Stefan Feuser

The papers and videos presented here are the result of the international conference 'Teaching Classics in the Digital Age' held online on the 15 and 16 June 2020. As digital media provide new possibilities for teaching and outreach in Classics, the conference 'Teaching Classics in the Digital Age' aimed at presenting current approaches to digital teaching and sharing best practices by bringing together different projects and practitioners from all fields of Classics (including Classical Archaeology, Greek and Latin Studies and Ancient History). Furthermore, it aimed at starting a discussion about principles, problems and the future of teaching Classics in the 21st century within and beyond its single fields.

The paper presents the MOOC Discovering Greek & Roman Cities, created by an international team under the Strategic Partnership (ERASMUS+) Ancient Cities. In two runs in fall 2019 and spring 2020, the course has reached a total of 4,800 learners. In this paper, we present an overview of the course's target audiences and learning objectives, as well as the ways in which we promoted the MOOC to the target audiences. Following this, we present the structure and the learning material developed. Based on several questionnaires answered by the participants and user data of the MOOC platform, we were able to collect comprehensive information on the demography of the participants, their expectations and their experiences. These data allow us to draw conclusions about the opportunities and difficulties of open education in the historical humanities, which will be discussed.

Der Aufsatz stellt den MOOC Discovering Greek & Roman Cities vor, der von einem internationalen Team im Rahmen der Strategischen Partnerschaft (ERASMUS+) Ancient Cities erstellt worden ist. In zwei Durchgängen im Herbst 2019 und Frühjahr 2020 hat der Kurs insgesamt 4.800 Lernende erreicht. In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über die Zielgruppen und Lernziele des Kurses und stellen vor, auf welchen Wegen wir den MOOC bei den Zielgruppen bekannt gemacht haben. Daran anschließend stellen wir die Struktur und das erarbeitete Lernmaterial vor. Auf Basis mehrere Fragebögen, die von den Teilnehmer*innen beantwortet worden sind, sowie Nutzerdaten der MOOC-Plattform haben wir umfassende Informationen über die Demographie der Teilnehmer*innen, ihre Erwartungen und ihre Erfahrungen sammeln können. Diese Daten lassen Aussagen über Chancen und Schwierigkeiten offener Bildungsangebote in den historischen Geisteswissenschaften zu, die diskutiert werden.

The paper presents the international, multilingual teaching project 'Ancient Cities'. The contributors explain the production of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 'Discovering Greek & Roman Cities', its structure and learning material (such as videos, introductory texts, and quizzes), the participants’ varied demographics and their feedback. Furthermore, they show how the course’s materials were successfully implemented in academic teaching at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shortly after the founding of Messene in 369 BCE, the sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis was established on the south-eastern flank of Mount Ithome on a prominent rock spur. Based on the latest results of research carried out in the sanctuary, the article outlines the topography within the sanctuary and obtains a fresh look at how the different buildings were situated in the temenos and integrated into the natural landscape. Key questions are how the materiality of the architectural space altered the natural terrain and how the materially defined space of the sanctuary interrelated with the human action (worshipper/visitors approaching and moving within the sanctuary).

Read online open access at https://www.sidestone.com/books/hellenistic-architecture-and-human-action

The MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" is ready for registration at https://ou.edia.nl/courses/course-v1:AncientCities_Project+DGRC+DGRC_2020/about

A teaser is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgRPbCL31c

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" is aimed at people interested in archaeology, art and cultural history, architecture and history. The participation does not require prerequisites such as possession of a qualification or a level of performance in earlier studies The course can be accessed online free of charge. Over a period of eight weeks, experts from five different European countries will impart basic knowledge about ancient cities and methods of urban archaeology. In this way, participants learn about the complexity of the ancient cultural heritage. The course is available in German, English and French from 23 April 2020.

