Classical Archaeology Of Ancient Greece And Rome (the Great Courses, Classical Archaeology Of Ancient Greece And Rome)

Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and takes a thematic approach in exploring what archaeology has contributed to knowledge of ancient diet, entertainment, engineering, slavery, religion, the role of women, and other topics. Read more... Abstract: Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and takes a thematic approach in exploring what archaeology has contributed to knowledge of ancient diet, entertainment, engineering, slavery, religion, the role of women, and other topics Classical Archaeology of 1 Ancient Greece and Rome 1 Part I: Creating a Science of the Past 1 Professor John R. Hale 1 John R. Hale, Ph.D. 2 Table of Contents 3 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 3 Part I: Creating a Science of the Past 3 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 4 Lecture One 6 Archaeology’s Big Bang 6 Outline 6 Lecture Two 10 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 10 Outline 10 Lecture Three 13 A Quest for the Trojan War 13 Outline 13 Lecture Four 16 How to Dig 16 Outline 16 Lecture Five 20 First Find Your Site 20 Outline 20 Lecture Six 24 Taking the Search Underwater 24 Outline 24 Lecture Seven 27 Cracking the Codes 27 Outline 27 Lecture Eight 30 Techniques for Successful Dating 30 Outline 30 Lecture Nine 34 Reconstructing Vanished Environments 34 Outline 34 Lecture Ten 38 “Not Artifacts but People” 38 Outline 38 Lecture Eleven 42 Archaeology by Experiment 42 Outline 42 Lecture Twelve 46 Return to Vesuvius 46 Outline 46 Timeline I 49 Important Periods of Greek and Roman History 49 Timeline II 51 Classical Archaeology 51 Classical Archaeology of 56 Ancient Greece and Rome 56 Part II: An Archaeologist’s Casebook 56 Professor John R. Hale 56 John R. Hale, Ph.D. 57 Table of Contents 58 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 58 Part II: An Archaeologist’s Casebook 58 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 59 Gournia—Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess 61 Outline 61 Lecture Fourteen 65 Thera—A Bronze Age Atlantis? 65 Outline 65 Lecture Fifteen 69 Olympia—Games and Gods 69 Outline 69 Lecture Sixteen 72 Athens’s Agora—Where Socrates Walked 72 Outline 72 Lecture Seventeen 76 Delphi—Questioning the Oracle 76 Outline 76 Lecture Eighteen 79 Kyrenia—Lost Ship of the Hellenistic Age 79 Outline 79 Lecture Nineteen 82 Riace—Warriors from the Sea 82 Outline 82 Lecture Twenty 85 Rome—Foundation Myths and Archaeology 85 Outline 85 Lecture Twenty-One 89 Caesarea Maritima—A Roman City in Judea 89 Outline 89 Lecture Twenty-Two 93 Teutoburg Forest—Battlefield Archaeology 93 Outline 93 Lecture Twenty-Three 96 Bath—Healing Waters at Aquae Sulis 96 Outline 96 Lecture Twenty-Four 99 Torre de Palma—A Farm in the Far West 99 Outline 99 Glossary 102 Biographical Notes 106 Classical Archaeology of 108 Ancient Greece and Rome 108 Part III: A View from the Trenches 108 Professor John R. Hale 108 John R. Hale, Ph.D. 109 Table of Contents 110 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 110 Part III: A View from the Trenches 110 Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome 111 Lecture Twenty-Five 113 Roots of Classical Culture 113 Outline 113 Lecture Twenty-Six 117 The Texture of Everyday Life 117 Outline 117 Lecture Twenty-Seven 121 Their Daily Bread 121 Outline 121 Lecture Twenty-Eight 125 Voyaging on a Dark Sea of Wine 125 Outline 125 Lecture Twenty-Nine 128 Shows and Circuses—Rome’s “Virtual Reality” 128 Outline 128 Lecture Thirty 132 Engineering and Technology 132 Outline 132 Lecture Thirty-One 135 Slaves—A Silent Majority? 135 Outline 135 Lecture Thirty-Two 139 Women of Greece and Rome 139 Outline 139 Lecture Thirty-Three 142 Hadrian—Mark of the Individual 142 Outline 142 Lecture Thirty-Four 145 Crucible of New Faiths 145 Outline 145 Lecture Thirty-Five 148 The End of the World—A Coroner’s Report 148 Outline 148 Lecture Thirty-Six 151 A Bridge across the Torrent 151 Outline 151 Bibliography 155 Content: Part 1. Creating a science of the past -- lecture 1. Archaeology's big bang -- lecture 2. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- lecture 3. A quest for the Trojan War -- lecture 4. How to dig -- Lecture 5. First find your site -- lecture 6. Taking the search underwater -- lecture 7. Cracking the codes -- lecture 8. Techniques for successful dating -- lecture 9. Reconstructing vanished environments -- lecture 10. "Not artifacts but people" -- lecture 11. Archaeology by experiment -- lecture 12. Return to Vesuvius. Part 2. An archaeologist's casebook -- lecture 13. Gournia--Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess -- lecture 14. Thera--a Bronze Age Atlantis? -- lecture 15. Olympia--games and gods -- lecture 16. Athens' Agora--where Socrates walked -- lecture 17. Delphi--questioning the oracle -- lecture 18. Kyrenia--lost ship of the Hellenistic Age -- lecture 19. Riace--warriors from the Sea -- lecture 20. Rome--foundation myths and archaeology -- lecture 21. Caesarea Maritima--a Roman city in Judea -- lecture 22. Teutoburg--battlefield archaeology -- lecture 23. Bath--healing waters at Aquae Sulis -- lecture 24. Torre de Palma--a farm in the far West. Part 3. A view from the trenches -- lecture 25. Roots of classical culture -- lecture 26. The texture of everyday life -- lecture 27. Their daily bread -- lecture 28. Voyaging on a dark sea of wine -- lecture 29. Shows and circuses--Rome's "virtual reality" -- lecture 30. Engineering and technology -- lecture 31. Slaves--a silent majority? -- lecture 32. Women of Greece and Rome -- lecture 33. Hadrian--mark of the individual -- lecture 34. Crucible of new faiths -- lecture 35. The end of the world--a coroner's report -- lecture 36. A bridge across the Torrent.