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.