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Spring 2018  |  CNES 8190 Section 001: Seminar: Issues in Ancient Art and Archaeology -- Ancient Mystery Cults (67690)

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Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
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Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
Meets With:
GRK 8910 Section 001
RELS 8190 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 201
Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 8 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Selected issues, with special attention to current scholarly disputes. Topics specified in [Class Schedule].
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67690/1183

Spring 2018  |  CNES 8190 Section 002: Seminar: Issues in Ancient Art and Archaeology -- Archaeologies of Power, Time, Memory and the Body (70320)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
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Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
Meets With:
ARTH 8190 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue 04:30PM - 07:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 445
Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 5 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Selected issues, with special attention to current scholarly disputes. Topics specified in [Class Schedule].
Class Description:
Topic for Fall 2012: Fire Temples and Sacred Spaces: Contesting Sacred Topographies, Architecture and Ritual in Persia and the Ancient Iranian World. This seminar explores the development, rupture and change in Iranian sacred space, topography, architecture, and royal ritual from the Median through the Sasanian eras (ca. 700 BCE-642 CE). As important subthemes, this seminar will 1) consider historiographical problems surrounding various scholarly constructions of a tradition of Iranian fire temple architecture, paying special attention to the continued influence of Nazi-era scholarship and 2) introduce select contemporary theoretical approaches to natural, architectonic, and ritual inscriptions of space. The seminar considers evidence of sacred space and architecture under the Achaemenid dynasty and appropriation of sacred sites in Egypt, Babylon and Anatolia. It will examine, in particular, the evidence (or lack thereof) for the Achaemenid fire temple. It then considers the impact of the Seleukid Empire on Iranian cultures and religions (broadly defined) and the subsequent emergence of new traditions of sacred architecture and cult under the Arsacids, Kushans, and Sasanians. In addition to considering the transformation of Iranian traditions, it investigates the impact of these new traditions on the Mediterranean and the lands in the interstices, such as Armenia, Pontos and Commagene, which selectively appropriated Greek, Mesopotamian, and Iranian traditions.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70320/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 May 2012

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