Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Key literary, visual and material sources that provide evidence for Greek, Roman and Byzantine history
- Historical problems and questions raised by different types of primary sources from diverse contexts within the ancient world
- The latest research on the specific primary sources under consideration including application of digital technologies to dissemination and study
- Different academic approaches to analysis of primary sources from the ancient world
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Evaluate critically the methodological approaches used by scholars working on the ancient world
- Identify and evaluate different historical interpretations of the ancient world
- Express familiarity with and interpret critically a variety of primary sources from the ancient world
- Understand how major interpretations of ancient sources develop and change
- Understand the interplay between historical sources and interpretations of them
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Organise and structure material to write and present confidently
- Use a range of perspectives in problem-solving
- Critically analyse a diverse range of source material
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Follow-up work | 10 |
Seminar | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 15 |
Lecture | 12 |
Tutorial | 1 |
Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 60 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Hornblower, S (2002). The Greek World 479-323 BC. London: Methuen.
Maas, M (2000). Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge.
Cornell, T.J (1995). The Beginnings of Rome. London: Routledge.
Sedley, D (2003). Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP.
Kraus, C.S. and A.J. Woodman (1997). Latin Historians. Cambridge: CUP.
Stevenson, J. and W.H.C. Frend (1987). A New Eusebius: documents illustrating the history of the Church to AD 337. London: SPCK.
Rohrbacher, D (2002). The historians of late antiquity. London: Routledge.
Crawford, M (1992). The Roman Republic. London: Fontana.
Erskine, A., (ed) (2003). A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gill, M.L. and P. Pellegrin (eds) (2006). A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Elsner, J (1996). Art and Text in Roman Culture. Cambridge: CUP.
Rajak, T (1983). Josephus: the historian and his society. London: Duckworth.
Kleiner, D (1992). Roman Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mitchell, M.M and F.M. Young (eds) (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 1: Origins to Constantine. Cambridge: CUP.
Goodman, M (1997). The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180. London: Routledge.
Beard, M. and J. Henderson (2001). Classical Art from Greece to Rome. Oxford: OUP.
Gill, C (1995). Greek Thought. Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics. Oxford: OUP.
Walbank, F.W (1992). The Hellenistic World. London: Fontana.
Wells, C (1992). The Roman Empire. London: Fontana.
Shipley, G (2000). The Greek World after Alexander 323-30 BC. London: Routledge.
Cameron, A (1993). The Later Roman Empire. London: Fontana.
Brown, P (1993). The making of late antiquity. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Cameron, A (1993). The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, AD 395-600. London: Routledge.
Marincola, J (1997). Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. Cambridge: CUP.
Woodman, A.J (1988). Rhetoric in Classical Historiography. London: Areopagitica Press.
Champion, C.B., (ed.) (2004). Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources. Oxford: Blackwell.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Commentary exercise | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Commentary exercise | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External