Unit information: Historical Survey: Ancient Greece in 2018/19

Unit name	Historical Survey: Ancient Greece
Unit code	CLAS10035
Credit points	20
Level of study	C/4
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director	Dr. Knippschild
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of Classics & Ancient History
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit will provide a survey of Ancient Greek History, from the Bronze Age (3000 BC) to Roman Greece (AD 200). It will focus on broad questions of change and identity by reviewing Greek political and cultural practices from the Aegean to the Peloponnese, from Asia Minor to Sicily. Students will also reflect on different modes of interaction between city-states, from island trade to conquest and imperialism. The unit will introduce students to the fundamental skills of researching ancient history, and of building up a body of knowledge about different historical periods.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Successful students will be able to:

1. demonstrate familiarity with, and be able to access, discipline-specific resources such as encyclopaedias and historical reference works;
2. synthesise material from reference works in order to explain historically specific information;
3. demonstrate familiarity with the range and diversity of political and cultural practices which comprise Ancient Greek History;
4. discuss how the range and diversity of political and cultural practices over space and time impact on their understanding of change and identity.
5. exhibit appropriate methods of oral and written academic expression, of a standard appropriate to level C.

Teaching Information

1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 2hr workshop

Assessment Information

1 x one-hour quiz (20%) [ILOs 1-3] and 1 x 90-minute exam (80%) [ILOs 2-5]

Reading and References

De Angelis, Franco. 2016. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily. A Social and Economic History. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell

Malkin, Irad. 2011. A Small Greek World. Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Powell, Anton & Hodkinson, Stephen. 2010. Sparta. The Body Politic. Swansea: University of Wales Press

Roisman, Joseph & Worthington, Ian. 2010. A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell