Final Template

Final Ancient Geography

Short ID items: provide explanations, definitions, and examples from our class for the following. The more detail, the more precice, the better. No credit will be given if you make no connection to the ancient material of this class. To do this, you should review Thalmann's article, my notes on it, and especially your notes about all the articles and books we read: there is plenty of material for all of these things in them, and the best grades will be earned by those who show clearly that they have reviewed our readings in this light. Right from the very first articles we read, we have been dealing with these theoretical matters, albeit not always explicitly.

A caveat: it is obvious that one could use "Xenophon" as an example for more than one of these items on the final (or "Herodotus" or "The Acropolis article"). And Jamie and I want you to do that, to an extent. If you use the same example for everything, that shows little breadth. So let's say something like the following: if you find yourself using the same author or figure or phenomenon for more than 3 answers, you're overusing it and need to be sure that that particular example is far from the only example you use. It's hard to quantify this, but you get the idea. Variety of examples to illustrate these concepts will count for something, as will an ability to see that any given example can fit more than one of these concepts.

The final will have 12 of the following on it:

Thalmann's 6 propositions:

Space is a medium
Space is produced
Space is a process
Space cannot be separated from time
Narrative matters for space
Space and place are complementary and interdependent

Jamie's cenceptual apparatus

The sociospatial dialectic
The politics of place
Orientalism and the geographic imaginary
Embodied experience
The nature of power
Materiality and Meaning

· Additional Theoretical Phenomena

The complex dialectic between personal identity as well as societal identity and place
The phenomena of the center and periphery
Space and place is subjective
Point of view matters
"Space" and "place" in humanistic cultural terms versus "physical geography" spaces/places/locations
Physical scientist versus humanist/literary divide

Cunliffe's The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek:

Pytheas the man, the explorer, the Greek
The evidence we have for Pytheas
Massalia, Pytheas' home base, as a place in Pytheas' time
The Lure of Tin
The Islands of the Pretanni
Pytheas' measurements of the sun's midday height
Ultima Thule
The magic of Amber
A map which you not only draw but on which you fill in Pytheas' journey and the most important places he visited according to Cunliffe (this one is almost guaranteed to be on the final: drawing ability will only figure into the grade insofar as what you draw has to be labeled and quite generally recognizable as what it is labeled: i.e. don't worry if you "can't draw").