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Visit the APKAS website at: http://kythera.osu.edu. HISTORY 808.01 Seminar in Ancient History The Island of Kythera through the Ages The Ohio State University Autumn Quarter 2002 Instructor: Professor Timothy E. Gregory, 365 Dulles Hall, telephone 292-1949 (office), 292-2674 (to leave a message), 291-4015 (home). E-mail: gregory.4@osu.edu. Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Wednesday 3:00-4:00, and by appointment at other times (best scheduled through e-mail: gregory.4@osu.edu). Class Web Site: http://isthmia.ohio-state.edu/teg/hist80801 Description: This course is a two-quarter seminar, whose primary goal is the promotion of student research. It will focus geographically on a diachronic study of the island of Kythera, which lies midway between the eastern and the western Mediterranean. It was occupied or heavily influenced by Minoans, Mycenaeans, Spartans, Athenians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Venetians, Ottomans, and British. The course encourages students to focus on any time period, from prehistory to the present and to devise a research project making use of archaeological, literary, or documentary sources. The first quarter will provide a diachronic examination of the history of Kythera and examine the evidence and research projects appropriate for student research. Each week we will read selected primary and secondary sources and each student will be expected to select a specific problem and prepare an abstract for research that will be carried out next quarter. One general focus of research is to investigate how “Island History/Island Archaeology” (neseology,” the study of islands as islands) is an appropriate framework for research on Kythera. For some suggested topics, see the appendix at the end of the syllabus. Prerequisites: The course is open only to graduate students. Students in fields other than ancient are welcome to take part, and special care will be taken to tailor reading assignments to works that will help in preparation for general examinations. Special Features: An attempt will be made to integrate a regular series of “brown-bag” presentations into the seminar. Thus, it may be that some meetings will be scheduled outside the regular class meeting time. In addition, some readings will certainly be added to the list below, as time goes by. Several members of the seminar are not resident in Columbus and they will be following the seminar through the Internet. All assignments, and many of the course resources, are available on the class website. Required Readings: There are no books to purchase for this course. Most books and articles will be on reserve in the Reserve Room of the Main Library, although some readings may be available online or through photocopying. Weekly Schedule: September 30 Introduction: Overview of the history and significance of Kythera and an examination of possible research Introduction to the Geography and History of Kythera, from APKAS SUAMS volume, section 2† Koksma, Tale October 7 Island History/Archaeology Broodbank, Island Archaeologies* Rainbird, Islands (and accompanying discussion) Cherry, Davis, Mantzourani, Keos, 3-12 Horden and Purcell, Corrupting Sea, 1-170; 224-40 Shaw, Challenging Braudel October 14 Kythera in Antiquity Ancient Texts on Kythera† Waterhouse and Hope Simpson Coldstream and Huxley* Sakellarakis, Minoan Influence Broodbank, Preliminary Report* October 21 Kythera in the Middle Ages Life of Osios Theodoros of Kythera Herrin, Byzantine Kythera Paliochora I & II Chatzidakis and Bitha, Toichografies* Tsougarakis, Crete, 19-90 October 28 Kythera in the Early Modern Period Leontsinis, The Island of Kythera Maltezou, Historical Geography Kythera Census Records* November 4 Kythera in Modern Times November 11 Student Reports on Projected Research November 18 Student Reports on Projected Research November 25 Student Reports on Projected Research December 2 Student Reports on Projected Research † means that this reading is available on the class website * means that you need not read every page of this book/article, but that you should understand what the work covers and know the author’s thesis/point of view. Student Reports: During the first few weeks of the seminar (no later than November 4), students should select a basic research topic (on the history of Kythera from prehistory to the present). In the last few weeks of the course, students will make an oral presentation to the seminar, outlining this research project, the sources and bibliography available, and the approach planned for the research. In the week before the presentation, students should suggest some basic reading for other members of the seminar; these readings should be made available, ideally through the class website. The oral presentation should take no more than 30 minutes and drafts, etc., should be published on the course website. Bibliographic References Broodbank, Island Archaeology C. Broodbank, An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades. Cambridge, 2000. DF221.C93B762000 Broodbank, Preliminary Report C. Broodbank, Kythera Survey: Preliminary Report on the 1998 Season. BSA 94 (1999) 191-214. Chatzidakis and Bitha, Toichografies M. Chatzidakis and I. Bitha, Ευρετήριο Βυζαντινών Τοιχογραφίων Ελλάδος 1. Κύθηρα. Athens 1997. Cherry, Davis, Mantzourani, Keos J.F. Cherry, J.L. Davis, and E. Mantzourani, Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History. Northern Keos in the Cucladic Islands from Earliest Settlement until Modern Times. Monumenta Archaeologica 16. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology University of California, Los Angeles 1991. Coldstream and Huxley, Kythera J.N. Coldstream and G.L. Huxley, Kythera: Excavations and Studies conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British School at Athens. London 1972. DF221.K5K961973 Herrin, Byzantine Kythera J. Herrin, Byzantine Kythera, in Coldstream and Huxley, Kythera, 41-51. Horden and Purcell, Corrupting Sea Perigrene Hordon and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea. A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford 2000. Koksma, Tale George Koksma, A Tale of Paliochoa, Castro Valley, CA 2000. Leontsinis, The Island of Kythera G.N. Leontsinis, The Island of Kythera: A social history (1700-1863). Athens 1987. Life of Osios Theodoros N. Oikonomidis, Ο βίος του Αγίου Θεοδώρου Κυθήρων, Proceedings of the Third Panionian Congress. Argostoli, 1967, 264-91 Maltezou, Historical Geography Ch. Maltezou, A Contribution to the Historical Geography of the Island of Kythira during the Venetian Occupation, in Charanis Studies. Essays in Honor of Peter Charanis, A. E. Laiou-Thomadakis (ed.), New Brunswick, 1980, 161-75. Paliochora I G.E. Ince, Th. Koukoulis, David Smyth, Paliochora: Survey of a Byzantine City on the Island of Kythera. Preliminary Report, BSA 82 (1987) 95-106. LF32459B8 Paliochora II G.E. Ince, Th. Koukoulis, A.N. Ballantyne, D. Smyth, Paliochora: Survey of a Byzantine City on the Island of Kythera. Second Report, BSA 84 (1989) 407-16 . Rainbird, Islands Paul Rainbird, Islands out of time: towards a critique of island archaeology, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 11(1999). DE1J68 Sakellarakis, Minoan Influence I. Sakellarakis, Minoan Religious Influence in the Aegean: the Case of Kythera, BSA 91 (1996) 81-99. Shaw, Challenging Braudel Brent Shaw, Challenging Braudel: a new vision of the Mediterranean, JRA 14 (2001) 419-453 Tsougarakis Crete Dimitris Tsougarakis, Byzantine Crete from the 5th Century to the Venetian Conquest. Athens: St. D. Basilopoulos 1988 (ISBN 960-7100-04-2) Waterhouse and Hope Simpson Waterhouse, Helen, and R. Hope Simpson, “Prehistoric Laconia: Part II,” in ABSA 56 (1961), 148-160. Appendix Some Suggested Research Topics Please note that these are just some suggestions to help you get going on selecting a topic. This list is not—in any way—to be exhaustive and you are strongly encouraged to come up with topics of your own. Virtually all the topics listed are too broad and will have to be broken down into more manageable parts. In addition, many of these topics require expertise and/or background in some research techniques (languages, archival experience, etc.) and you should be sure to select a topic that is within your experience and abilities. The topics here are arranged primarily in categories determined by period, but you are encouraged to develop topics that cross over these boundaries. Research on some of these topics may be considered for publication in the work of the Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey. Island Histories Kythera as a case study for island history: is this a good theoretical model? Island history and island biology: is there a connection? Winds, currents, and sea-lanes and their impact on Kytherian settlement and History The relationship between piracy and settlement across time in Kythera Religion and Image Kytherian Aphrodite: origins and cult The idea of Kytherian Aphrodite (Ourania Aphrodite) as a symbol for “spiritual” love Cult of the Virgin (especially Myrtidiotissa) in Kythera Cult of the Virgin as “continuity” with Aphrodite Ourania in Kythera Helen of Troy and Paris in Kythera Images of Kythera in ancient (or medieval or modern) literature The ideal of Kythera as utopia Kythera in modern Greek mass media Prehistory The earliest human occupants of Kythera (Early Helladic period) Minoan settlement in northern Kythera Evidence for prehistoric settlement in the area north of Karavas in Kythera Evidence of Mycenaean activity in northern Kythera Classical Period Spartan interests and influences on Kythera The role of Kythera in the Peloponnesian War The role of Kythera in the Hellenistic period Kythera under Roman rule Kythera in Late Antiquity Medieval Period Osios Theodoros: his role and importance Church architecture in medieval Kythera Kythera in the naval program of Byzantium The dating of Byzantine frescoes on Kythera: a reevaluation Historical prosopography of medieval Kythera (cf. Tsougarakis, Crete, Appendix II) Venetian Period (1537-1797) Venetian administration of Kythera Venice, the Venieri, and the Byzantine nobility Venetian administrators Economic conditions in Kythera during the Venetian period Venetian fortification in Kythera (principles and practicalities) Religious life in Kythera under the Venetians Catholics and Orthodox in Venetian Kythera A prosopography of notable people in Kytherian society in the Venetian period Onomastics of Venetian Kythera The history of an individual village in northern Kythera during the Venetian period Transitional Period (Ottomans, Russian, French: 1787-1798) French plans for social and political institutions in “free” Kythera The Russo-Turkish occupation of Kythera British Period (1798-1864) British military planning for Kythera in the 19th century British economic policy for Kythera British public works in Kythera (roads, bridges, schools) Construction of the Kythera lighthouse Reports of individual British governors of Kythera Trade in and out of Kythera during the British period Education in Kythera in the 19th century Patterns and themes in Kytherian writing in the 19th century Kytherian participation in/attitudes toward the Greek War of Independence The lives of British soldiers/administrators and their families in Kythera Kythera in the accounts of western travelers Modern Period (after 1864) Kythera/Kytherians in the First World War Kythera/Kytherians in the Second World War Kytherian politics in the framework of the developing Greek nation Attempts at industrialization in Kythera The building of harbors Migration from Kythera to America (or Australia or elsewhere) Migration from Kythera to a particular place in America or Australia The impact of “reverse” migration on Kythera The impact of entrance into the European Union on Kythera Permission to utilise material from both Ohio State, and Sydney University, very kindly given by Professor Timothy E. Gregory.
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