The aim of the course is twofold: to introduce Hellenistic art and archaeology (323-31 BC) and present the major Roman monuments of Greece to undergraduate students. Through this course students acquire an understanding of the development of major categories of Hellenistic art (architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaics, pottery), and tackle issues of contemporary research in this field. The course focuses on the trends and innovations of Hellenistic art by examining the monuments in their historical and socio-economic context, and on the contribution of the Greek and Hellenistic tradition in the development of Roman art, presenting aspects of the latter in Greece. The course includes the following subjects:

 A 1. Architecture (characteristics and development of temples and sanctuaries in the landscape, city-planning and organisation, houses, palaces, funerary architecture: “Macedonian tombs”) 2. Sculpture (portraiture, votive sculptures, the sculptures of the Great altar at Pergamon, gods and their entourage, genre figures, Damophon, neo-attic reliefs). 3. Mosaics (Pella, Vergina, Amphipolis, Delos, Pompeii) 4. Painting (“Macedonian” tombs, painted grave-stelai) 5. Pottery (black-glaze with “West Slope” decoration, relief skyphoi, Hadra hydriai) 

B -Introduction to the major categories of Roman art focusing on monuments erected in Greece and on the contribution of the Greek and Hellenistic tradition in Roman art: -The development of Roman architecture in Greece (temples, houses, city-planning and organisation, theatres/amphitheatres, baths) - Roman Sculpture in Greece and the East [portraiture, especially of the emperors, historic reliefs (triumphal arches and columns), funerary monuments (Attic sarcophagoi)] - The impact of Hellenistic painting to the four Pompeian styles