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General Art & Archaeology

Required Readings (the monuments and artifacts represented in the slide identification portion of the M.A. comprehensive exam will be those illustrated in these texts):

● Pedley, J. G., Greek Art and Archaeology (2007)
● Whitley, J. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (2001)
● Pollitt, J. J. Art in the Hellenistic Age (1986)
● Neer, R. Greek Art & Archaeology (2011)
● Barringer, J. 2015. The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Students should demonstrate advanced knowledge and critical reading by taking SIX comprehensive exams in their final semester.

Students may also elect to take all SIX exams based on the standard Greek and Roman Art & Archaeology reading lists. You must choose at least ONE from the Roman list and at least THREE from the Greek list.

Alternatively, FOUR of the six must be topics from the standard Greek and Roman reading lists (at least ONE from the Roman and not more than THREE) and up to TWO can be open topics

Open topics will ordinarily be based on courses you’ve taken on aspects of Mediterranean archaeology, e.g., Numismatics, Landscape Archaeology, or Mortuary Archaeology. If you wish to write an exam on an open topic, the subject and reading list for the M.A. exam will be made in consultation with an appropriate faculty member and submitted to the ACGS for approval by the tenth week of the semester before the student plans to take their written exams.

I. Greek Architecture

• Lawrence, A. W. and R.A. Tomlinson. 1996. Greek Architecture (5th edition)
• Barletta, B.A. 2001. The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders
• Nevett, L. 1999. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World
• Camp, J. The Athenian Agora
• Cahill, N.D. 2002. Household and City Organization at Olynthus
• Cerchiai, L., L. Jannelli, and F. Longo. 2004. The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
• Mazarkis-Ainian, A. 1997. From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples. Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100-700 BC)
• Miles, M. (ed.) 2016. A Companion to Greek Architecture
• Spawforth, A. 2006. The Complete Greek Temples
• Hurwit, J. M. 2004. The Acropolis in the Age of Perikles

II. Greek Sculpture

• Stewart, A. 1990. Greek Sculpture: An Exploration
• Osborne, R. 1998. Archaic and Classical Greek Art
• Palagia, O. (ed.) 2008. Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods
• Neer, R. 2007. “Delphi, Olympia and the Art of Politics” in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece: 225-264
• Neer, R. 2011. The Emergence of Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
• Boardman, J. 2012. Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period
• Boardman, J. 2005. Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period
• Boardman, J. 1995. Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period
• Smith, R.R.R. 2014. Hellenistic Sculpture
• Dillon, S. 2012. Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture
• Jenkins, I. 2006. Greek Architecture and its Sculpture

III. Greek Painting and Pottery

• Neer, R. 2002. Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting (2002)
• Stansbury-O’Donnell, M. 1999. Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greece Art (1999)
• Boardman, J. 1988. Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th c. BC (1998)
• Boardman, J. 2010. Athenian Red-Figure Vases: The Archaic Period (2010)
• Boardman, J. 1989. Athenian Red-Figure Vases: The Classical Period (1989)
• Boardman, J. 2014. Athenian Black-Figure Vases (2014)
• Trendall, A.D. 1989. Red-Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily (1989)
• Bundrick, S. 2019. “Contexts, Consumption, and Attic Vases in Etruria,” in Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery: 51-93
• Langdon, S. 2008. Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece: 1000-700 BC
• Plantzos, D. 2018. The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece

IV. Aegean Bronze Age

• Cline, Eric H. (editor) 2010. The Oxford handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000- 1000 BC). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Shelmerdine, Cynthia W. (editor) 2008. The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 2006. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. London: Routledge. [Chapters 1-3]
• Cullen, Tracey. (editor) 2001. Aegean prehistory: a review. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America.
• Broodbank, Cyprian. 2000. An island archaeology of the early Cyclades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Preziosi, Donald, and Louise Hitchcock. 1999. Aegean art and architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Driessen, J., I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur. 2002. Monuments of Minos: rethinking the Minoan Palaces; proceedings of the international workshop "Crete of the hundred palaces?" held at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 14-15 December 2001
• Pullen, D. J. 2010. (ed.) Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007
• Gorogianni, E., P. Pavúk, and L. Girella. (eds). 2016. Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean
• J.-C. Poursat. 2008-2014. L’art égéen. Paris: Éditions Picard. [English translation in 2022 by Carl Knappett, published by Cambridge University Press]

V. Ancient Near East

• Bahrani, Z. 2017. The Art of Mesopotamia. Thames and Hudson.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2013. Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia. Cambridge.
• Kuhrt, A. 1995. The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 B.C. 2 Vols. Routledge. (you do not need to read the chapters on Egypt)
• Pollock, S. 1999. Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was. Cambridge.
• Potts, D. ed. 2012. A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East. Wiley. (Chs. 28, 29, 34, 37, 38, 45, 50)
• Roaf, M. 1990. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Oxfordshire
• Root, M. C. 1979. The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art. Brill.
• Snell, D. 1997. Life in the Ancient Near East. Yale University Press.
• van de Mieroop, M. ed. 2016. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC. Blackwell.

VI. Hellenistic Archaeology

• Shipley, G. 2000. The Greek World after Alexander 323-30 BC
• Pollitt, J. J. 1986. Art in the Hellenistic Age
• Burn, L. 2005. Hellenistic Art: From Alexander to Augustus
• Smith, R. R. R. 2009. Hellenistic Sculpture
• Dunbabin, K. 1999. Mosaics in the Greek and Roman World [Ch. 1-4]
• Lawrence, A. and R. Tomlinson. 1996. Greek Architecture (5th edition) [Ch. 19, 21, 23]
• Westgate, R.C. 2000. "Space and decoration in Hellenistic houses" ABSA 95: 391-426
• Stewart, A. 2014. Art in the Hellenistic World
• Ma, J. 2013. Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
• Thonemann, P. 2016. The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources
• Kosmin, P. 2014. The Land of the Elephant Kings [Ch. 7, 8]