Readings in Classical Archaeology

A graduate seminar that uses the Hellenistic world, from Macedonia and Pergamon to Seleukid Iran and Greco-Bactria, roughly 330-30 BC, as a case study in how to read material culture across a sprawling, politically fragmented period. You'll work through current scholarship week by week, present analyses of articles in class, and build toward a research essay where you stake out a position on a specific problem rather than just summarizing the literature. It's structured as a tutorial, so the topic shifts with the instructor; the real training is in handling primary objects and contested interpretations at a level the undergraduate Classical Archaeology courses only gesture toward.