Christians under my authority should hold the faith of Armenia: Khusro II and the Churches’
3rd Week (19 May): Peter Talloen (University of Kent)
'The Christianization of Pisidia'
4th Week (26 May): Renan Baker (Classics, Oxford)
'Written in stone: Theoderic Augustus and imperial propaganda in Ostrogothic Italy'
5th Week (2 June): Shane Bjornlie (Claremont McKenna College, California)
‘The last of the Romans: Cassiodorus between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople’
6th Week (9 June): Konstantin Klein (Classics, Oxford)
‘In search of Lot’s wife: old and new saints for Jerusalem’
7th Week (16 June): Nicolai Sinai (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘Towards a contextual reading of the Qur'anic corpus: promises, problems, and pitfalls’
8th Week (23 June): Arezou Azad (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘Bactra: From Buddhism to Islam’
Conveners: James Howard-Johnston, Bryan Ward-Perkins
Prof. R.C.T. Parker ; Tuesday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
10 May: Daniel Ogden, Exeter, 'The Macedonian Foundation Myths'
17 May: Pietro Vannicelli, Rome, 'Herodotus and Bacchylides on Alexander I of Macedon'
24 May: Peter Rhodes, Durham, 'The Chalcidic League'
31 May: Jack Kroll, Texas and Oxford, 'Macedonian Coinage'
7 June: Robin Lane Fox, Oxford, ‘Philip II: the big picture’
14 June: Miltiades Hatzopoulos, Athens, ‘Thucydides, Historical Geography and the 'Lost Years' of Perdikkas II’
Dr G R Parpulov ; Thursday 12 ; Ioannou Centre
Seminar in Byzantine Art and Archaeology (conveners Lukas A. Schachner and Georgi R. Parpulov)
Trinity Term 2011, 12:00-1:00 on Thursday, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University
5 May: Jeremy Johns (Wolfson College) "Muslim Artists and Christian Art in the Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina, Palermo"
12 May: Mark Jackson (University of Newcastle) "Recent Excavations of the Byzantine Settlement at Kilise Tepe"
19 May: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) "Who, Where, Why and How? Four Basic Steps in Fresco Decoration on Venetian-Dominated Crete"
26 May: Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College) "Excavating 'Byzantine' Luna, 30 Years on"
2 June: Richard Marks (Cambridge University) "The 'Afterlife' of the Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir"
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9 June: Helen Whitehouse (Oriental Institute) "A Unicorn amidst the Birds and Beasts: An Unusual Drawing on an Oxyrhynchus Papyrus"
16 June: Ioanna Christophoraki (Academy of Athens) "A Tale of Two Icons: St Martin and Madonna with St Francis"
23 June: Peter Frankopan (Worcester College) "Byzantine Sigillography"
Dr I.T. Toth ; Tuesday 2 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof. I.S. Lemos, Dr S Walker ; Monday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
2 May: Professor Stelios Andreou (Univ. of Thessaloniki): Macedonia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages
9 May: Dr Bettina Tsigarida (Archaeological Unit, Thessaloniki): Macedonian Jewellery.
16 May: Dr Hallie M. Franks (New York University): Hunting Scenes on Hellenistic Paintings
23 May: Dr Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, (Ephor Aiani): Aiani and the upper Macedonia, Archaeological and Historical Research
30 May: Professor Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli (Univ. of Thessaloniki): Vergina excavations by the University of Thessaloniki
6 June: Dr Stavros Paspalas (Assistant Director of the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens): The Cities of the Chalkidic Peninsula: From Archaic to Classical.
Dr A. Benaissa ; Tuesday 3:30-5 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr C. V. Crowther, Prof. R.C.T. Parker, Dr J.R.W. Prag ; Monday 1 Wks 2-6, 8 ; Ioannou Centre
Mr S. Day, Mr A Ellis-Evans ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 1: Boris Chrubasik (Christ Church)
Kings, Friends and Usurpers: Considerations on the Construction and Deconstruction of an Empire
Week 2: William Mack (Corpus Christi)
Proxenia: New Approaches to an Honorific Institution
Week 3: Marco Vitale (Classics Faculty, Oxford University) Allegory of Empire?
Symbolic Representation of Territorial Power from the Achaemenids to the Romans
Week 4: Ben Raynor (New)
King and City in Late Fourth and Early Third Century BC Macedonia; Some Problems and New Perspectives
Week 5: Thom Russell (St Hilda's)
Who Founded Ancient Byzantium?
Week 6: Simon Day (Balliol)
The Position of Praefectus Classis and the Command of Fleets in the Roman Republic (TBC)
Week 7: Marijn Visscher (Oxford University / Leiden University)
Landscape of Languages. A Study of the Epigraphic Use of Provincial Languages in the Roman Empire
Week 8: TBA
Andrew Stiles (Merton)
Dr J Masseglia , Mr J. Rosenberg; Thursday 1 Wks 1, 3, 5, 7 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Week 1 (5th May)
Ellen Adams (KCL):
Peopling Minoan Crete
Week 3 (19th May)
Kate Cooper (Fitzwilliam Museum):
The art of displaying Greece and Rome. Have museums got it right?
Week 5 (2nd June)
Susan Turner (Reading):
Going Through The Motions? Making Sense of Death in Representations of Greek Funerary Ritual
Week 7 (16th June)
Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck):
Beyond the polis: the archaeology of cult in the Bosporan kingdom
Prof. A Chaniotis ; Thursday 10 ; All Souls, Hovenden Room
Dr M. Whittow ; Wednesday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Ms J. Thompson; Friday 5:15-6:30 Wks 1, 3, 5, 7 ; Fraenkel Room, Corpus Christi College
Prof. R.R.R. Smith ; Tuesday 5 Wk 1 ; McGregor Matthews Room, New College
Professor R. R. R. Smith, 'Ancient Beards'
'Ancient Beards'
Dr P. Collins, Dr C. Draycott, Dr J. Green, Dr Y. Galanakis, Dr A. Ulbrich; Thursday 1 Wks 2, 4, 6 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Week 2 (12 May): David Blackman, University of Oxford,
'Minoan Seafarers, Egypt and the Levant'
Week 4 (26 May): Lindy Crewe, University of Manchester,
'Community interaction in Bronze Age Cyprus: global to local, and back again, at Kissonerga'
Week 6 (9 June): Wolfgang Zwickel, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz,
'Ritual iconography in the East Mediterranean: the Iron Age II favissa at Yavneh, Israel'
Ms R Hesse, Ms E Rowan, Prof. A.I. Wilson ; Wednesday 1 ; Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology
Prof. T. Rajak; Tuesday 2:30-4 Wks 1-4 ; Oriental Institute
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays in the Oriental Institute, in the Faculty Room at 2.30 pm, except where otherwise indicated.
Convener: Professor Tessa Rajak.
Professor Sarah Pearce, Southampton
3 May: ‘De Decalogo: Philo as Interpreter of the Ten Commandments’ (2 pm, Room 314).
Dr Naama Vilozny , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10 May: ‘Jewish Magic Art in Late Antiquity between Babylonia and Palestine’.
Dr Eran Almagor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
17 May, ‘Josephus and Persia’.
Dr Yossi David, Oriental Institute
24 May: ‘The End of Kinship – Understanding Incest within the Jewish Theological Framework’.
The following event should also be noted:
Professors Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina and Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland
3 May: ‘Rabbis in Context’: an afternoon colloquium (organized by the Centre for Late Antiquity, 3.30 pm, Trinity College).
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