Student Site Report Assignments

Each student will give one site report 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. 

1.        Alexander Epidaurus Healing Cult of Asclepius

2.        Atkins Delphi. Temple of Apollo/Oracle

3.        Black Greek Civil War

4.        Bruce Asia Minor Catastrophe

5.        Clark Olympia. Zeus Temple/Sculpture

6.        Clinton Eleusis

7.        Doyle Tower of the Winds

8.        Dwyer Panathenaic Festival

9.        Eubanks Mythology of Crete

10.  Griffiths Epidaurus Theater

11.  Merrick Battle of Chaironeia

12.  Myers Antikythera Mechanism

13.  Oltman Temple of Hephaistos and Athena (Agora)

14.  Perry Olympia. Temple of Hera

15.  Richey Trial of Socrates

16.  Schwulst Olympic Games

17.  Simpson Gortyna Law Code

18.  Stucky Plague at Athens

19.  Wilkin Burial Customs (in Patras Museum)

Dates:

March 20 By this date, students will have finalized their site report topics and have them approved by the instructors.

April 10 Bring a list of 3 sources and 5 important facts about your topic with you to our third pre-trip meeting (10 April 2025).

April 17.  Bring a first DRAFT of you site-report handout. [Students will bring 21 copies of their final (approved) handouts to distribute in Greece.]

April 24 Bring final draft of the site report.

Students will work with the professors during the 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 by the second meeting (in writing or by email) what interests you and what preferences you have.  We look forward to working with you. Think about the following four options..

1) I don't have a preference. Please assign me report topics that you think are

appropriate.

2) I am interested in one or more of the "General Areas" [Ancient and/or Post-Ancient] listed on the "Student Site Report Assignments" page (see below). Please list the general areas that interest you.

3) I would like report topics that I can relate to my major(s) and/or minor(s). Please list your major(s) and minor(s).

4) I am interested in some of the "Possible Specific Report Topics" (Ancient or Post-Ancient, below). List as many as you like.

Student Site Report Assignments.

University of Arkansas. Classics in Greece. 2025.

Professors Daniel Levine & George Paulson

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.