Ancient History - 2nd semester
Code
73205102
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Helena Trindade Lopes
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1)To understand ancient history and to display a deep dominion of of concepts, contents and specific bibliography;
2)To display skills for critically analyzing and interpreting the textual and iconographic sources;
3)To be able to conceive, project, develop and communicate an original research;
4)To be able to produce a research essay which can be submitted to a published on a national or international peer reviewed journal.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1) The ancient myths of creation: the cosmogony and the anthropogony
2) The prophetic texts
3) The sapiential texts and social and political thinking
4) Thinking about the unity of divine and monotheism.
Bibliography
BOTTÉRO, J. e S.N. KRAMER, Lorsque les dieux faisaient l´homme. Mythologie mesopotamienne, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1993.
CARAMELO, Francisco, A Linguagem Profética na Mesopotâmia (Mari e Assíria), Lisboa, Patrimonia, 2002.
DALLEY, Stephanie, Myths from Mesopotamia. Creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.
DENNING-BOLLE, Sara, Wisdom in Akkadian Literature. Expression, Instruction, Dialogue, Leiden, Ex Oriente Lux, 1992.
LÓPEZ, Jesús e SANMARTÍN, Joaquín, Mitología y Religión del Oriente Antiguo I Egipto - Mesopotamia, Sabadell, Editorial Ausa, 1993.
ELIADE, Mircea, Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses, Paris, Payot, 1978.
Teaching method
Theoretical Sessions.
Practical sessions:
Commentary of documents (exercises)
Evaluation method
Presentation and discussion of papers.
-Written essay (80%)
-Oral presentation of the essay (20%)