The course is divided into eight modules. After an introduction, life, religion, death, politics, infrastructure and the economy of ancient cities will be discussed. The last module focuses on the legacy of ancient cities and the role of the ancient heritage in our cities today. Each module consists of three 10-minute videos. Following these clips, the participants can work on further assignments, answer quiz questions and go deeper into the subject matter on the basis of selected literature references. An online forum is available for virtual discussions and exchange with the teachers. Once a week, one of the lecturers gives insight into their own research area in a video conference and is also available to answer questions. Once the participants have watched all the videos and completed the corresponding assignments, they can finally receive an official certificate confirming their successful participation in the course.

The MOOC "Discovering Greek&Roman Cities" will not only communicate knowledge about the layout and function or the historical development of ancient cities. The aim of the course is also to promote interest in and discussion of the (ancient) cultural heritage in one's own city. The MOOC's digital platform makes it possible for several hundred people from different cultural backgrounds with different educational backgrounds to take part in the course - a number and diversity that cannot be achieved through lectures or seminars at universities.

The MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" is ready for registration at https://ou.edia.nl/courses/course-v1:AncientCities_project+DGRC+DGRC_2019/about

A teaser is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgRPbCL31c

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" is aimed at people interested in archaeology, art and cultural history, architecture and history. The participation does not require prerequisites such as possession of a qualification or a level of performance in earlier studies The course can be accessed online free of charge. Over a period of eight weeks, experts from five different European countries will impart basic knowledge about ancient cities and methods of urban archaeology. In this way, participants learn about the complexity of the ancient cultural heritage. The course is available in German, English and French from 12 September 2019.

The course is divided into eight modules. After an introduction, life, religion, death, politics, infrastructure and the economy of ancient cities will be discussed. The last module focuses on the legacy of ancient cities and the role of the ancient heritage in our cities today. Each module consists of three 10-minute videos. Following these clips, the participants can work on further assignments, answer quiz questions and go deeper into the subject matter on the basis of selected literature references. An online forum is available for virtual discussions and exchange with the teachers. Once a week, one of the lecturers gives insight into their own research area in a video conference and is also available to answer questions. Once the participants have watched all the videos and completed the corresponding assignments, they can finally receive an official certificate confirming their successful participation in the course.

The MOOC "Discovering Greek&Roman Cities" will not only communicate knowledge about the layout and function or the historical development of ancient cities. The aim of the course is also to promote interest in and discussion of the (ancient) cultural heritage in one's own city. The MOOC's digital platform makes it possible for several hundred people from different cultural backgrounds with different educational backgrounds to take part in the course - a number and diversity that cannot be achieved through lectures or seminars at universities.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Discovering Greek&Roman Cities" is aimed at people interested in archaeology, art and cultural history, architecture and history. The participation does not require prerequisites such as possession of a qualification or a level of performance in earlier studies The course can be accessed online free of charge. Over a period of eight weeks, experts from five different European countries will impart basic knowledge about ancient cities and methods of urban archaeology. In this way, participants learn about the complexity of the ancient cultural heritage. The project is committed to the European idea, so the course will be available in German, English and French from 12 September 2019.

The course is divided into eight modules. After an introduction, life, religion, death, politics, infrastructure and the economy of ancient cities will be discussed. The last module focuses on the legacy of ancient cities and the role of the ancient heritage in our cities today. Each module consists of three 10-minute videos. Following these clips, the participants can work on further assignments, answer quiz questions and go deeper into the subject matter on the basis of selected literature references. An online forum is available for virtual discussions and exchange with the teachers. Once a week, one of the lecturers gives insight into their own research area in a video conference and is also available to answer questions. Once the participants have watched all the videos and completed the corresponding assignments, they can finally receive an official certificate confirming their successful participation in the course.

ABSTRACT During Hellenistic times, when the Pergamenian kingdom was prospering, Pergamum was operating an important harbour, used by merchants and military at the city of Elaia. This paper focuses on the development, utilisation and decay of the closed harbour of Elaia, which is discussed in the context of the landscape evolution of the environs of the ancient settlement. Based on geoarchaeological, archaeological and literary evidence, the construction of two harbour moles in order to provide shelter against wave action and enemies can be attributed to the early Hellenistic period. Geoelectric measurements revealed the construction profile of the moles. Coring evidence indicated that together with mole construction, a greater area of the formerly shallow marine and sublittoral terrain was consolidated, most probably to create space for harbour installations. The closed harbour basin was used intensely during Hellenistic and Roman times. Later, continued siltation hindered further usage. In combination with the decline of the city of Elaia in Late Antiquity, this was the reason why the harbour was abandoned. Scenarios for the time of the maximum transgression of the sea around 2500 BC, the early Hellenistic times around 300 BC, and Late Antiquity AD 500, are presented.

