Undergraduate courses in Classics Art/Archaeology

The materials and practices of classical Archaeology, from the Bronze Age Aegean through classical Greece and the Roman Empire. Huts and palaces, tombs and temples, and the structuring roles of the environment, demography, religion, and power. Sites include: Troy, Thera, Athens, Rome, Pompeii. Techniques include stratigraphic excavation, art historical analysis, carbon dating, and osteoarchaeology. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Trimble, J)

CLASSART 21Q. Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, Win (Shanks, M)

CLASSART 61. Introduction to Greek Archaeology

The material remains of Greek civilization, including architecture, art, and written sources, and how to interpret them; what they reveal about the world of the Greeks and about current western civilization. How has reception of the classical past influenced modern political and social development? Topics include: the palace societies of the Bronze Age, the archaic age of colonization and the rise of the polis; the beginnings of classical Athenian democracy; and the conquests of Alexander the Great.

3-5 units, not given this year

CLASSART 81. Introduction to Roman Archaeology

Methods and materials, from the 8th century B.C.E. to the 4th century C.E. The physical remains of the Roman world and their relationship to today. What material culture reveals about the Romans; the legacy of the Romans in the modern world. Sculpture, wall painting, mosaics, tombs, and architecture; and practical, field-oriented approaches. Settlement patterns; development of artistic and architectural expertise; monumentalization in the late republic and early empire; and shifts and tensions in social norms.

4-5 units, not given this year

CLASSART 101. Archaic Greek Art

(Same as ARTHIST 101, ARTHIST 301, CLASSART 201.) The development of Greek art and culture from protogeometric beginnings to the Persian Wars, 1000-480 B.C.E. The genesis of a native Greek style; the orientalizing phase during which contact with the Near East and Egypt transformed Greek art; and the synthesis of East and West in the 6th century B.C.E. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Aut (Maxmin, J)

CLASSART 102. Classical and 4th-Century Greek Art

(Same as ARTHIST 102, ARTHIST 302.) The formation of the classical ideal in 5th-century Athenian art, and its transformation and diffusion in the 5th and 4th centuries against changing Greek history, politics, and religion. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Maxmin, J)

CLASSART 109. Greek Art in and out of Context

(Same as ARTHIST 203.) The cultural contexts in which art served religious, political, commercial, athletic, sympotic, and erotic needs of Greek life.

5 units, Aut (Maxmin, J)

CLASSART 110. Appropriations of Greek Art

(Same as ARTHIST 204A.) The history of the appropriation of Greek art by Rome, the Renaissance, Lord Elgin, and Manet.

5 units, not given this year

CLASSART 113. Ten Things: Science, Technology, and Design

(Same as CLASSART 213, STS 112.) Connections among science, technology, society and culture by examining the design of a prehistoric hand axe, Egyptian pyramid, ancient Greek perfume jar, medieval castle, Wedgewood teapot, Edison's electric light bulb, computer mouse, Sony Walkman, supersonic aircraft, and BMW Mini. Interdisciplinary perspectives include archaeology, cultural anthropology, science studies, history and sociology of technology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Shanks, M)

CLASSART 114. Ceramics: Art and Science

From clay to culture. Design, technology, manufacture, and consumption of ceramics. Guest lecturers, site visits, and hands-on studio work.

3-5 units, Spr (Shanks, M)

CLASSART 149. Roman Portraits and Persons

(Same as CLASSART 249.) From Republican verism to imperial types to changes in the tetrarchy and late antiquity. Interactions of portrait heads with stock bodies, the physical setting, and visual culture more broadly. The role of ancient ideas about representation, including physiognomy, biography, social position, ethnic identity and memory. How to assign dates; techniques; how to interpret contexts and meanings. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Spr (Trimble, J)

CLASSART 300. Early Greece: Social Archaeology, 1100-700 B.C.E.

Archaeological and textual evidence for the transformation of Greek society. Economic, social, political, and cultural changes from the world of Mycenaean palaces to the small city states of the archaic period.

4-5 units, Win (Morris, I)

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Undergraduate courses in Classics Art/Archaeology