Archaeology Readings Greek - UT Liberal Arts

1 Archaeology Program -- Greek reading Lista. General works:i. Greek : Pedley, Greek Art and Archaeology (Upper Saddle River, 4th edition, 2007). ii. Osborne, R. Archaic and Classical Greek Art. (Oxford 1998). iii. Pollit, Art and Experience in Classical Greece. ( cambridge 1972) iv. Whitley, J. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. ( cambridge , 2001). v. Alcock, S. and R. Osborne, Classical Archaeology . ( cambridge , 2007).b. Area Readings :i. Aegean Bronze Age 1. Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age . ( cambridge 1994). 2. Shelmerdine, C. The cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age . (Cambridge2008). ii. Vase Painting and Ceramics 1. Boardman, J. The History of Greek Vases. (London 2001). 2. Lissarrague, F. Greek Vases: The Athenians and their Images. (New York 2001). 3. Trendall, The Red-Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily. (London 1989). 4. Rotroff, S. and A. Oliver, Hellenistic Pottery ( cambridge , MA, In press).5. Vickers, M. and D. Gill, Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery (Oxford 1994).

2 Ii. Sculpture 1. Boardman, J. Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period . (London 1978). 2. Boardman, J. Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period . (London 1985). 3. Smith, Hellenistic Sculpture: A Handbook . (London 1991). 4. Spivey, N. Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings . (New York 1996). 5. Mattusch, C. Greek Bronze Statuary from the Beginning through the 5th century BC(Ithaca, , 1988), especially chapters 1-5. 6. Dillon, S. Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture , ( cambridge and New York 2006). iv. Architecture 1. Camp, The Archaeology of Athens . (New Haven, 2001). 2. Coulton, Greek Architects at Work: Problems of Structure and Design . (Ithaca,NY, 1977). 3. Lawrence, and Tomlinson. Greek Architecture . (Harmondsworth, 1983 4thedition). 4. Pollitt, J. J. Art in the Hellenistic Age. ( cambridge 1986), ch. Topic Readings :i. Urbanism 1. de Polignac, F. Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek City-State. (Chicago 1995). 2.

3 Parker Pearson, M. and C. Richards, Architecture and Order: Approaches to SocialSpace. (London and New York 1994). 3. Osborne, R. and B. Cunliffe, Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC. (Oxford2005). ii. Trade and connectivity 1. Parkins, H and Chr. Smith, Trade, Traders and the Ancient City. (London and NewYork 1998). 2. Gale, , ed., Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean = Studies in MediterraneanArchaeology 90. (Jonsered 1991). 3. Boardman, J. The Greeks Overseas: their Early Colonies and Trade. (New York 19994th ed.) 4. Descoeudres, , ed. Greek Colonists and Native Populations. (Canberra 1999) 5. Hodos, T. Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean. (Abingdon 2006). 6. Tsetskhladze, G. and F. De Angelis, eds. The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation. (Oxford 1994). iii. Space and domestic architecture 1. Cahill, N. Household and City Organization at Olynthus . (New Haven & London2002). 2. Nevett, L. Houses and Society in the Ancient Greek World.

4 ( cambridge 1999) 3. Ault, and Nevett, eds. Ancient Greek Houses and Households:Chronological, Regional and Social Diversity. (Philadelphia 2005) (all contributions) 4. Tsakirgis, B. Morgantina. A Greek town in central Sicily. ActaHyp 6 (1995) 123-147 iv. Identity and Ethnicity: hellenization, culture contact and influence 1. Hall, J. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. (Chicago 2002). 2. Meskell, L. Archaeologies of identity. In I. Hodder (ed.), Archaeological Theory Today (Oxford 2001) 187-213. 3. Antonaccio, C. Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture. In C. Dougherty and eds. The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture ( cambridge 2003). 4. Root, The Parthenon frieze and the Apadana reliefs at Persepolis: reassessing aprogrammatic relationship. AJA 89 (1985) 103-20. v. Memory and Nostalgia 1. Alcock, Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscapes, Monuments, and Memories.( cambridge 2002). 2. Boardman, J. The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-created their MythicalPast.

5 ( London 2002). vi. Chronology, Value and Revision 1. Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and Historyof the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium (Oxford 1999). 2. Wiener, Time Out: The Current Impasse in Bronze Age Archaeological Dating. Foster and R. Laffineur, eds., METRON: Measuring the Aegean BronzeAgeAEGAEUM 24 (2003) 363-99. 3. Cook, The Francis-Vickers Chronology. JHS 109 (1989) 164-70. 4. Robertson, M. Beazley and after. MJbK 27 (1976) 29-46. 5. Whitley, J. Beazley as theorist. Antiquity 71 (1997) 40-47 .vii. Death and Burial 1. Morris, I. Burial and ancient society. The rise of the Greek city-state ( cambridge 1987) and Morris, I. 'Burial and ancient society' after ten years, in N cropoles et ologies, pratiques et interpr tations. Actes du colloque "Th ories de la n cropoleantique", Lyon 21 - 25 janvier 1995 . (Paris 1998) 21-36. 2. Carter, J. C. The chora of Metaponto: the necropoleis.

6 (Austin 1998). 3. Venit, M. The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria. ( cambridge 2002). 4. Cavanagh, W. and C. Mee. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece. (Jonsered1998), esp. chs. 8-9 = 103-136. 5. Voutsaki, S. Social and Political Processes in the Mycenaean Argolid: The Evidencefrom the Mortuary Practices. In R. Laffineur and Niemeier (eds), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age = Aegaeum 12. (Li ge 1994) 55-65. 6. Branigan, K., ed. Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998). Modified Aug 21 2009R Taylor