ABSTRACT Pergamum (modern: Bergama) was operating an important harbour used by military forces and merchants at the city of Elaia during Hellenistic and Roman Imperial times. Harbour-related facilities such as warehouses, breakwaters and wharfs document the importance of this harbour site not only for the Pergamenians. This paper focuses on the purpose and age of six submerged wall structures situated approximately 1 km south of the ancient closed harbour basin of Elaia. Geoelectric cross-sections and semi-aquatic coring near these walls failed to detect any solid basement under the walls which excludes their possible use as breakwaters or wharfs. Instead, the walls were most likely delineating and separating evaporation ponds of salt works, which compares well with similar structures from other periods and places around the Mediterranean. Combined OSL and 14C-dating determined the construction age of the installation between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. Subsequent (re-)uses are likely and are in agreement with findings from archaeological surveys

This is the introduction page to the catalogue "Bilder und Vorstellungen römischer Hafenanlagen".
The whole online catalogue is freely accessible via http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/?q=de_DE/node/370. It compiles over 400 database entries of images of harbours, villae maritimae, activities in harbours, personifications and further allusions to ancient harbours and maritime architecture.

As the past is an abstract concept, teaching and learning about the past can be challenging. Various perspectives on the past, as opposed to presenting it as straightforward reconstruction as a result of a set of facts, events, characters and dates, must be stimulated by providing tools that cater for critical evaluation. Such tools should allow for inquiry, problem solving and debating enigmas considering didactic principles, such as that of the ‘hands on, minds on, hearts on’ perspective. This requires activating methodologies for teaching and learning, for which digital technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) are often suitable.

In this session, we would like to invite papers on theoretical, technical and practical initiatives developed around the idea of teaching, learning and researching the past using digital tools (i.e. VR), and of exploring the relationship between digital/hybrid and analogue pedagogy in archaeological education.

Papers and posters can be submitted at https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/

Digital media provide new possibilities for teaching and outreach in Classics. But how can we best make use of the new technologies, both at university and in communicating with the broader public? The conference Teaching Classics in the Digital Age aims at presenting current approaches to digital teaching and sharing best practices by bringing together different projects and practitioners from all fields of Classics (including Classical Archaeology, Greek and Latin Studies and Ancient History). Furthermore, it aims at starting a discussion about principles, problems and the future of teaching Classics in the 21st century within and beyond its single fields.

We consider the following as key questions:
- How can digital methods and research approaches be implemented in teaching at university level?
- Which technical possibilities are suitable for digital teaching and how can they be used successfully?
- What are the limitations of and obstacles for applying digital teaching methods in Classics?
- How can digital methods help us to reach out to teachers and students at primary and secondary schools as well as to the broader public?
- How can digital methods contribute to the dissemination of Classics as part of a lifelong education?

In den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften werden Raum und Zeit nicht mehr als gegebene Entitäten aufgefasst, sondern als soziale Konstrukte. Während Raum dabei als zentrale Analysekategorie in die altertumswissenschaftliche Forschung Einzug gehalten hat und auf dieser Basis wichtige neue Erkenntnisse zu antiken Stadträumen erzielt worden sind, ist Zeit deutlich weniger Aufmerksamkeit entgegengebracht worden. Dabei ist Temporalität – verstanden als soziale und kulturelle Vorstellungen und Wahrnehmungen von Zeit – ein Hauptmerkmal von Städten und urbanen Räumen (Wunderlich 2013). Die soziale Wahrnehmung von Zeit in Städten ist ortsabhängig und intersubjektiv. Die kulturelle Vorstellung von Zeit äußert sich unter anderem in der Gestaltung und Nutzung urbaner Räume.

