Dr M. Davies ; Friday 11 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr A. D. Kelly ; Tuesday 11 ; Examination Schools
Prof. M. Leigh ; Thursday 11 ; Examination Schools
Dr A. J. D'Angour ; Tuesday 2:15 Wks 1-4 ; Examination Schools
Dr L. Morgan ; Monday 11 Wks 3-4 ; Examination Schools
Dr G C Trimble ; Monday 11 Wks 5-6 ; Examination Schools
Prof. M. Leigh ; Monday 11 Wks 1-2 ; Examination Schools
These lectures are primarily intended for students taking CML Prelims or Classics & English Mods, but will be of relevance to those offering the 'Sex and the City' topic for Texts and Contexts in Classics Mods, and as background to Propertius IV for Greats Latin Core.
1: Cynthia and the politics of sex.
2. Propertius and the poetics of love.
Dr L. Bendall ; Wednesday 11-1 ; Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Room
This series offers a basic introduction to the Aegean Bronze Age scripts, with particular focus on Linear B and what it can tell us about Mycenaean society. The course is intended for undergraduates taking Homeric Archaeology, Bronze Age & Early Iron Age Aegean and Minoan Crete, graduate students taking Scripts as an examined option (and any other grads who would like to sit in), and anyone generally interested in the scripts. Knowledge of Greek is not required and there is no need to sign up - just come along.
Undergraduates (and graduates)
The undergraduate part of the course runs in Weeks 1-4. Graduates should also attend this section, where we will set out the basics of what you need to know to study Linear B. Topics are as follows:
1. Introduction (overview of the scripts; decipherment of Linear B; basics)
2. Running a polity and running a palace: administration and political geography
3. The Mycenaean economy
4. Religion and banqueting
Graduates
The course will continue for graduate students in Weeks 5-8. We will identify as a group topics we wish to explore further, and students doing the Scripts option will be expected to make presentations. Topics treated in previous years include:
- Mycenaean land tenure
- Linear B ideograms
- the Pylos furniture tablets
- Mycenaean sealing systems
- Mycenaean weaponry and chariots
At some point there will be a handling session at the Ashmolean Museum, which has the largest collection of Minoan artefacts (including Linear B tablets from Knossos), outside Crete. Date and time tba.
Dr J DeLaine ; Friday 12 ; Examination Schools
Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Wednesday 12 ; Examination Schools
Prof. I.S. Lemos ; Wednesday 5-7 Wks 1-2 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Monday 12 ; Examination Schools
Dr T. Mannack ; Wednesday 3 Wks 1-4 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr L. Bendall ; Thursday 4 ; Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Room
Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology
9. Linear B and the Mycenaean economy
10. Mycenaean religion
11. Mycenaeans in Anatolia and the archaeology of Troy
12. The ‘collapse’ of Mycenaean palace society
13. Life and death in a not-so-Dark Age: Xeropolis and Lefkandi
14. Old tales and new beginnings: Greeks and Phoenicians abroad
15. ‘State’ formation once again: moving towards the polis
16. Who owns the past? Heritage, archaeology, and Aegean Prehistory
Mr A Smith ; Tuesday 2 Wks 2-7 ; Magdalen College, Lecture Room A
Dr J DeLaine ; Thursday 12 ; Examination Schools
Week 1: Introduction: nature and problems of Roman architecture, sources and documentation
Week 2: Vitruvius; Roman architects, builders and clients; the process of design
Week 3: Construction and building materials in Rome and Italy
Week 4: Republican temples and orders, Etruscan and Greek parallels
Week 5: Late Republican sanctuaries and civic centres (including concrete terracing, fora, basilicas)
Week 6: Theatres, amphitheatres, circuses
Week 7: Augustan marble revolution, regional traditions and variations in columnar architecture (esp. temples)
Week 8: Urban embellishments
Dr E. Bispham ; Wednesday 11 Wks 1-4 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr C.T. Kuhn ; Monday 11 ; Examination Schools
These lectures should prove most directly relevant to 1st year Ancient and Modern Historians taking the Augustan Rome paper in Prelims and 1st year CAAH students for the 50 BC-AD50 paper, as well as those offering Roman History 46BC-AD54 in Greats or AMH finals, but all are welcome. The aim is to explore some major aspects of the politics, society and culture of Rome during the Augustan Age. Topics to be covered: Approaches to the Augustan Age; The Establishment of the Principate; Augustus and the Ordines: Senate, Equites and Populus; Social Legislation under Augustus; Augustan Foreign Policy; Augustus and the City of Rome; Augustus and the Divine; Augustus and the Patronage of Culture.
Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Wednesday 12 ; Examination Schools
Prof. I.S. Lemos ; Wednesday 5-7 Wks 1-2 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Monday 12 ; Examination Schools
Dr T. Mannack ; Wednesday 3 Wks 1-4 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr L. Bendall ; Thursday 4 ; Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Room
Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology
9. Linear B and the Mycenaean economy
10. Mycenaean religion
11. Mycenaeans in Anatolia and the archaeology of Troy
12. The ‘collapse’ of Mycenaean palace society
13. Life and death in a not-so-Dark Age: Xeropolis and Lefkandi
14. Old tales and new beginnings: Greeks and Phoenicians abroad
15. ‘State’ formation once again: moving towards the polis
16. Who owns the past? Heritage, archaeology, and Aegean Prehistory
Dr J DeLaine ; Thursday 12 ; Examination Schools
Week 1: Introduction: nature and problems of Roman architecture, sources and documentation
Week 2: Vitruvius; Roman architects, builders and clients; the process of design
Week 3: Construction and building materials in Rome and Italy
Week 4: Republican temples and orders, Etruscan and Greek parallels
Week 5: Late Republican sanctuaries and civic centres (including concrete terracing, fora, basilicas)
Week 6: Theatres, amphitheatres, circuses
Week 7: Augustan marble revolution, regional traditions and variations in columnar architecture (esp. temples)
Week 8: Urban embellishments
Dr P. J. Barber ; Tuesday, Thursday 12 Wks 1-6 ; Examination Schools
These are the core lectures for Classical Moderations (and joint schools) special subject in Comparative Philology and for Literae Humaniores Paper V4 (the morphology course will be completed in weeks 1-4 of Trinity Term). They will be repeated next year. These informal lectures aim to introduce first-year undergraduates and other interested persons to the detailed history of Greek and Latin and to the grammar of their reconstructed ancestor, Indo-European; they also serve as an introduction to Indo- European and to the methods and aims of reconstruction. Basic knowledge of the two classical languages is helpful but not necessary and those taking Mods IB, IIA, or IIB are at no disadvantage.
There will be a large number of handouts and students will be encouraged, if they so wish, to do some elementary exercises; these are distributed at the end of each lecture and offer an opportunity for practice and reinforcement of new material and concepts. The Phonology course covers all the sounds reconstructed for the parent language and the rules of derivation, ending with the Laryngeal theory. The Morphology part will begin at the end of term with the declension of nouns.
Dr W. de Melo ; Tuesday, Thursday 12 Wks 7-8 ; Examination Schools
These are the core lectures for Classical Moderations (and joint schools) special subject in Comparative Philology and for Literae Humaniores Paper V4 (the morphology course will be completed in weeks 1-4 of Trinity Term). They will be repeated next year.
These informal lectures aim to introduce first-year undergraduates and other interested persons to the detailed history of Greek and Latin and to the grammar of their reconstructed ancestor, Indo-European; they also serve as an introduction to Indo- European and to the methods and aims of reconstruction. Basic knowledge of the two classical languages is helpful but not necessary and those taking Mods IB, IIA, or IIB are at no disadvantage.
There will be a large number of handouts and students will be encouraged, if they so wish, to do some elementary exercises; these are distributed at the end of each lecture and offer an opportunity for practice and reinforcement of new material and concepts. The Phonology course covers all the sounds reconstructed for the parent language and the rules of derivation, ending with the Laryngeal theory. The Morphology part will begin at the end of term with the declension of nouns.
Dr P. Probert ; Friday 2-3:30 Wks 2-3 ; Examination Schools
Dr M. Davies ; Friday 11 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr A. D. Kelly ; Tuesday 11 ; Examination Schools
Prof. M. Leigh ; Thursday 11 ; Examination Schools
Dr A. J. D'Angour ; Tuesday 2:15 Wks 1-4 ; Examination Schools
Dr L. Morgan ; Monday 11 Wks 3-4 ; Examination Schools
Dr G C Trimble ; Monday 11 Wks 5-6 ; Examination Schools
Prof. M. Leigh ; Monday 11 Wks 1-2 ; Examination Schools
These lectures are primarily intended for students taking CML Prelims or Classics & English Mods, but will be of relevance to those offering the 'Sex and the City' topic for Texts and Contexts in Classics Mods, and as background to Propertius IV for Greats Latin Core.
1: Cynthia and the politics of sex.
2. Propertius and the poetics of love.
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