Student Site Report Assignments Greece/Turkey 2011
NEW: REPORT TOPIC ASSIGNMENTS BELOW.
REPORT ASSIGNMENTS (Please check with professors if you want to change your topic)
Alex: Law Code of Gortyna (Crete); Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Allison: Rembetika Music; Theater of Dionysos & Lysicrates Monument (Athens).
Anna: Epidaurus Theater; Hippodrome of Constantinople (chariot racing).
Austin L.: Varangians in Byzantium; Parthenon Sculptures.
Brittani: Eleusis Mysteries; Ottoman Harem (Topkapi Palace, Istanbul).
Dylan: Jews of Greece/Turkey; The Great Schism (1054).
Elizabeth: Olive Oil Production; Stoa of Attalos (Athens Agora).
Hannah: Urban Planning Istanbul (Mega City); Blue Mosque.
James: Lepanto Naval Battle (1571); Greek Civil War (1946-1949).
Joshua: 4th Crusade (1204); Attic Border Forts (Eleutherae & Aegosthena).
Kerby: Panathanaia Festival (Athens), Tiryns (Mycenaean Palace/Citadel).
Kristin: Greek Minority in Istanbul; Antikythera Mechanism (Athens National Museum).
Lindsey: Knossos Palace; Justinian Law Code (6th century).
Loukas: Mycenae Lion Gate and Palace; Battle of Salamis (480 BCE).
Mary: Olympic Games; Greece/Turkey Exchange of Populations (1923).
Nathanael: Healing Cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus; Greek Armor (Dedications in Olympia Museum).
Robin: Oracle and Temple of Apollo at Delphi; Tower of the Winds (Athens).
Sarah: Shabbatai Tzvi (17th cent. False Messiah); Erechtheion (Athens).
Tori: Weddings in Ancient Athens; Temple of Hephaestus and Athena (Athens).
Tyler: Basilica Cistern/Aqueduct of Valens (Istanbul); Metro Construction in Athens.
Please note that your dates may change, depending on circumstances. We appreciate your flexibility and patience.
General Areas for Report Topic Choices
Please choose as many areas from the list below as you like, so we can assign your report topics according to your interests.
These are broad areas of research possibilities to help guide us in assigning site report topics. Note that there are both “Ancient” and “Modern” topics. They are listed alphabetically.
Please Note: If you have specific preferences about what you want to study, please let us know. Don't be afraid to choose something about which you know very little. The purpose of this trip is to broaden your knowledge.
Please rank your top five choices, and feel free to include as much accompanying detail as you like, including (if you like) why you are interested in this area --
Possible Ancient areas of interest.
Agriculture (viticulture, olives, grains, fruits/vegetables)
Archaeology (including modern restoration projects and international controversies over cultural patrimony)
Architecture (temples, fortifications, churches, mosques)
Athletics (ancient and Medieval)
Battles (land and sea)
Burial/Funerary Customs/Cemeteries
Democracy
Economics
Education
Engineering, including Hydraulic Engineering (aqueducts, cisterns, et al.)
Inscriptions
Language
Law
Literature (epic, tragedy, lyric poetry, history, comedy)
Medicine
Mosaics
Music
Mythology
Numismatics (coins)
Oracles (ancient prophetic sanctuaries, e.g.)
Painting (vases, wall paintings)
Palaces (Minoan/Mycenaean; Crete and Mycenae)
Religion (ancient and modern)
Religious Festivals
Seafaring
Sculpture
Sexuality
Slavery
Theater/Drama
Warfare
Wine Production
Possible Modern areas of interest.
Churches
Demographic Change
Engineering (including Metro construction in Athens and Istanbul)
Greece/Turkey Relations (religion, history, politics, literature, culture, music, food)
Modern Economic Situation
Modern Ethnic Controversies
Modern Greece (religion, history, politics, literature, culture, music, food)
Modern Turkey (religion, history, politics, literature, culture, music, food)
Mosques
Synagogues
Tourism
United States Foreign Policy and Modern Greek and Turkish Relations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
Urban planning
SOME REPORT TOPICS YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER.