Der Workshop „Temporalität und die antike Stadt“ stellt Zeit als Kategorie zur Analyse antiker Städte und urbaner Räume in den Vordergrund. Grundsätzlich wird es darum gehen, den Rhythmen von und der subjektiven und ortspezifischen Zeit in antiken Städten und Stadträumen nachzugehen. Nicht im Vordergrund stehen werden Fragen zur Epocheneinteilung, Systeme antiker Zeitmessung oder Kalendersysteme. Vielmehr sollen der Umgang mit Baubrachen und Ruinen und ihre jeweilige Bedeutung für die Wahrnehmung von Zeit in den Blick genommen werden; es sollen die unterschiedlichen Rhythmen von städtischen Räumen wie Platzanlagen, Heiligtümern, Zuschauerbauten und Thermenanlagen nachgezeichnet werden; es soll untersucht werden, wie sich Temporalität in der städtischen Architektur z. B. im Baudekor oder in der Nutzung von Innenräumen ausdrückte.

Grundlegend sind dabei folgende Fragen:
- Wie und an welchen Orten äußert sich Temporalität in der antiken Stadt?
- Wie und wo wurde Temporalität bewusst eingesetzt und inszeniert?
- Was waren die zeitlichen Rhythmen von einzelnen Räumen innerhalb einer Stadt?

In 2019, the Pergamon Excavation concentrated on projects of the new research programme ›The transformation of the Pergamon micro-region between the Hellenistic and the Roman imperial period‹ (TransPergMikro). Completion of the excavation of the so-called banqueting house on the east slope of the acropolis hill produced important new findings on the construction, furnishings, amenities, and use of the unusual structure. The first systematic excavations in the amphitheatre of Pergamon attested a niche-wall as the termination of the arena, its floor and also a construction for damming up water in its interior. Building archaeology investigations were continued in the amphitheatre as well as in the extraurban thermal bath. Archaeological and geophysical follow-up investigations on the tumuli Yığma Tepe and X-Tepe were concluded. A new project in the vicinity of the Asklepieion yielded initial findings on land use and settlement structure and also discovered a previously unknown construction terrace above the sanctuary. Investigations in the surroundings of Pergamon using archaeology and physical geography concentrated on selected sections of the landscape and on certain exceptional structures and their immediate surroundings at the southwest edge of the Kaikos (Bakırçay) plain. Of particular note is a complex with rich marble architecture and evidence of the production of architectural terracotta. The first campaign of an intensive survey in Pitane (Çandarlı) was primarily aimed at ascertaining the type, scope and duration of pottery production there. Monument conservation measures again focused on the gymnasium and the Red Hall, where conservation work lasting several years on the cladding of the southeast temenos wall was concluded. The Pergamon Excavation broke new ground with a capacity building project in the excavated residential area below the expedition house.

The Pergamon Excavation in 2018 concentrated on follow-up work to the concluded research programme and on preparations for the new long-term project »The transformation of the micro-region Pergamon between the Hellenistic and the Roman imperial period«. Archaeological and construction-history investigations of an extraurban thermal bath from the Roman imperial period were commenced. Geophysical prospection supplied important information on the full extent of the bath. An urgent necessity in research into the imperial-period city was embarked on with the newly initiated investigation of the Pergamon amphitheatre. Follow-up investigations at the monumental tumulus Yığma Tepe using geophysical methods permitted a concrete appraisal of several anomalies inside the burial mound. Projects in the surroundings of Pergamon revealed an increased number of sites especially on the west coast of the Kane Peninsula and in the western foothills of the Yünt Dağ Mountains, affording new insights into the function of the micro-region as a ›visual region‹ and extending the spectrum of rural settlement forms. Monument conservation continued at the Red Hall and the gymnasium in line with the new overall conservation-plan. Reconstruction of a corner of the peristyle of the palaestra in the gymnasium was completed. A further focus of work lay on damage documentation in the gymnasium’s east baths.