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U N D E R G R A D U A T E C O U R S E S (Winter Semester 2015-2016) Section of Ancient and Medieval History Ancient History (ΑΙS) ΑΙS 501 Kostas Vlassopoulos Athenian democracy (Lecture course) 5 ECTS The subject of this module is the political system of ancient Athens. It will examine Athenian democracy as a complex agglomeration of political institutions, practices and ideologies and emphasise both the system's cohesiveness as well as its major contradictions. Equally significant will be the analysis of the relationship between the Athenian political system and the social, economic and cultural framework of the period. Overall, the module will pay particular attention to the role of ordinary Athenians in the changing history of Athenian democracy. Byzantine History (VIS) VIS 400 Demetrios Kyritses From sources to synthesis: the craft of the 5 ECTS historian of the Byzantine Middle Ages (Lecture course) The course examines how the science of history locates, evaluates and processes the traces left behind by the activity of humans in the past, in order to produce a synthesis that is both logically arranged and documented. We will focus on the specific issues related to the writing of Medieval and, more particularly, Byzantine history, and we will survey the different kinds of sources, as well as historians varying methodological approaches. VIS 363 Demetrios Kyritses Poetry and history in Byzantium (Seminar) 10 ECTS In the course of the seminar we will examine Byzantine poems with historical content as sources for Byzantine history. We will attempt to locate useful historical information, cross-reference it, and place it in context. In the process, students are expected to become familiar with basic bibliography and research tools, as well as the method of basic historical research. Knowledge of classical Greek is required. Medieval History (IMCH) ΙΜCH 205 Eleni Sakellariou Society and Economy in Western Europe, 1000-1500 (Lecture course) 2 5 ECTS Signs of significant change around the year 1000. Demographic and economic growth in town and countryside from the eleventh to the late thirteenth century, and its interrelation with social change and institutional development. Increasing population pressure at the end of the thirteenth century leads to conditions of crisis

in the first decades of the fourteenth. The protracted late medieval demographic recession as a cause of structural economic and social transformation (rising living standards, economic specialization and diversification, fluctuations in the volume of trade; change in the relationship between peasants and landlords, the question of popular revolts). The role of the emerging regional or territorial states. Particular emphasis will be given to the latest historiographical debate on these issues. ΙΜCH 331 Eleni Sakellariou War, state formation and society in Europe (8th - 14th centuries) (Seminar) 10 ECTS In the medieval world, there was a close relationship between the way war was waged and the emergence of the ruling social group, the aristocracy; on the other hand, sizeable portions of society were excluded from military action: not only women and children and, at least in theory, the clergy and members of monastic communities; but also the majority of the male population, peasants and simple townsmen, who were not recruited but as auxiliaries and servants of the nobility for several centuries. Besides, next to the ideology of a military aristocracy that dominated social order in medieval Europe, there existed parallel ideological systems that rejected war and violence: Christian ethics mainly, but also, from the twelfth century, the ideological mantle of new social groups that were nurtured by economic development in the towns and cities. As the Middle Ages were waning, there were fundamental changes in the way war was waged, which reflect the radical economic, social and ideological transformation of Europe in the transition to the early modern period. Students are called to explore this changing world through their own reading and creative writing. 3

Section of Modern and Contemporary History Modern and Contemporary History (INCH) INCH 210 Efi Avdela Gender history, 19 th -20 th c. (Lecture course) 5 ECTS The course focuses on western societies since the French Revolution. It examines changes over time in the relations between men and women and in the meanings of gender difference, and their social and political consequences. Drawing on the extensive research on European and Greek gender history, the course will cover a number of themes such as work, family, citizenship but also nationalism, colonialism and social contention. 4

