Archaeology

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ARCH 200-01	The Olympic Games Instructor: Christofilis Maggidis Course Description: A survey of the origins, birth, and historical development of the Olympic Games in antiquity. This course examines the principles and organization of the games, the types of games and their rules, their natural and architectural setting in Olympia, and their religious context through an interdisciplinary and comparative study of archaeological, historical and iconographical evidence: famous athletes, interaction with the spectators, prizes and honors to Olympic victors, Olympic incidents. The bonding role of the panhellenic Olympic games for the Greeks as a people and the contribution of the Games in the emergence of ancient democracy. Comparisons will be made with the modern Olympics and assessment of the lasting impact of the Olympic Games upon on our modern world.	1030:TR DENNY 317
ARCH 222-01	Ancient Greek Sculpture Instructor: Christofilis Maggidis Course Description: Cross-listed with ARTH 205-03.	0900:TR DENNY 317
ARCH 300-01	Archaeological Method & Theory Instructor: Maria Bruno Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 300-01.	1330:W DEAL 1
ARCH 318-01	Advanced Applications in GIS Instructor: James Ciarrocca Course Description: Cross-listed with ERSC 318-01 and ENST 318-01.	0930:MWF 1330:F
ARCH 390-01	Death & Burial in Anc World Instructor: Christofilis Maggidis Course Description: The Archaeology of Death: a survey of burial customs, funerary ritual, and eschatology in the Mediterranean (Greece, Aegean, Rome), Anatolia, Egypt and the Near East. Comparative study of ancient burial customs, funerary ritual and architecture based on the archaeological record, anthropological and iconographical evidence, and ancient literary sources. Patterns of uniformity and of spatial/chronological variation and development in different regions, historical and cultural contexts. Symbolisms and meaning of burial customs and rituals, tomb types, funerary gifts and offerings, libations, sacrifices, feasts, ceremonies and games. The cemetery as a territorial marker, an arena for socio-political domination, and an extension of the living city. Social ranking in burial contexts, social dimensions of a biological phenomenon; the heterotopy and mnemoscape of death; analysis of the relation between public/private life and death through both personal and social prism. Survivals and reflections in our modern world.	1330:M DEAL 1
ARCH 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Maria Bruno Course Description:	:
ARCH 550-01	Independent Research Instructor: Christofilis Maggidis Course Description:	: