COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC SEAFARING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAA 5015 CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC SEAFARING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ABDURRAHMAN HARUN ÖZDAŞ

Offered to

UNDERWATER ARCHAELOGY

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to give information about the history of Classical and Hellenistic seafaring, war and merchant ships forms, regional distribution of them, related sea battles, navies, naval bases, and wrecks.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize the ships, sea trade routes and shipbuilding techniques in Classical and Hellenistic periods
2   Be able to compare the process of development of seafaring from ancient times to the present
3   Be able to describe the socio-economic history of the Classical and Hellenistic civilizations based on the traces of seafaring
4   Be able to consider the role of seafaring in the relations between different cultures in Classical and Hellenistic times
5   Be able to gain a historical perspective about the sea peoples and colonization movement
6   Be able to have an active role to develop projects and modeling for the protection of International underwater cultural heritage
7   Be able to conduct the collaborative projects on Classical and Hellenistic seafaring with researchers from multi-disciplinary fields such as ship engineering, seafaring, history, etc.
8   Be able to develop projects modeling research-interpretation-management on seafaring

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Classical and Hellenistic Periods seafaring
2 Geometric Period Ships and Maritime Ship depictions on-Geometric Vases -The emergence of the first spurs
3 Homer Period seafaring and Ships - Iliad -Odysseus - The life in Homer period
4 7th cent. BC Greek Ships, Etruscans, and Phoenicians -Phoenician rowing ships -The first two sailing ships -Giglio Wreck
5 6th cent. BC Greek Ships, Ship Shelters, Anchors and War Tactics -Classical Period Athens navy
6 Biremes -Two-stage sequential paddle ships battle -Phoenician Biremes -Greek Biremes -Anatolian Biremes
7 Midterm
8 Triremes I -Three-stage sequential paddle ships battle -Phoenician Triremes
9 Triremes II -Greek Triremes Anatolian Triremes
10 Classical Wrecks 5th cent. BC Tektaş Wreck
11 Greek Maritime Law and Agreements - Trade and Policy in the ancient Greeks -Kyrenia Shipwreck -Porticello Shipwreck
12 Navies and Naval Bases in the Mediterranean Sea -Athens -Carthage -Phaselis -Sidon -Colonization movements
13 Hellenistic Ship Forms -Liburnianlar -Hemiolialar -Other boats -Mysa
14 Anatolian Ships -Bithynia -Lycia -Caria

Recomended or Required Reading

1-G.F.BASS, ed. A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology (New York and London 1972)
2-L.Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Princeton 1971)
3-J.S. Morrison and R.T.Williams, Greek Oared Ships 900-322 BC. (Cambridge 1968)
4-P.Throckmorton, The Sea Remembers:Shipwrecks and Archaeology (New York 1987)
5-J.Boardman, The Greek Overseas (Baltimore 1964)
6-C.A.Roebuck, Ionian Trade and Colonization (New York 1959)
7-G.S.Kirik "Ships on Geometrick Vases" BSA 44 (1949)
8-S.Mark, "Od.5.244-57 and Homeric Ship Construction: A Reappraisal", AJA 95 (1991) 441-445; "Odysseus (5.235-53) and Homeric Ship Construction:A Clarification" IJNA 25 (1996) 46-48
9-L.Basch " Phoenician Oard Ships" MM 55 (1969) 139-162, 227-245; "The Earliest Two Masted Ship" Archaeology 16.2 (1963) 108-111
10-F.Welsh, Building the Trireme (London 1988)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses: Theoretical information is given and related topics are significantly examined with examples. Illustrations of ships, models, and excavated wrecks emerging from Geometric period up to the end of the Hellenistic period with recent ship forms will be examined. The information related with seafaring from mentioned by ancient writers will be evaluated with underwater archaeological data, and thus the structures associated these periods will be revealed. Courses will be open to discussion.
2. Assignment: Each student prepares homework which is determined by lecturer and present it. Presentations will be carried out on the last hour of each week. The references related to the course will be read by students in parallel weekly program.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Reading 5 2 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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