Intensive course Death in the Greek World (original) (raw)

The intensive and interdisciplinary course on the Archaeology of Death will take place in Greece in spring 2016. The aim of the course is to treat in depth various themes related to the study of death in the ancient world. The course will adopt a diachronic approach, starting from prehistory and ending with 19th century neoclassical funerary monuments or 20th century military cemeteries. The course will integrate different disciplines –archaeology, history, ancient literature, epigraphy, social theory, anthropology– and will combine both methodological (e.g. recent advances in excavation methodology, the bioarchaeological analysis of human remains, the study of inscriptions) and theoretical discussions (discussions on memory, personhood, age and gender, interpretation of ritual, attitudes to death, etc.), in order to reach a more global understanding of mortuary practices and changing attitudes to death. The course can be taken on its own (5 ECTS), or as part of the (MA and Research MA) course Archaeology of Death which is given in Groningen in the first half of second semester (in which case the students will get 10 ECTS).