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Course Syllabus Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History About Your Professor...................................................................................................4 Introduction...................................................................................................................5 Lecture 1 The Tale of the Trojan War: Introduction and Overview .......................6 Lecture 2 The Mycenaeans .................................................................................10 Lecture 3 The Hittites...........................................................................................14 Lecture 4 The Sea Peoples and the End of the Late Bronze Age ......................19 Lecture 5 Greek Literary Evidence for the Trojan War and Its Sequence of Events........................................................................23 Lecture 6 The Homeric Question: Bronze Age or Iron Age?...............................27 Lecture 7 Hittite Literary Evidence for Troy: The Mycenaeans and the Trojan War.....................................................................................31 Lecture 8 Heinrich Schliemann and the City of Troy...........................................35 Lecture 9 Priam’s Treasure .................................................................................39 Lecture 10 Wilhelm Dörpfeld and the City of Troy VI ............................................42 Lecture 11 Carl Blegen and the City of Troy VIIa..................................................46 Lecture 12 Manfred Korfmann and the Results of Recent Excavations................49 Lecture 13 Possible Motivations and Dates for a Trojan War ...............................53 Lecture 14 Did the Trojan War Take Place? .........................................................56 Course Materials ........................................................................................................59 3
Photo courtesy of Eric H. Cline About Your Professor Eric H. Cline Dr. Eric H. Cline, a former Fulbright scholar, is chair of the Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in both the Classics/Semitics Department and the Anthropology Department. A prolific researcher, Dr. Cline is the author or editor of seven books and has more than seventy articles and book reviews to his credit. His books include The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age, which received the 2001 Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) Publication Award for “Best Popular Book on Archaeology”; Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel; Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean; Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign (co-editor); The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium BC; Thutmose III: A New Biography; and a book for young adults entitled The Ancient Egyptian World (coauthor with Jill Rubalcaba). Professor Cline received the Morton Bender Award for Teaching at the George Washington University in 2004 and the Archaeological Institute of America’s National “Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching” Award for 2005. He currently teaches a wide variety of courses, including Troy and the Trojan War, History of Ancient Greece, History of Rome, and Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age. Professor Cline has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. His research has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, US News & World Report, the London Daily Telegraph, the London Mirror, and many other publications around the world. In addition, Professor Cline has been featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts such as the BBC World Services, National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and the History Channel. Dr. Cline is married, with two children, two cats, and varying numbers of fish. 4
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