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Week 1 07.09 |
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Thursday: |
Basic Introduction: Syllabus |
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Analytical Process towards Culture |
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Creation Myths (part 1) |
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Assignment 1: How would you define your culture? |
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Monday: |
Creation Myths (part 2)
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Timeline: Prehistory |
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Tuesday: |
• Prehistoric Flute Found in Germany |
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Lascaux Caves, France |
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Mammoth Cave National Park |
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Sanctuary in Les Trois Freres, Ariege |
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Sorcerer images |
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Clay Bison |
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• Neanderthal Conflict with Early Human |
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• Comet Killed off Ice-Age Animals |
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Larger image of Venus de Willendorf |
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• New Venus Figurine Found |
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Wednesday: |
Neolithic Enthroned Goddess |
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Comparisons |
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Seated Goddess |
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Poulnabrone, a dolmen in Ireland |
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The Géant du Manio, a menhir in Brittany. |
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Megalithic Stones in Brittany, France |
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Stonehedge the UK's National Trust.org |
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Sunrise at Stonehedge: Summer Solstice 2006 Summer Solstice 2003 |
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Sunrise at Stonehege, Graphic |
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Stonehedge Construction Timeline |
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Cultural Timeline |
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• Solstice Sunrise at Stonehedge |
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Building Stonehedge : Youtube |
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List of Megalithic Sites |
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• National Geographic: Neglect, Not Looting, Threatens Irag Sites, Study Says |
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Iraq Museum International |
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Sumerian Seal Collector |
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The Sumerian God Abu c. 27,000-26,000 BCE Tell Asmar |
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Thursday: |
• Chapter 2 "The Ancient Near East" p 20: The Mesopotamian Cosmos |
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pp 23-26: The First Epic Poem |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh supplemental |
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Week 2 07.20 |
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Monday: |
Sleeping Lady, Malta c. 3100 BCE |
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Comparisons 2 |
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Akkad ruler comparisons with Sumerian |
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Babylonia Ruler Hammurabi |
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Assyrian Relief Sculpture |
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• Chapter 2 "The Ancient Near East" pp 35-37: Kingship and "Heads" of State |
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• Chapter 3 "Ancient Egypt" pp 41-45: Pharaohs, Concept of Time, 49: Society and Culture |
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Nile |
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Osiris as Pharaoh |
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Female Figure, Egypt 3500 BC |
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Comparisons 3 |
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Tuesday: |
Early Pyramids |
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Golden Age of the Pyramids |
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Influence on the Modern: Shepard Fairey, graffitti artist Iraq Print |
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U.S. Dollar |
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Two Views of the Pharaoh Khafra |
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Comparison 4 |
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Sphinx |
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Egyptian Artistic Proportions |
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Representations of Animals and Human Forms
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Three views of the Pharaoh Akhenaton |
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Pharaoh Akhenaton and Family |
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Wednesday: |
• Chapter 3 "Ancient Egypt" pp 45-48: Religion, 50-62
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• Egyptian Book of the Dead, "Hymn to Osiris" supplemental |
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The Papyrus of Ani |
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The Shipwrecked Sailor YakovRabinovich, trans. |
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Example of Demotic Writing |
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Thursday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Week 3 07.27 |
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Monday: |
Midterm |
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Tuesday: |
Map of the Aegean World (see page 72 in text) |
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Ceramic Plate |
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Phaistos Disc |
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Cycladic images |
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Queen megaron |
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West House Thera |
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Prince of the Lilies |
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Bull Leaping |
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Wrestling Boxing |
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• Chap 4 “The Aegean World” pp 68-70: Minoan Religion, p 71: Music & Ritual, |
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Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
• Chap 4 “The Aegean World” p 74: Homeric Literary Devices |
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Homer Odyssey supplemental |
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Herodotus |
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Herodotus-Homer-Hesiod |
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Thursday: |
• Chapter 5 “The Emergence of Historical Greece” pp 85-89 (stop after ‘The Oracle’) |
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• p 89: Olympic Games, p 114: Poetry: Pindar on Athletes |
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Pindaric Odes supplemental |
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Influence on the Modern: Martha Graham |
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Oral Recitation of Pindar |
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Week 4 08.03 |
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Monday: |
• Chapter 6 “Ancient Greece: Classical to Hellenistic” pp 111-114 (stop before Pindar)
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Socrates Apology, Recorded by Plato |
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Sappho New Sapphic Verse found Image of papyrus discovered |
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Greek Sculpture Chronology |
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• Geometric / Archaic |
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• Kourus / Kritios |
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Tuesday: |
• Classical / Late Classical |
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• Late Classical |
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• Chapter 6 “Ancient Greece: Classical to Hellenistic” pp 126-127: Greek Theater |
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Sophocles, Oedious Rex supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Etruscan and the Early Roman Republic
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Thursday: |
• Chapter 7 “Ancient Rome” pp 152-154: Chronology and History
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Final Project Outlined / Final Project Preparations |
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Week 5 08.09 |
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Monday: |
Final Project Preparations |
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Roman Law |
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Tuesday: |
Final Project Preparations |
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Hadrian's Wall • Map |
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Roman Bath, England • Mosiac design |
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• Chapter 10 “The Early Middle Ages” p 241, p 252: Ireland and the Book of Kells |
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Book of Kells |
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Codex Sinaiticus: The Oldest Known Bible in Greek |
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• Chapter 12 “The Transition from Gothic to Early Renaissance” p 31, p 302: Joan of Arc |
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p 303 The Black Death |
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Morality Plays: Everyman supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Class will meet at scheduled time for Final Project Presentation. |
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Gothic Elements in Architecture |
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Milan, Italy • Paris, France • London, England • Gothic Revival |
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