Section of Oriental and African Studies Turkish Studies (ΤΟΥ) TOY 119 Elias Kolovos The origins of the Ottoman state (Lecture 5 ECTS course) Instructor: Elias Kolovos Tuesday, 11:30-14:30 Room 5 Office hours (office no. 61) Monday: 9:30-11:30 Course summary Many legends were constructed in order to explain the origins of the Ottoman dynasty, which appeared from nowhere around 1300. In this lecture, we will examine the Ottoman state in its first steps during the fourteenth century, according to the historical sources. We will also examine the conflicting interpretations of modern historians concerning the nature of the early Ottoman state. Selective Bibliography Herbert Adams Gibbons, The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire: A History of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I, 1300-1403, Oxford 1916. [Βιβλιοθήκη Ινστιτούτου Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, συλλογή Victor Menage, DR481.G5, ανατύπωση] Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Les origines de l Empire Ottoman, Παρίσι 1935 [Κεντρική Bιβλιοθήκη DR486.K6313, ανατύπωση] The Origins of the Ottoman Empire, μετ., επιμ. Gary Leiser, Albany, New York 1992 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη DR 486.K6313] Paul Wittek, The Rise of the Ottoman Empire, London 1938 [Βιβλιοθήκη Ινστιτούτου Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, συλλογή Victor Menage, DR481.W5, έκδ. 1958]. Halil İnalcık The Question of the Emergence of the Ottoman State, International Journal of Turkish Studies, 2/2 (1981-82), σ. 71-80 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη, Περιοδικά]. Rudi Paul Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia, Bloomington 1983 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη DR434.L55]. Ronald C. Jennings, Some Thoughts on the Gazi-Thesis, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 76 (1986), σ. 151-161 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη, Περιοδικά]. Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State, Berkeley1995 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη, DR486.K34]. Ελληνική μετάφραση: Ανάμεσα σε δύο κόσμους: Η κατασκευή του οθωμανικού κράτους, μετ. Α. Αναστασόπουλος, Αθήνα 2008 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη DR486.K3416]. Heath W. Lowry, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, Albany, Νέα Υόρκη 2003 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη DR432.L69]. Ελληνική μετάφραση: Η φύση του πρώιμου οθωμανικού κράτους, μετ. Στ. Παπαγεωργίου, Αθήνα 2004 [Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη DR432.L6916]. Karen Barkey, Empire of difference : the Ottomans in comparative perspective / Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 [DR531 B37 2013] 5

Section of Archaeology and History of Art Classical Archaeology (KAR) KAR 120 Dimitris Bosnakis Geometric and Archaic Greece (Lecture course) 5 ECTS Course summary Lectures offer an interpretative synthesis of the Geometric and Archaic Greek culture (1100 480 BC), the formative era of the so-called Dark Age which achieved its first florescence in the Archaic period. Dealing with the art and architecture of these periods, lectures attempt to place these subjects in their historical, social, and literary contexts. With the accent on the visual world of Early Greek culture, origins of all sorts of momentous developments constitute a central point of research, for during this long period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, (epic and lyric) poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born. Literature John Boardman, Greek Sculpture. The Archaic Period (1978) [ελλην. μετάφραση: Ελληνική πλαστική: Αρχαϊκή περίοδος, (1982)]. Boardman John, The history of greek vases, 2006 [Η ιστορία των αρχαίων ελληνικών αγγείων, 1η έκδ./2006]. Boardman John, Athenian Black figure Vases, London, 1974. Boardman John, Athenian Red Figure Vases, London, 1975. P. C. Bol (επιμέλεια), Ι. Fruehgriechische Plastik, στη σειρά: Die Geschichte der antiken Bildaheuerkunst (2002). Coldstream, John N. (2003) [1979]. Geometric Greece: 900-700 BC. London. Cook R. M., Greek Painted Pottery, 1997 [Ελληνική αγγειογραφία, 3η έκδ./1994]. W. Fuchs J. Floren, Die griechische Plastik I (München 1987) J. M. Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C. (1985). Katerina Karakasi, Archaische Koren (2001). Χ. Καρούζος, Αριστόδικος (1961). W. Martini, Die archaische Plastik der Griechen (1990) Morris, Ian (1999). Archaeology As Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece. London. Richter, Gisela M.A. (1963). A Handbook of Greek Art: Third Edition Newly Revised. Phaidon Publishers Inc. G. M. A. Richter, Archaic Gravestones of Attica (New York 1961) G. M. A. Richter, Korai. Archaic Greek Maidens (London 1968) G. M. A. Richter, Kouroi 3 (1970) B. S. Rigdway, The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (Princeton 1977) Claude Rolley, La sculpture grecque I. Des origines au milieu du V e siècle(1994) [ελλην. μετάφραση: Η Ελληνική Γλυπτική Ι, από τις αρχές έως το μέσο του 5 ου αι., σε ελληνική μετάφραση από το Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου Α. Καρδαμίτσα, Αθήνα 2006]. 6

