Cultural and Mentalities History in Antiquity
Code
722051258
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Learn to relate the different spatial and temporal dimensions inherent to Antiquity and understand them both in a synchronic and diachronic perspective;
b) Know the main and most current historiographical interpretations relating the studied themes;
c) Know the major historical documents and be able to analyze and interpret them, understanding them in their historical context;
d) Know the politic, social, economic, cultural and religious context relating to Antiquity;
e) Develop oral and written skills, integrating vocabulary and a conceptual discourse appropriate to the discipline;
f) Know the most important problematic and cultural expressions that characterizes man in Antiquity;
g) Acquire knowledge and skills that enable a deeper study of cultural issues relating to Antiquity.
Prerequisites
none
Subject matter
Pharaonic Egypt
1-Structuring og thought
1.1.Observe, reflect and create
1.2.Repetition: the ritualization
2-Everyday life modes
2.1. City and the house
2.2. Hygiene and fashion
2.3. Food
2.4. Amusements: games and sports
2.4. Sexuality
2.5. Work
3- Education
3.1. Types of schools
3.2. The teachers
3.3. Formation
4-The Arts
4.1. Visual arts
4.2. Literature
4.3. Music
4.4. Dance
5 Sciences
5.1.Fundaments
5.2. Medicine
5.3.Mathematics
5.4.Astronomy
Bibliography
CLAGGET, M., Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, 3 vols., Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 19891999.
KINNEY, L., Dance, Dancers and the Performance Cohort in the Old Kingdom, Oxford, BAR, 2008.
LOPES, M.H.T., \"Os Prazeres no Antigo Egipto\" in Estudos Orientais IX - Os Prazeres no Médio Oriente, Lisboa, Instituto Oriental, 2006.
LOPES, M.H.T., A Produção Literária no Egipto antigo as palavras de Thot ao serviço dos homens in O reino, as ilhas e o mar oceano estudos em homenagem ao Prof. Doutor A. Teodoro de Matos, vol. I, Lisboa, CHAM, 2007.
LOPES, M.H.T., A educação urbana no Egipto Antigo in Olhares sobre a História. Estudos oferecidos a Iria Gonçalves. Lisboa, Caleidoscópio, 2009.
Teaching method
- Exposition of the syllabus in theorical and practical lessons using powerpoints.
- Didactic support in summaries (syntheses), powerpoints, documents, etc.
- Comment on iconographic and textual sources in practical lessons. Debates in the sequence of films or workshops.
Evaluation method
Three written evaluation elements:
one test and two group works;
oral presentation of the elaborated works with evaluation on the individual accomplishment.