| Course Contents |
| Among the topics of this course include the rise of Christianity, the reasons the Roman Empire fell in the East, the development of art, architecture, small finds, and, especially cities. How was the roman city transformed, how best to characterize this complex period both locally and globally. Moreover, it will be examine the Byzantine cities. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction |
narration |
| 2 |
What is the late antiquity?
What is Byzantine? |
narration, slide presentation, question and answer teaching methods |
| 3 |
Late antique city
City and Rural Settlement in Byzantine |
narration, slide presentation, question and answer teaching methods |
| 4 |
Late antique city: Aphrodisias, Laoedikia, Hierapolis, Ephesos, Eleausa Sebastea, Nysa, Mokisos, Miletos, Tlos, Tripolis, İstanbul. |
student presentation, discussion |
| 5 |
Late antique city: Aphrodisias, Laoedikia, Hierapolis, Ephesos, Eleausa Sebastea, Nysa, Mokisos, Miletos, İstanbul, Tlos, Tripolis. |
student presentation, discussion |
| 6 |
Late antique city: Aphrodisias, Laoedikia, Hierapolis, Ephesos, Eleausa Sebastea, Nysa, Mokisos, Miletos, İstanbul, Tlos, Tripolis. |
student presentation, discussion |
| 7 |
Late antique city: Aphrodisias, Laoedikia, Hierapolis, Ephesos, Eleausa Sebastea, Nysa, Mokisos, Miletos, İstanbul, Tlos, Tripolis. |
student presentation, discussion |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Late antique city: Aphrodisias, Laoedikia, Hierapolis, Ephesos, Eleausa Sebastea, Nysa, Mokisos, Miletos, İstanbul, Tlos, Tripolis. |
student presentation, discussion |
| 10 |
Byzantine city: Amorium, Antiochia in Maeander, Nicea, Sobesos |
student presentation, discussion |
| 11 |
Byzantine city: Amorium, Antiochia in Maeander, Nicea, Sobesos |
student presentation, discussion |
| 12 |
Byzantine city: Amorium, Antiochia in Maeander, Nicea, Sobesos |
student presentation, discussion |
| 13 |
Byzantine city: Amorium, Antiochia in Maeander, Nicea, Sobesos |
student presentation, discussion |
| 14 |
Cities |
student final presentation, discussion |
| 15 |
Cities |
student final presentation, discussion |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Zavagno, L. (2021). The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610-1204. |
| 2 |
Cameron, A. (2015). The Mediterranean world in late Antiquity: AD 395-700. Routledge. |
| 3 |
Brown, P. (1997). So debate the world of Late Antiquity revisited. Symbolae Osloenses, 72(1), 5-30. |
| 4 |
Rich, J. (1999). Geç Antik Çağda Kent, Homer. |
| 5 |
Crow, J. (2001). Fortifications and urbanism in late antiquity: Thessaloniki and other eastern cities. JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY-SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES-, 42, 89-105. |
| 6 |
Jacobs, I. (2012). The creation of the late antique city: Constantinople and asia minor during the'theodosian renaissance'. Byzantion, 113-164. |
| 7 |
Saradi-Mendelovici, H. (1990). Christian attitudes toward pagan monuments in Late Antiquity and their legacy in later Byzantine centuries. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 44, 47-61. |
| 8 |
S. Bassett, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. |
| 9 |
Foss, C. (1979). Ephesus after antiquity: a late antique, Byzantine, and Turkish city. CUP Archive. |
| 10 |
Zavagno, L. (2009). Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 500–900). BAR Publishing. |
| 11 |
Crow, J. (2017). Fortifications. In The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: From the End of Late Antiquity until the Coming of the Turks (pp. 90-108). Oxford University Press. |
| 12 |
Niewohner, P. (Ed.). (2017). The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: from the end of Late Antiquity until the coming of the Turks. Oxford University Press. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| projector |
