History of Ancient Greece - 1st semester
Code
711051163
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Leonor Santa Bárbara
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand the relations between space and time in the world of Ancient Greece and to see this in both diachronic and synchronic perspectives;
b) To become familiar with the principal texts from Ancient Greece and understand them in their historical context;
c) To become familiar with this historical context in its political, social, economic, cultural and religious aspects;
d) To acquire the competencies in oral and written presentations appropriate for the course;
e) To acquire a command of the study skills appropriate for the fullest understaanding of ancient Greek civilisation.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
1.Formation of Greece and the constitution of the Greeks.
2. Greek identity.
3. Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations.
4. The Archaic age: migrations and colonisation; the origins of polis; from monarchy to democracy the sequence of political regimes.
5. The Classical age: diversity in the poleis, Sparta an Athens; the Persian wars; the establishment of Athenian democracy; the League of Delos and the Athenian empire; the Peloponnesian war and the decline of the polis.
6. The Hellenistic age: Macedonia and its rule over Greece; the world of Alexander; the Hellenistic world; the Roman supremacy.
Bibliography
Ferreira, José Ribeiro, A Grécia antiga, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2004 (2ª. ed.).
Ferreira, José Ribeiro, Hélade e Helenos. Génese e evolução de um conceito, Coimbra, INIC/CECHUC, 1992.
Hornblower, Simon, The Greek World (479-323 B. C.), Londres & Nova Iorque, Routledge, 2006 (reimpr.).
Mossé, Claude e Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon, Síntese de história grega (trad. de C.
Martin, Thomas R., Breve história da Grécia clássica. Da Pré-História à época helenística (trad. de Mª. José Figueiredo), Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1998.
Teaching method
Lectures, with analysis and discussion of original texts.
Evaluation method
The evaluation consists in a written essay and a test. The final mark will be the arithmetic mean between the essays mark and the test, counting each 50%.