Student Site Report Assignments: Greece/Turkey 2013
Greece and Turkey 2013. Student Reports. Listed alphabetically by student last name.
We strongly suggest that you start with the Classical Studies Library Guide: http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=99332&sid=745363. On this site you will find basic texts for your reports. It contains a tremendous amount of useful material on all aspects of the classics. Our own Mullins Library librarian Beth Juhl created this page. She is, in fact, a classicist herself, and loves to help our Classical Studies students with their research projects (bjuhl@uark.edu). After you have perused this page and located some bibliography and have further questions, feel free to email Beth. She is the Library’s Electronic Resources librarian, and has access to many databases, too.
Greece and Turkey 2013. Student Reports. Listed alphabetically by student last name.
We strongly suggest that you start with the Classical Studies Library Guide: http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=99332&sid=745363. On this site you will find basic texts for your reports. It contains a tremendous amount of useful material on all aspects of the classics. Our own Mullins Library librarian Beth Juhl created this page. She is, in fact, a classicist herself, and loves to help our Classical Studies students with their research projects (bjuhl@uark.edu). After you have perused this page and located some bibliography and have further questions, feel free to email Beth. She is the Library’s Electronic Resources librarian, and has access to many databases, too.
Anna Bagwell
Nikos Kazantzakis; Theater of Dionysus/Lysicrates Monument.
Brianna Cole
Parthenon Sculptures; The Trojan War.
Mary Guthrie
Mycenae: Shaft Graves and Tholos tombs; Epidaurus: the Theater.
Kristin Hoover
Athens: Ancient Weddings; Eleusis: Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone.
Josh Koerner
Athens: Hephaestion; Mycenae: Walls and Palace.
Will Loder
Istanbul: Alexander Sarcophagus; Greek Civil War.
Tucker Lucas
Tiryns: Fortification and Palace; Olympia: the Games.
Tom McMahon
Rembetika music; Battle of Chaeroneia.
William Myers
Crete: Knossos; Greek Wine/Ouzo.
Lydia Osborn
Olympia: Gymnasium/Palaistra; Olive/ Olive Oil.
George B. Paulson
Battle of Salamis; the 4th Crusade
Sarah Plavcan
Justinianic Law Code; Osios Loukas Mosaics.
Mariel Royan
Epidaurus: Healing Cult of Asclepius/Abaton; Athens: Panathenaic Festival.
Mitchell Simpson
Istanbul: Basilica Cistern/Valens Aqueduct; Athens: Parthenon Marbles Controversy.
Chris Sonntag
Athens: The Plague; Delphi: Temple, Oracle and Ethylene.
Haley Wallace
Athens: Erechtheion; Troy: Heinrich Schliemann's excavations.
Don't be afraid to choose something about which you know very little. The purpose of this trip is to broaden your knowledge.
I. General Areas: Ancient
Agriculture (Mediterranean Triad, 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
II. General Areas: Post-Ancient (Medieval and Modern)
Churches
Mosaics
Catholic/Orthodox Christian Relations
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.
Urbanism (planning, problems)
III. Possible Specific Report Topics: Ancient
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)
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 AND ABATON (SLEEPING/HEALING HALL)
EPIDAURUS: THOLOS AND TEMPLE OF ASCLEPIUS
MYCENAEAN PALACE AT TIRYNS (ARGOLID)
KNOSSOS: MINOAN PALACE (CRETE)
ATHENIAN SEA POWER
ANCIENT GREEK COINAGE
THE ALEXANDER SARCOPHAGUS (IN ISTANBUL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM)
IV. Possible Specific Report Topics: Post-Ancient (late Roman, Medieval, Byzantine, and Modern)
JEWS OF GREECE
SEIGE OF CANDIA (IRAKLEION, CRETE) 1669
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
GREECE: ECONOMIC CRISIS
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/TURKISH RELATIONS: THE CYPRUS PROBLEM
"GREEK FIRE": BYZANTINE MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
LATE ROMAN MOSAICS
LAW CODE OF JUSTINIAN: FOUNDATION OF WESTERN LEGAL SYSTEMS
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
GREECE: FROM EMIGRANTS TO IMMIGRANTS
MUSIC: REMBETIKA (BLUES OF GREECE)
TOURISM IN GREECE AND/OR TURKEY
GREEK WINE PRODUCTION
GREEK OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: LIFE AND WORKS
OSIOS LOUKAS: BYZANTINE MONASTERY MOSAICS
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN
V. Report Topics from the 2011 UA Greece-Turkey Study Tour
Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Rembetika Music
Theater of Dionysos & Lysicrates Monument (Athens).
Epidaurus Theater
Hippodrome of Constantinople (chariot racing).
Parthenon Sculptures.
Eleusis Mysteries
Ottoman Harem (Topkapi Palace, Istanbul).
Jews of Greece/Turkey
The Great Schism (1054).
Olive Oil Production
Stoa of Attalos (Athens Agora).
Blue Mosque.
Greek Civil War (1946-1949).
4th Crusade (1204)
Attic Border Forts (Eleutherae & Aegosthena).
Panathanaia Festival (Athens)
Tiryns (Mycenaean Palace/Citadel).
Greek Minority in Istanbul
Antikythera Mechanism (Athens National Museum).
Knossos Palace
Justinian Law Code (6th century).
Mycenae Lion Gate and Palace
Battle of Salamis (480 BCE).
Olympic Games
Greece/Turkey: Exchange of Populations (1923).
Healing Cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus
Greek Armor (Dedications in Olympia Museum).
Oracle and Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Tower of the Winds (Athens).
Shabbatai Tzvi (17th cent. False Messiah)
Erechtheion (Athens).
Weddings in Ancient Athens
Temple of Hephaestus and Athena (Athens).
Basilica Cistern/Aqueduct of Valens (Istanbul)
Metro Construction in Athens.