CLA/HIST
149: The Ancient Near East
John C. Franklin
Final Exam: MON 05/09/2011 01:30 - 04:15 PM FLEMING 101.
Reference Map for Part One
of Final
4/25: Herodotus on Lydians,
Medes, and Destruction of Nineveh
5/2: Herodotus on the Rise
of the Persians
5/2: The Behistun
Inscription of Darius
5/4 Alexander in the Near
East:
1) Alexander enters Babylon: account of Quintus Curtius
Rufus.
2) Short Babylonian
astronomical diary.
3) Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander: 7.1 (future plans of
conquest), 7.4 (mass wedding of Macedonians and Persians at Susa) 7.17 (plans
to restore Marduk ziggurat), 7.24-30 (Alexander’s death).
Essay
Guidelines for “Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire” Project
(now extra-credit, or use as basis for final paper by investigating several of
the prompt questions).
Guidelines for Final Paper (due 5/13 at latest):
Option
1: 3-4 page, single-spaced topic of your own choice.
Option
2: 3-4 page, single-spaced, analysis of Civilization board-game.
Click here for schedule of
comparisons between Mieroop textbook and A. Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East.
Click here for final
presentation schedule (and instructions).
Philological
Profile: Instructions (due 3/4, day of the midterm).
Lecture Powerpoints modified for web:
Mieroop 1 and Enki and the
World Order
Tips
for Reading Sumerian Poetry
Mieroop 2 (Uruk
Phenomenon) and Inanna and Enki.
Mieroop 3 (Early
Dynastic Period), Gilgamesh and Aka, and Sumerian King List
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta / Lugalbanda and the Thunderbird
Mieroop 4
(Sargon and Old Akkadian Period). Enheduanna. Cursing of Agade. Sargon Birth Legend.
Mieroop 4 (Ur III
period), Lament for Ur, Royal Praise Hymns.
Gudea
Cylinders, Ziggurat Construction
Mieroop 5-6:
Isin-Larsa period, Age of Amorites, Assyrian King List, Marriage of Martu.
POST-MIDTERM:
Hittite Old
Kingdom (some stuff on midterm, but lecture after midterm, some things
needed for final)
Hurrians
(Mitanni), Hittites (New Kingdom).
Hattic,
Hurrian, and Hititte ‘Literary’ Readings
Syria-Palestine,
Ugarit, and The
Baal Cycle
Kassites and Elamites
in Late Bronze Age
The Great
Collapse / Sea Peoples
Mieroop 11-12:
Early First Millennium / The Rise of Assyria / The Slump + Urartu
Assyria’s
World Domination and Fall
Neo-Babylonian
Period (contemporary with previous)
Old Persian Period
(Brittany’s slides)
MIDTERM AND FINAL
These are lists of the names of people, places,
cultures, and gods that you should know for the tests. NOTE that these are
subject to minor revisions. Come midterm time I will give a final list (which
will include Egyptian names which from Nick). In the meantime, these lists will
still be very useful. If you run into a name in Mieroop, Pritchard ANET, or Jacobsen,
Harps,
check if it’s on the list, and write down the essential information about each.
Also note that the online powerpoints contain most of the essential information
for each.
Midterm study guide
(subject to minor revisions)
Midterm Map IDs:
Southern Babylonia (= Sumer and Akkad)
Midterm format. The midterm could contain any
combination of the following:
1) Match list of historical figures to the most
important deed of each. They will be broken down into smaller groups by period,
just as on the midterm study guide.
2) Match god / temple names to what each is god
of, or whose temple it is. See midterm study guide.
3) Identify city names on partially blank map
of southern Babylonia. See midterm study map above.
4) Short list of key cities. Tell me what each
is important for.
5) Choice of essay question, including at
least:
5A)
Sources for ANE History: what genres they are, how they change over time, what
they tell us, what their limitations are, the relative prominence of myth vs
history, etc. One could also discuss Greek/biblical accounts here.
5B)
Ideology of Kingship: could discuss relation of king and goddess; Sacred
Marriage; king as Dumuzi; divine kingship (when introduced, by whom, how long
it lasts); royal hymns; transition from priest-king / temple state to more
secular power and control of temple / palace by one figure.
5C)
Sketch the historical / political sequence of ANE history down to the Age of
Hammurabi. What are the major period? What are the major social and political
characteristics / developments of each, from the Uruk period to the Age of
Amorites?
ANE PRINT
RESOURCES IN BAILEY-HOWE REFERENCE
ONLINE READINGS
Section of Life of Aesop
which derives from the figure of the Aramaic sage Ahiqar.
E-texts for
Friday 1/20. These readings are to give you an idea of what the Greeks knew, or
thought they knew, about Assyria, Babylonia, and more ancient Near Eastern
history:
I. Fragment 4 of Phocylides. Mid-sixth BC, so within living
memory of the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE:
This too says Phocylides: a city in good order,
though small
and built on a distant crag, is mightier than
foolish Ninos
II. Herodotus’
description of Babylon, from book 1 of The Histories (mid-fifth century BCE)
III. Diodorus
Siculus 2:1-28 legendary account of Assyrian and earlier history through
Greek eyes, though probably incorporating legends current in the Hellenistic
Near East (i.e. four-five centuries after the events). This is part of the a
larger work called The Historical Library (Bibliotheca historica), belonging to the
Greek genre of ‘universal history’, i.e. an account of ‘world history’, but
incorporating mythological material for the earliest times.
Additional
readings for 3/21:
Kingship
in Heaven and Song of Ullikummi)
Hesiod
Theogony lines 116-206 (compare with Kingship in Heaven)