Dr. A. Raia
Fall 2007
MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Print Books:
Abulafia, David , ed. The Mediterranean in History (London, 2003)
Braudel, F. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, tr. Siân
Reynolds, 2 vols. (New York, 1972), vol. 1 (1973)
Braudel, F. Memory & the Mediterranean, tr. Sian Reynolds. Random House: New York, 2002
Constable, Olivia Remie. Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: lodging, trade, and
travel in late antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2003)
Davis, John H. R. People of the Mediterranean: An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology.
Routledge Kegan & Paul: London, 1977.
D’Epiro, Peter, Mary Desmond Pinkowish. Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the
World (Anchor Books, 2001)
Garnsey, Peter. Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and
Crisis. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1989
Gilmore, David D. Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean. American
Anthropological Assn: 1987.
Grove, A. T., O. Rackham. The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: an Ecological History (Yale
University Press: New Haven, London, 2001)
Groves, R. H., F. Di Castri, eds. Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions. Cambridge
University Press: Cambridge, 1991.
Harris, W. V., ed. Rethinking the Mediterranean (Oxford, 2005)
Homer. Odyssey. A variety of good translations are available, notably those by A. Cook, R.
Fitzgerald, R. Fagles, R. Lattimore, A. Mandelbaum, S. Lombardo.
Horden, Peregrine, Nicholas Purcell. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History
(Oxford, 2000).
Hughes, J. Donald. Ecology in Ancient Civilizations. University of New Mexico Press.
Albuquerque, 1975.
Hughes, J. Donald. Pan’s Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1994.
Matvejevic, Predrag. Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape. University of California Press:
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1999.
Norwich, John Julius. The Middle Sea: a History of the Mediterranean (New York, 2006)
Pei, Mario. The Story of Language. Philadelphia & NY, 1965 revised: J.B. Lippincott Co.
Peristiany, J.G., ed. Honour and Shame: The values of Mediterranean society. University of
Chicago Press: Chicago, 1966.
Pirenne, H. Mohammed and Charlemagne, tr. B. Miall. London, 1939.
Ruhlen, Merritt. A Guide to the World’s Languages. Vol. 1: Classification. Stanford University
Press: Stanford, 1987
Journals (with an online presence):
Ancient West & East (2/2002) http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id10660.htm
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry http://www.rhodes.aegean.gr/maa_journal/
Mediterranean Historical Review (6/1986) http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc/mhr/mhr.html
Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights http://home.um.edu.mt/laws/test/mjhr.html
Mediterranean Politics http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13629395.asp
Mediterranean Studies: The Journal of the Mediterranean Studies Association
http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/medstud.html
Scripta Mediterranea: Bulletin of the Society for Mediterranean Studies
http://www.utoronto.ca/cims/files/jourcurr.htm
Internet Sites:
H-Mediterranean, a site for history discussion:
http://www.h-net.org/~mediter
Indo-European Documentation Center, University of Texas at Austin:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/iedocctr/sitemap.html
Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/index.html
Proto Indo European Language: demonstration and exploration website:
http://www.colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/pie.html
Indo European Database:
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/index10.html
European-Mediterranean Seismological Center
http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home
UN Environment Programme: Regional Seas, Mediterranean
http://www.unep.ch/regionalseas/regions/med/medhome.htm
Maps:
Mediterranean Countries:
http://www.shootingonlocation.com/countryguide/index.php?worldarea=mediterranean
Western Mediterranean:
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_04_1Sml.jpg
http://www.vacationstogo.com/images/maps/West_Med.gif
Eastern Mediterranean:
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_11_2Sml.jpg
http://www.vacationstogo.com/images/maps/EasternMed.gif
Greece, the Aegean, Asia Minor:
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/area_a7_dloadSml.jpg
Italy, Tyrrhenian & Adriatic Seas:
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_BackSml.jpg
Roman Empire in time of Diocletian and Constantine:
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_13_2Sml.jpg
Spread of Christianity to 180 CE:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/maps/1/map.html
UNESCO Seismic Hazard Model and Map: Europe and the Mediterranean
http://wija.ija.csic.es/gt/earthquakes
Volcanoes of the Mediterranean:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=01
Language
General:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/weekinreview/23word.html?ref=world
Families: Language Maps:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/families/indoeuropean/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_families_by_percentage_of_speakers_in_
mankind
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/language.html
http://greenberg-conference.stanford.edu
Definitions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_(Ethnologue)
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/languageFamilies.htm
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html
Descriptions:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html
Videos:
The Odyssey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(TV_miniseries) with Armand Assante,
1997
Troy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film) with Brad Pitt, 2004.
