Illyrians and Thracians in Pre Roman Time

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introducing students to written and archaeological data regarding Paleobalkan societies in the second half of the I millennium B.C.

Course description: Basic information regarding Illyrians and Thracians based on written classical sources. Short review of material and spiritual culture of Paleobalkan tribes that in the I millennium B.C. inhabited western Balkan region. Defining the boundaries between major Illyrian tribes and their neighboring tribal alliances in the pre roman times (Japodians, Lyburnians, Dalmatians, Illyrians propriae dicti, Autariats, Ardieans, etc.); Overview of material and spiritual culture of Thracian tribes (Odrisians, Beses, Gets, etc.); Short history of how mighty Thracian kingdoms developed from the beginning of the V century B.C. until the arrival of the Celts in Thracia (270 B.C.); Peonians in the Vardar and Strumica valley, and their relation to the northern Greek tribes.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• - STIPČEVIĆ A., Iliri. Zagreb 1974
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• Srejović D., Iliri i Tračani: O starobalkanskim plemenima (priredio V.Jović), SKA, Beograd, 2002
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• Jevtić M., Modern Serbian Archaeology and the Problem of Ethnic Identification. In: Auf der Suche nach Identitäten: Volk-Stamm-Kultur-Ethnos. Internationale Tagung der Universität Leipzig vom 8. – 9. Dezember 2000 (ed. S. Rieckoff, U. Sommer), BAR International Series 1705, 2007, 175-180
• THEODOSSIEV N., North –Western Thrace from the Fifth to First Centuries BC, BAR International Series 859, 2000m (Oxford Press)
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• SIMPOZIJUM O TERITORIJALNOM I HRONOLOŠKOM RAGRANIČENJU ILIRA U PREDRIMSKO DOBA, Centar za balkanološka ispitivanja, Posebna izdanja, knj. IV. (ur.A. Benac), Sarajevo 1964
• ILIRI I ALBANCI, Simpozijum SANU Beograd 1988 (Radovi M. Garašanin, F. Papazoglu)
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• John Wilkes, The Illyrians, Oxford 1992. Prevod: J. Wilkes, Iliri, Laus, Split 2001.
• Miloš Jevtić, Keramika starijeg gvozdenog doba na centralnobalkanskom prostoru, Filozofski fakultet, Centar za arh. istraživanja, knj.2, Beograd 1983.
• Aleksandar Palavestra, Kneževski grobovi starijeg gvozdenog doba na centralnom Balkanu, Balkanološki institut, Posebna izdanja, knj. 19,Beograd 1984.
• ANCIENT GOLD: THE WEALTH OF THE THRACIANS.Treasures from the Republic of Bulgaria. Catalog of exhibition(ed.Ivan Marazov),Harry N.Abrams, New York 1998.