2020-21

The course consists of the following units:
1. Folklore and Fairytale:  Fundamental Scholars of the Fairytale
2.  The Features of Fairytales, Stylistic and Structural Elements.
3.  The First Publications of Fairytales in Greece and Abroad.
4.  The Relationship between Myth and Fairytale (animal myths, myths of men, myths of animals and men).
5. Theories on the Origin of Fairytales I:  Methods of Analysis of Fairytales. Theories regarding Origin, Classification (by categories, by pairs, by subject matter) and the Analytical Methods Employed.

The course deals with the evolution of Greek script and manuscripts from the 4th to the 19th c.
Course Aims: The aim of the course is to introduce the student directly to the written sources for Greek history and the cultural heritage of Greece.
Course Outcome: At the end of the course, the student will be acquainted with Greek script and its evolution, writing instruments, scriptoria, writing and reading in Byzantium and in the post-Byzantine period, manuscripts and their archaeology, the elements of chronology, the description of manuscripts and of documents.

The course introduces the student to prehistoric culture and lays emphasis on the Greek world. The historical survey covers all periods of prehistory, from the appearance of man to the Bronze Age. It includes matters such as the evolution of man and the material culture of the Paleolithic period both in the rest of Europe and in Greece, the culture of the Neolithic period in Greece and Bronze Age communities.

The course examines material culture, the organization and use of space and architecture in Neolithic communities in Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. It examines the history or archaeological research in northern Greece in general and problems of dating the various phases of the Neolithic period.

The course deals with methodological questions involved in the history of Byzantine art.  It examines the terms ‘iconography’ and ‘iconology’, theories pertaining to iconology, various schools of painting, such as the ‘Vienna School’ and the founders of iconology in Europe.  It also deals with the term ‘Byzantine iconology’ and iconological matters in the history of Byzantine art.