Student Site Report Assignments
Each student will give two reports on site in Greece during our program. The list of students and their reports will be on this page. Students will choose topics that relate to their interests. Professors will help students with their topic choices and bibliography.
Don't be afraid to choose something about which you know very little. The purpose of this trip is to broaden your knowledge.
Students will work with the professors during the first pre-trip meetings to choose their report topics. The information below will give you an idea of what to think about. Below are general and specific areas to consider. We will help you to narrow down your choices, based on your interests. Look at the general and specific areas (below) and let us know at the meeting (or by email) what interests you and what preferences you have. We look forward to working with you.
Student Site Report Assignments.
University of Arkansas. Classics in Greece. 2019.
Professors Daniel Levine & George Paulson
Revveka Calleja: Stoa of Attalos (Athens), The Mythology of Crete
Photeini Campbell: Delphi Apollo Temple/Oracle, The Jews of Greece
Sara Clarke: Olympic Games: History and Events, The Plague at Athens
Kalliopi Eastland: Ancient Greek Coinage, WWII German Occupation of Crete
Vangelis Franklin: Gortyn Law Code (Crete), The Battle of Salamis
Carolina Goering: The Mythology of Athens, Healing Oracle of Amphiaraios at Oropos
Thomas Guthrie: Antikythira Mechanism, Diolkos/Corinth Canal
Maria Herbert: Epidaurus Healing Sanctuary of Asclepius, The Battle of Crete
Tassos Paulsen: The Athenian Democracy, The Refugee Crisis
Georgia Powell: Asia Minor Catastrophe: Exchange of Populations (1922), The Mythology of Olympia
Amalia Snyder: The Mosaics of Osios Loukas Monastery, The Eleusinian Mysteries
Aleka St. John: The Tower of the Winds (Athens), Mycenae: Tholoi & Grave Circle A
Anna Wrzesinsky: Athenian Burial Customs (Kerameikos Cemetery), Heinrich Schliemann: “Father of Archaeology”?
I. General Areas: Ancient
Archaeology (including modern restoration projects and international controversies over cultural patrimony)
Architecture (temples, fortifications, churches)
Athletics
Warfare (land and sea)
Burial/Funerary Customs/Cemeteries
Democracy
Economics
Inscriptions
Language
Law
Medicine
Art (Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, Mosaic, Fresco)
Mythology
Numismatics (coins)
Oracles (ancient prophetic sanctuaries, e.g.)
Palaces (Minoan/Mycenaean; Crete and Mycenae)
Religion
Seafaring
Technology
Theater/Drama
II. General Areas: Post-Ancient (Medieval and Modern)
BYZANTINE (MEDIEVAL) AND PRE-MODERN GREECE:
Religion
Byzantine Art & Architecture
MODERN GREECE:
Foreign Policy/Relations/Diplomacy
Wars, Warfare, and Battles
Economy
Culture (Music & Literature)
III. Possible Specific Report Topics: Ancient
Parthenon Sculpture: Metopes and Pediments
Parthenon Architecture
Erechtheion (Athens Acropolis)
Propylaia (Athens Acropolis)
Temple of Hephaistos (Athens Agora)
Stoa of Attalos (Athens Agora)
Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Athens Agora)
The Panathenaic Festival and Games (Athens)
Hadrian and Athens: The Philhellenic Emperor
Ancient Greek Astronomical Technology: The Antikythera Mechanism (Athens)
Theater of Dionysos (Athens)
Choregic Monument of Lysicrates: Theater Victory Memorial (Athens)
Eleusis: Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone
Battle of Salamis (480 BCE)
Battle of Chaironeia (338 BCE)
Attic Border Forts (Aegosthena, Eleutherae)
Delphi: Temple of Apollo and Oracle
Delphi: Treasuries and their sculpture (Athenian, Siphnian)
Olympia: Olympic Games
Olympia: Temple of Hera and altar (where the modern Olympic torch is lit)
Olympia: Temple of Zeus (Architecture)
Olympia: Temple of Zeus (Sculpture)
Mycenae: Lion Gate, Fortifications, Palace
Mycenae: Tholos Tombs (Treasury of Atreus) and Grave Circle A
Epidaurus: Theater
Epidaurus: Healing Cult of Asclepius
Epidaurus: Tholos and Temple of Asclepius
Tiryns: Mycenaean Palace
Knossos: Minoan Palace (Crete)
Ancient Greek Coinage
Phaistos: Minoan Palace (Crete)
Gortyna Law Code (Crete)
Cycladic Civilization (Early Civilization of the islands of the Aegean).
Oil Lamps: Use, Evolution, Decoration
Tower of the Winds (Athens)
Ancient Greek Wedding Customs and Art
The Areopagus of Athens
St. Paul in Greece
Military Fortresses in Greece
Herodes Atticus: Fantastic Philanthropist (Rich Benefactor)
IV. Possible Specific Report Topics: Post-Ancient (late Roman, Medieval, Byzantine, and Modern)
The Athens Metro
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
The Great Schism (1054): Eastern Orthodox—Roman Catholic Relations
The Byzantine Mosaics of Hosios Loukas Monastery
The Fourth Crusade (1204): Crusaders and the Byzantine Empire
Venetian Fortifications (Rethymno or Nauplion)
The Philhellenes and the Greek War of Independence (1821)
The Return of the Parthenon (“Elgin”) Marbles
Greece and Turkey: The Asia Minor Catastrophe and Exchange of Minority Populations (1922-23)
Greece and Turkey: The Cyprus Question
World War II: Greece Under German Occupation (1941-1944)
World War II: The Holocaust in Greece
World War II: The Battle of Crete
The Greek Civil War (1944-1949)
What’s in a Name? National Identity and the Macedonia Question
The Jews of Greece
The Adoption of the Euro and the Greek Economic Crisis
Illegal Immigration in Greece: Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Growth of Athens: From Ancient to Modern.
The Blues of Greece: Rembetika Music
Battle of Lepanto (1571) at Naupaktos
The Corinth Canal and Diolkos
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor: Modern Philhellene, WWII Hero, and Traveler.
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When beginning to research your reports, 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.