Schweitzer, Bernhard (1971). Greek Geometric Art. New York. Snodgrass, Anthony M. (2001). The Dark Age of Greece: An Archeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries BC. New York. Snodgrass, Anthony (1980). Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment. London Melbourne Toronto. FOR THE HISTORICAL PERIOD François de Polignac, La naissance de la cité grecque, Cultes, espace et societé, VIII- VII siècles (Paris 1995, [Η Γέννηση της αρχαίας ελληνικής πόλης, ΜΙΕΤ 2000]). Fritz Gschnitzer, Griechische Sozialgeschichte, von der mykenischen bis zum Ausgang der klassischen Zeit (1981] [Ιστορία της αρχαίας ελληνικής κοινωνίας, MIET 2011] H. A. Shapiro (επιμ.), The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (2007). History of Western Art (ITD) ITD 185 Eugenios Matthiopoulos Modernist Tendencies in European 5 ECTS Painting During the Period 1900-1914: Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Cubism (Lecture course) Course summary The aim of the course is to study the history of European painting during the period between 1900-1914: The lectures will focus in artistic tendencies and movements such as Art Nouveaux, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Cubism with emphasis in the special styles and aesthetic inroads which informed their formation. The analysis will include: A. The socio-political and ideological preconditions of these movements. B. The theoretical views and the various activities and exhibitions that were recorded. C. The published reviews / art criticism and public acceptance. D. The creative contribution of the principal artists of every tendency or movement. Selected bibliography N6447.A7216 2014 Giulio Carlo Argan - Achille Bonito Oliva Η μοντέρνα τέχνη, 1770-1970 / Η τέχνη στην καμπή του 21ου αιώνα, μετάφραση: Λίνα Παπαδημήτρη, Μαρία Σπυριδοπούλου πρόλογος: Νίκος Κεσσανλής, Ηράκλειο : Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2014. NX456.A7816 2007 Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve - Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Η τέχνη από το 1900 : μοντερνισμός, αντιμοντερνισμός, μεταμοντερνισμός, πρόλογος - επιμέλεια Μιλτιάδης Παπανικολάου, μετάφραση Ιουλία Τσολακίδου. Αθήνα : Επίκεντρο, 2007. N6465.A7 E8416 2000 Στέφεν Έσκριτ, Αρ Νουβώ, μετάφραση Ιωάννα Βετσοπούλου, Αθήνα : Καστανιώτης, 2001. N6494.C8 C6916 2003 Νηλ Κοξ, Κυβισμός, μετάφραση Ιωάννα Βετσοπούλου, 7

Αθήνα : Καστανιώτης, 2003. NX600.F8 T55 1984b Κάρολαϊν Τίσνταλ, Άντζελο Μποτσόλα, Φουτουρισμός, μετάφρ. Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ. Αθήνα : Υποδομή, 1984. N6868.5.E9 B373 2005 Ashley Bassie, Expressionism, Rochester, Kent : Grange Books, c2005. ITD 185 Eugenios Matthiopoulos The Influence of Post-Impressionism in 10 ECTS European Art at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century (Seminar) Course summary The aim of the Seminar is to study the ways Post-Impresionism was perceived in France and the rest of Europe during the period 1880-1905. Emphasis will be given in the stylistic and aesthetic inroads which were developed in countries other than France, i.e. the exhibitions and the theoretical essays, art criticism and the general public perception of the movement. Specifically, the discussion will focus on the contribution of the most notable post-impressionist artists in Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Greece and other nations. Selected bibliography N6447.A7216 2014 Giulio Carlo Argan - Achille Bonito Oliva Η μοντέρνα τέχνη, 1770-1970 / Η τέχνη στην καμπή του 21ου αιώνα, μετάφραση: Λίνα Παπαδημήτρη, Μαρία Σπυριδοπούλου πρόλογος: Νίκος Κεσσανλής, Ηράκλειο : Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2014. ΞΥΔ 272447 Post-impressionism : cross-currents in European and American painting, 1880-1906. Washington : National Gallery of Art, 1980. ND547.5.I4 C75 2007 Critical readings in Impressionism and post-impressionism : an anthology, edited by Mary Tompkins Lewis. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 8

Laboratory courses EM001 Alexandros Maridakis Basic Computing Skills (Introduction to ICT) Laboratory course for groups of first-year undergraduate students (up to 30 people). The course consists of 4 lessons/classes which will be repeated 3 times during each semester, so that all first-year students will be able to attend it (approximately 90 students per semester). EM002 Ariadne Gazi Internet & Humanities: Historical background- Website Categories - Assessment methods - Online research tools Laboratory course for groups of first-year undergraduate students (up to 30 people). The course consists of 4 lessons/classes which will be repeated 3 times during each semester, so that all first-year students will be able to attend it (approximately 90 students per semester). Each 3-hour lesson is offered once a week and consists of two parts, a theoretical and a practical one (for the latter the Computer-Lab of the Faculty of Letters will be used). 9