Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Handbook 2021-22 ...



Classics, Ancient History & ArchaeologyModule Descriptions 2021-22Level I (i.e. 2nd Yr.) ModulesPlease be aware that all modules are subject to availability. If you have any questions about the administration of the modules, please contact us at calincomingexchangemodules@contacts.bham.ac.uk. For many of these modules, some experience of studying Ancient History & Archaeology and Classics may be required, and you should remember this when choosing your modules. If there is another module that you need to have studied before taking this, it will be stated in the module description. Please note that at the time this document has been prepared (April 2021) the following information is provisional, and there may be minor changes between now and the beginning of 2021/22 academic year. Please note the following:Each of the modules are worth 20 credits.Options are usually assessed by a 4000 word essay. If an option has a different form of assessment, it will be stated below. Please note that there are different assessments for language modules.SEMESTER 2 MODULESThinking AthenianMODULE CODE: 27272CREDIT VALUE: 20ASSESSMENT METHOD: 4000 word essaySEMESTER: 2 (Spring term only)DESCRIPTIONThis module will look at Athenian attitudes to a variety of issues including: bravery, leisure, sexuality, politics, religion, warfare, money, and imperialism. It will also focus closely on the Athenian tendency towards the “othering” of non-elite male groups such as women, slaves, and foreigners, and even the poor. Ultimately we will be aiming to answer the question of whether the Athenians were peculiar in how they thought about the world. There is a particular stress in this module on empathy, i.e. trying to understand how the Athenians viewed their world in a very different way from the way we view ours. It is precisely the differences that make the effort interesting. For further information, please contact the current module lead, Dr Andrew Bayliss: a.bayliss@bham.ac.ukRepublican and Imperial RomeMODULE CODE: 36038CREDIT VALUE: 20ASSESSMENT METHOD: 4000 word essaySEMESTER: 2 (Spring term only)DESCRIPTIONThis module will examine Roman society from the last century of the Roman Republic to the third century AD – the time when the Roman empire was at its height, when huge building projects expressed the wealth and confidence and when one could travel from northern Britain to Iraq without leaving Roman control. A central question will be how the Roman political system coped with the effects of having become the dominant power in the Mediterranean, and the internal, social strains which intensified as a result. The module will also examine the power structures of the empire: the state under Augustus; imperial rule – Caligula, Nero, and Hadrian; imperial women; imperialism and conquest; and imperial cult.Students will gain a thorough grounding in the primary sources for this period (including the writings of Cicero, Caesar and Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius, as well as other material, including epigraphical and archaeological evidence where appropriate).For further information, please contact the current module convenors, Dr Gareth Sears; g.m.sears@bham.ac.uk or Dr Henriette van der Blom; H.VanDerBlom@bham.ac.ukMatrons and Monsters: Women in Rome and ByzantiumMODULE CODE: 36039CREDIT VALUE: 20ASSESSMENT METHOD: 1000 word commentary (30%) and a 3500 word essay (70%)SEMESTER: 2 (Spring term only)DESCRIPTIONThis module focuses on the representation of women in the Roman world from the late Republic to the Byzantine empire, and on theoretical approaches used by scholars to examine these representations. Primary sources will include literary texts, letters, historiographical accounts, as well as material objects such as toys and amulets. Themes will include for instance: women’s sexual and reproductive lives; women as patrons; women as authors; women’s asceticism and stoicism; women and magic/superstition.For more information please contact the current module convener, Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos:?e.m.theodorakopoulos@bham.ac.uk?For information regarding the Byzantine content please contact Dr Dan Reynolds?D.K.Reynolds@bham.ac.uk ................
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