1. Possible Ancient Site Reports
PARTHENON ARCHITECTURE (ATHENS ACROPOLIS)
PARTHENON SCULPTURE: METOPES AND PEDIMENTS (NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM)
ERECHTHEION (ATHENS ACROPOLIS)
PROPYLAIA (ATHENS ACROPOLIS)
TEMPLE OF HEPHAISTOS (ATHENS AGORA)
STOA OF ATTALOS (ATHENS AGORA)
THE PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL AND GAMES (ATHENS)
ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMICAL TECHNOLOGY: THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM (ATHENS)
PARTHENON MARBLES (ELGIN MARBLES)
THEATER OF DIONYSOS (ATHENS ACROPOLIS)
CHOREGIC MONUMENT OF LYSICRATES (ATHENS)
ELEUSIS: MYSTERIES OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE
BATTLE OF SALAMIS
ATTIC BORDER FORTS (AEGOSTHENA, ELEUTHERAE)
WOMEN IN ANCIENT ANCIENT GREECE
BATTLE OF CHAIRONEIA (338 BCE)
DELPHI: TEMPLE OF APOLLO AND ORACLE
DELPHI MUSEUM: SCULPTURE FROM TEMPLE OF APOLLO
DELPHI: TREASURIES (ATHENIAN, SIPHNIAN)
CAVE OF PAN: CORYCIAN CAVE (NEAR DELPHI)
OLYMPIA: OLYMPIC GAMES
OLYMPIA: TEMPLE OF HERA
OLYMPIA: TEMPLE OF ZEUS (ARCHITECTURE)
OLYMPIA: TEMPLE OF ZEUS (SCULPTURE)
MYCENAE: LION GATE/FORTIFICATION/PALACE
MYCENAE: THOLOS TOMB (OF ATREUS) AND GRAVE CIRCLE A
EPIDAURUS: THEATER
EPIDAURUS: HEALING CULT OF ASCLEPIUS
EPIDAURUS: THOLOS AND ABATON (SLEEPING/HEALING HALL)
MYCENAEAN PALACE AT TIRYNS (ARGOLID)
PHAISTOS: MINOAN PALACE (CRETE)
GORTYNA: LAW CODE INSCRIPTION (CRETE)
KNOSSOS: MINOAN PALACE (CRETE)
THE TRIREME: ATHENIAN SEA POWER
ANCIENT GREEK COINAGE
2. Possible Post-Ancient Site Reports (including late Roman, Medieval, Byzantine, and Modern)
FAUNA OF CRETE
JEWS OF GREECE
SEIGE OF CANDIA (IRAKLEION, CRETE) 1669
NAVAL BATTLE OF LEPANTO: CHRISTIANS VS. MOSLEMS (1571)
GREEK CIVIL WAR (1944-1949)
FROM THE DRACHMA TO THE EURO; AND BACK AGAIN? GREECE'S RELATION WITH THE EU AND ADOPTION OF THE EURO.
EUROPEAN PHILHELLENES AND GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE FOURTH CRUSADE (1204)
OTTOMAN IMPERIAL MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE AND USE (ISTANBUL)
THE "GREAT SCHISM" (1054): POPE VS. PATRIARCH
GREEK/TURKISH RELATIONS: 1922 EXCHANGE OF MINORITY POPULATIONS
GREEK/TURKISH RELATIONS: DIPLOMACY (1922-PRESENT)
"GREEK FIRE": BYZANTINE MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
LATE ROMAN MOSAICS
LAW CODE OF JUSTINIAN: FOUNDATION OF WESTERN LEGAL SYSTEMS
THE CYPRUS PROBLEM
ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL AQUEDUCT AND CISTERN IN ISTANBUL
BYZANTINE MOSAICS IN THE CHURCH OF THE CHORA: KARIYE CAMI (ISTANBUL)
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK: FOUNDER OF MODERN TURKEY
HIPPODROME AND CHARIOT RACING IN BYZANTINE CONSTANTINOPLE
THE GREEK MINORITY IN TURKEY
MUSIC: REMBETIKA (BLUES OF GREECE)
TOURISM IN GREECE AND TURKEY
GREEK WINE PRODUCTION
GREEK OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: LIFE AND WORKS
ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES OF GREECE
OSIOS LOUKAS: BYZANTINE MONASTERY MOSAICS
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN'S TOMB (ATHENS)