Ancient Ionia - AKA500090

• Title: Antická Iónie
• Guaranteed by: Institute for Classical Archeology (21-UKAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
• Key competences: 4EU+ Flagship 2
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: Marek Verčík, Dr. phil.

Annotation

Ancient Ionia
Dr. Marek Verčík - doc. PhDr. Peter Pavúk, Ph.D.

The course focuses on the archaeology of the central part of the western Anatolian littoral and the adjacent islands in the Aegean. Known in the historical time as Ionia, this region represented a border or an interaction zone between the Aegean and the Anatolia. The course explores the material culture and the habitation in the region during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, as well as their relation to the distinct local topography and geology. Despite a long research tradition in the region, a recent synopsis on Ionia is still missing. For this reason, it is the main aim of the course to familiarize the students with the local social and cultural developments by means of a novel teaching format combining archaeological, scientific and anthropological approach. In particular, the ongoing discussion on the so-called Ionian migration will be used as an example to fostering the critical thinking by means of an evaluation of the formation of scholarly narratives about the changes in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 2nd mil. BC and the beginning of the 1st mil BC.

Last update: Verčík Marek, Dr. phil. (03.12.2021)

Literature

Bibliography (introduction)

Hoepfner, W. 2010: Ionien - Brücke zum Orient. Darmstadt.

Cobet, J. (ed.) 2007: Frühes Ionien. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Mainz.

Crielaard, J. P. 2009: The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing world. In: Derks, T. – Royans, N. (eds.): Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity. Amsterdam, 37–84.

Greaves, A. M. 2010: The Land of Ionia. Society and Economy in the Archaic Period. Chichester.

Kotsonas, A. – Mokrišová, J. 2020: Mobility, Migration, andColonization. In: Lemos, I. S. – Kotsonas, A. (eds.): A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Hoboken, 217–246.

Mac Sweeney, N. 2017: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ionian Migration. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 86/3, 379–421.

Marek, C. 2017: Geschichte Kleinasiens. München

Mariaud, O. 2020: Ionia. In: Lemos, I. S. – Kotsonas, A. (eds.): A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Hoboken, 961–983.

Meriç, R. 2020: The Arzawa Lands. The Historical Geography of Izmir and its Environs during Late Bronze Age in the Light of New Archaeological Research. Tüba-Ar 27, 151–178.

Vitale, S. – McNamee, C. 2019: Ideological and Narrative Memory on Late Bronze Age Kos: from Theory to Case Study. In: Borgna, E. – Caloi, I. – Carinci, F.M. – Laffineur, R. (eds.): MNHMH/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bonze Age. Leuven, 569–578.  

Pavúk, P. 2011: Between the Aegeans and the Hittites. Western Anatolia in the 2nd Millennium BC. In: Stampolides, N. Chr. – Çiğdem, M. – Kopanias, K. (eds.): Nostoi. Indigenous culture, migration and integration in the Aegean islands and Western Anatolia during the late bronze and early iron age. Istanbul, 81–113. 

Last update: Verčík Marek, Dr. phil. (03.12.2021)

Requirements to the exam

Assessments:

In addition to active participation during our meetings, you will be required to undertake the following assignments:

• one to three times a semester, students will be asked to lead a discussion on one of the readings assigned for that week. Your response should be critical, focusing on the evaluation of arguments presented and evidence used in their support. After the section, you will produce a short written summary and analysis of these readings, incorporating observations from the discussion

Students will be evaluated based on:

-        attendance

-        review and discussion on selected papers

-        oral exam

Last update: Verčík Marek, Dr. phil. (03.12.2021)

Requisites for virtual mobility

Minimal requirements and prerequisites:

• basics of the Aegean archaeology and the Greek archaeology
• basics of the archaeological theory and models

Conditions for selection and enrolment of students:

• none

Last update: Verčík Marek, Dr. phil. (03.12.2021)

Syllabus

Lessons:

1. Introduction: topographical and geological settings, different scholar traditions
2. Background: 2nd millennium BC
3. Background: end of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
4. Panaztepe, Larissa – Phocaea – Cyme
5. Smyrna / Bayrakli
6. Bay of Izmir and the Çesme peninsula
7. Chios
8. Teos a Colophon
9. Ephesos / Apaša
10. Samos
11. Ancient Milesia
12. Discussion on the so-called Ionian migration

Last update: Verčík Marek, Dr. phil. (03.12.2021)