Classical Antiquity
Objectives
.Identification of the main historical and geographic evolutions of the Greek and Roman worlds.
.Understanding of the social, political, religious and economic universe between the Late Bronze Age and the Classical Age within the Greek area.
.Understanding of the Helenistic changes in the Greek universe.
.Understanding of the social, political, religious and economic universe for the formation and evolution of the Roman world.
.Understanding of the historical dynamics of the Roman expansionism and the Imperial "globalised world".
.Understanding of Late Antique changes within the western Roman Empire and their legacy in eastern Roman Empire.
General characterization
Code
01110089
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
José Carlos da Costa Quaresma
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- AMOURETTI, M.-C.; RUZÉ, F. (1993) – O mundo grego antigo. Dos palácios de Creta à conquista romana. Lisboa: Publicações Dom Quixote.
- CAMERON. A. (1998) – El mundo mediterráneo en la Antigüedad Tardía. 395-600.Barcelona: Crítica.
- CENTENO, R. M. S.; et Al. (1997) - Civilizações Clássicas. II (Roma). Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
- FERREIRA, J. R. (1996) - Civilizações Clássicas. I (Grécia). