Unit name | Historical Survey: Ancient Rome |
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Unit code | CLAS10036 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Edwin Shaw |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Classics & Ancient History |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will provide a survey of Ancient Roman History, from the origins of the city (8th century BC) to the Flavian dynasty (AD 100). It will focus on broad questions of colonialism, imperialism, and civic identity by reviewing Rome’s changing political infrastructure alongside its expansion through the Italian peninsula and across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The unit will develop students’ skills of researching ancient history through primary sources, and of building up a body of knowledge about different historical periods.
Successful students will be able to:
1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 2hr workshop
1. 600 word commentary on a selection of primary sources relevant to a specific historical topic, with appropriate contextualising. 20% [assessing ILOs 1, 2, 5]
2. 90 minute exam with factual and interpretative components. (80%) [assessing ILOs 1, 3, 4, 5]
Alston, Richard. 2015. Rome’s Revolution: death of the Republic, and birth of the Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cornell, T.J. 1995. The Beginnings of Rome. Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars. London: Routledge
Millar, Fergus. 1970. The Emperor in the Roman World. London: Duckworth
Mouritsen, Henrik. 2017. Politics in the Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press