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Course Description: This course will focus on the development of the Periclean building program in Attica in the fifth century BC. The development of the five main buildings usually attributed to Pericles will be seen in its context with the political development of the Athenian constitution and religious developments in the city of Athens. Our goal is to evaluate the archaeological evidence in light of the literary sources which describe the development of the building program. How closely does the archaeological evidence match the historical outline from literary sources? Was there, in fact, a "program" and how are we using that term? Seminar participants will be assigned both short and long oral reports and auditors will be required to do at least one short report. A full bibliography based on the long oral reports will be due at the end of the term, to be posted on the web next to each building below in the course calendar.  |
Note: reading assignments are to be done prior to each class. List of reserved readings in the Classics Library.
Jan. 7: Introduction to course. Assign oral reports.
Jan. 14: Review of Athenian history and the mechanics of
the Athenian Democracy. Pericles the man: what do the literary
sources say about him? How much do we really know?
Reading:
Plutarch's Life of Pericles (esp.
13.4-10);
Plutarch's Life
of
Cimon; Aristotle
The
Athenian Constitution (Ath. Pol.) 25-29; OCD s.v. Pericles; J. K.
Davies, Athenian Propertied Families s.v. 11811 Perikles
Xanthippos Cholargou.
Jan. 21: Kimonian Athens: the Stoa Poikele, the Tholos
and/or Prytaneion, the Kimonian Long Walls.
Read:
Plut.
Cim. 7,
13;
Plut.
Per. 9;
Paus.
I.15.1-3.
K. Glowacki's essay on topography in his
City
of Athens website at the University of Indiana.
E. Vanderpool, "Tholos and Prytanikon," Hesperia 4 (1935)
470-475.
S. G. Miller, The Prytaneion (Berkeley 1978) 38, 60-65.
T. L. Shear in The History and Archaeology of the Athenian
Democracy (Athens1994) 241.
JACT 196-208.
Jan. 28: The Political agenda of Pericles, and opposition. Creation of a Welfare State. Ephialtes' reforms. Short reports on Thucydides son of Milesias, Ephialtes. The Reforms of Ephialtes and the Rise of Pericles.
Read:
Thucydides
II.59-65;
II.34-46; review Plut. Per.
esp.
9 and
13.10;
Ath. Pol. 23.1, 25.1-2, 57.3, 58-59 on what the archons do, 60.2 on
the powers of the Areopagus Secondary sources:
A. Andrewes, "The Opposition to Perikles," JHS 98 (1978)
1-8.
C. Hignett, A History of the Athenian Constitution, Oxford
1952, 193-213.
D. Kagan, "Periclean Athens: Was it Democratic?" in Problems in
Ancient History, 271-307.
J. D. Lewis, "Isegoria at Athens: When did it Begin?" Historia
20 (1971) 129-140.
R. Sealey, "Ephialtes," CP 59 (1964) 11-22.
R. K. Sinclair, Democracy and Participation in Classsical
Athens 106-135.
M. H. Hanson, Was Athens a Democracy? Copenhagen 1989.
Athens in the mid-5th century: Discussion of the Periclean Building Program. Which monuments do you include in it, and why? Are any located in the Athenian Agora? What did Pericles intend by building these particular structures? How did the building program fit into a legislative agenda? See six photographs of the inside of the Parthenon.
Read:
Meiggs and Andrewes, Sources for Greek History (Oxford 1951)
351-353 for testimonia.
Pausanias I.22.4-I.28.4.
J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece pp. 64-110.
Boardman, Archaic Period, pp. 72-76, 82-87, 88-89
Boardman, Classical Period, pp. 90-174
Coulton, Architects, pp. 97-123
Dinsmoor, Architecture, pp. 147-151, 159-183,185-195, 197-205, 206-210
Lawrence, Greek Architecture, pp. 186-231
Winter, "Doric Design III", AJA 84 (1980): 399-416
Akropolis Restoration: the CCAM Interventions
Ashmole, Architect and Sculptor, pp. 90-146
Boardman, Classical Period, pp. 175-240
Boardman, Greek Art and Architecture, browse
Boardman, Parthenon and Its Sculptures, browse
Boersma, J. Athenian Building Policy from 561/0-405/4 BC 1970.
Bundgaard, Mnesikles, browse
Bundgaard, Athenian Akropolis, browse
Bundgaard, Parthenon and Mycenaean City, browse
Camp, Athenian Agora, browse
Shear, T. Leslie, Studies in the Periklean Bulding Program, Princeton Diss. 1966.
Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary, relevant entries.
Wycherly, Stones of Athens, pp. 27-154See also:
Seminar Reports:
Feb. 11: The Propylaia.
Feb. 18: The Periklean Odeion.
Feb. 25: The Telesterion at Eleusis.
Mar. 4: The Long Walls.
Mar. 11: The Parthenon.
Mar. 18: Exam week. Bibliographies due at 12:00pm noon on disk, to be made into web pages for this site, with your name as author. Extensions negotiated only under dire necessity and extreme circumstances.
This syllabus is subject to change.
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