Mediterranean on the Rocks (Scientific American) $19.95 http://www.shoppbs.org/sm-pbs-alanalda-in-scientific-american-frontiers-mediterranean-on-the-rocks--pi-1405729.html#Details
For millennia, the Mediterranean Sea has shaped the course of human events, but its priceless heritage of history and
nature is at risk. Help search for killer algae that escaped from Monaco's aquarium, then meet an unlikely candidate
to combat the algae: a voracious sea slug from Cape Canaveral, Florida. An ancient reed boat is reconstructed using
the Mediterranean's last healthy patch of papyrus, while high-tech subs search for shipwrecks.
Mediterranean: Cradle or Coffin? http://www.amazon.com/Mediterranean-Cradle-CoffinJacques-Cousteau/dp/B000OH8A92/ref=pd_rhf_p_5/105-9448129-4689268 $35.98
Only 30 years after finding Mediterranean waters teeming with marine life, Captain Cousteau returns to discover
much of the same sea floor to be a desert, the rich abundance gone. Pollution had taken its dreadful toll, like "an
underwater dust storm." The world famous conservationist devotes the remainder of this voyage to visiting the Zulu
Nation, South Africa.
Cousteau Odyssey: Mediterranean (1977): http://www.amazon.com/Cousteau-OdysseyMediterranean-Theodore-Strauss/dp/6300273164/ref=sr_1_27/105-94481294689268?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1184591442&sr=1-27
Magic of the Mediterranean 1962; 2,962 ft silent color; supplementary materials: 1,2,3 (EU-91.20.4).
Edited film documents travel aound the Mediterranean. Locales shown include Naples, Pompeii,
Sorrento, Amalfi, Ravello, Positano, and Capri, Italy; Athens, Corinth, Aegean Islands, Rhodes, Kos
Island, Mykonos, and Santorin, Greece; and Cairo and Memphis, Egypt. Archeological sites include the
Oracle of Delphi, Acropolis, and Parthenon in Greece and the pyramid of Cheops, the Sphinx, the step
pyramid of Saqqara, the Great temple of Luxor, Colossi of Memnon, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the
tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen in the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Karnak, and the pyramids of Giza in
Egypt. Also shown are making cameos in Naples, Italy, handicrafts of Greece including embroidery, and
the Egyptian museum and Khan-El-Kahili bazaar in Cairo. Creator: Thayer Soule, travel-lecturer
Turkish Coast of Aegean & Mediterranean (4 mins): Tourism (music w. lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW8zs4L6Wa4
The Mediterranean-- Turkey, Lycia (7 mins): Tourism
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/570421/turkey_mediterranean_lycia/
Twister on the Adriatic: (4 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMyMq1FY0Y&NR=1
Un paseo por Croatia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOw08muhF44&mode=related&search=
Wildfires in GREECE: Summer 2007
September 1: Athens, not safe yet
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-greece-fires.html
August 31:
Pyrgos, the Aftermath
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/world/europe/31greece.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref
=slogin
August 30:
Political Fallout over Fires
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/europe/30greece.html?ref=world
August 29:
Athens
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/world/europe/29greece.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref
=slogin
Government response
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6968048.stm
August 28:
Makistos
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/world/europe/28greece.html?th&emc=th
Eco Costs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6966822.stm
Evia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6966518.stm
August 27: Zaharo
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/europe/27greece.html?fta=y
Efforts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6965337.stm
Arson?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6965666.stm
EU: European Commission’s Disaster Plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6966083.stm
August 26:
NASA satellite image
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14469
Athens
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/europe/26greece.html?fta=y
Olympia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6964345.stm
Eyewitness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6964420.stm
Causes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6964519.stm
August 25:
Brief
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/world/europe/25briefsgreecefires.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=login
Eyewitness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6963726.stm
August `7:
Athens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6950662.stm
August 12: Brief
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED81239F931A2575BC0A96194
8260&fta=y
July 25:
Mediterranean summer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6915157.stm
July 24:
Mediterranean summer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6913152.stm
July 20:
Brief
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0D81431F933A15754C0A9619C
8B63&fta=y
July 12
Greek islands: fire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6896195.stm
June 29: Athens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6252676.stm
June 28
Greek forest fires
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6249962.stm