Syllabus
Week 1: No Class (teaching begins on Tuesday Oct 4)
Week 2: Introduction & Why History? (CT & CR)
Week 3: Bronze Age Greece: Minoans & Mycenaeans
Week 4: The Polis and the Alphabet
Week 5: Sanctuaries & Colonies
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7: Tyrants & Sparta
Week 8: Archaic Athens & Democracy
Week 9: Athens & Persia
Week 10: The Peloponnesian War
Term 1 Seminars
Week 4: Assessment Preparation Session
Week 8: Historiography Exercise
Week 01: The mythical beginnings of Rome / Roman memorial culture
Week 02: Material vs Myth: Writing the history of early Rome
Week 03: Who鈥檚 who in the Roman world? An introduction to prosopography (this lecture focuses on preparation for the assessment, including gobbet writing)
Week 04: The Republic: The Ronan Constitution and Magistracies
Week 05: Roman expansion and its causes
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: The Gracchi / Cato the Elder
Week 08: Marius, Sulla and the Social War
Week 09: Pompey the Great / Slavery in the Republic
Week 10: Julius Caesar and the First Triumvirate / Slavery in the Republic
Term 3
Week 01: Essay writing workshop
Week 02: First year excursion
Week 03: Drop in sessions for essay assistance
Assessment:
For students doing the module as a 30 CAT option: Article Review (20%) in term 1, Prosopographical Exercise (20%) in term 2, Essay (50%) in term 3, Attendance (10%).
For students doing CX 116-15 (Introduction to Greek History): Article Review (40%), Essay (50%), Attendance (10%)
For students doing CX 117-15 (Introduction to Roman History): Prosopographical Exercise (40%), Essay (50%), Attendance (10%).