Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL AGE GREEK POTTERY KLA216 4. Semester 4 + 0 4.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals The aim of the course is to show how to look at Greek decorated vases of the Archaic and Classical Periods, and to focus on their evaluations.
Course Content The content of the course includes the technical aspects of the production and functions of decorated pottery, as well as their iconography and painters.
Learning Outcomes 1) Clay as material of production, pottery industry, production stages, running a pottery workshop, painting and decoration techniques.
2) Principal shapes and names of Greek pottery, function and context.
3) Inscriptions and graffiti on vases and pottery sherds, context and meaning.
4) Greek decorated pottery as trade commodity, value.
5) 6th and 5th BC Attic Black Figure vase painters and their works.
6) 6th - 4th BC, Attic Red Figure vase painters and their works.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction: Material – Technical aspects of the production of decorated pottery: The lecture deals with the production stages of decorated vases, as well as their painting techniques. It also focuses on debates of their value as commodity in pottery trade and their relations with metal vases. Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Talking Pots Inscriptions, monograms and stamps on pottery: The aim of the lecture is to give a general idea about the inscriptions and graffiti on vases and pottery sherds and to give clues on to the question of how to read these inscriptions in order to understand their real meanings and messages. Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week The lecture aims to deal with the questions of how such pre-Greek stories and myths resurfaced and were integrated into visual media in Greek art after the Dark Ages, and how Greek colonisation, which enabled Greek merchants as well as mercenaries to encounter Eastern cultures and myths, created new syntheses which formed the Greek saga Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Shapes, function and context: The lecture aims to present an introduction to shapes of the Greek vases as well as their functions according to their context. Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Proto-Attic Vases and Emergence of Athenian Pottery Workshops Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Early Attic Black Figure Painters and Groups Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Attic Black Figure Vases and Their Painters under the Archons and the Tyrans of Athens in the 6. Century BC Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Attic Red Figure Vases and their Painters in the time of Kleisthenes Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Early Attic Red Figure Vases and their pioneering painters Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Late Black Figure Vase painters and workshops and emerging Attic Red Figure Painters in the 5th century BC Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Attic Vases and Painters of the 5th and 4th centuries BC Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Themes and Iconography on Attic Black and Attic Red Figure Vases Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Attic Black Glazed Pottery of the Classical Period Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Revision Lecture
Colloquium
Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
15. Week Final Exam Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
B. A. Sparkes & Talcott, L., Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries B.C., The Athenian Agora XII, (1970).
C. H. E. Haspels, Attic Black-figure Lekythoi (1936).
C. H. E. Haspels, Eski Yunan Boyalı Keramiği (1946).
D. Williams, Greek Vases, Londra 1999.
G. M. A. Richter and M. J. Milne, Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases (1935).
G. M. A. Richter, Attic Red-figure Vases: a Survey (1958).
G. M. A. Richter, The craft of Athenian Pottery (1923).
J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases (1974).
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period (1975).
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Classical Period (1989).
J. Boardman, Early Greek vase painting: 11th-6th centuries BC, Londra 1998.
J. Boardman, Kırmızı Figürlü Atina Vazoları: Arkaik Dönem (2002).
J. Boardman, Yunan Sanatı (2005).
J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters (1956).
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (1963).
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figured Vases in American Museums (1918).
J. D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure, (rev. ed. by D. von Bothmer and Mary Moore, 1986).
M. Akurgal, Korint Seramiği, İzmir 1998.
M. B. Moore & M. Z. P. Philippides, Attic Black-figured Pottery, The Athenian Agora XXIII (1986).
P.A. Arias – M. Hirmer, A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting, New York 1962.
R. M. Cook, - P. Dupont, East Greek Pottery, London-New York, 1998.
R. M. Cook, Greek Painted Pottery, London 1960.
T. B. L. Webster, Potter and Patron in Classical Athens (1972).

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 15 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 15 5
Midterm Exam 1 2
Final Exam 1 2
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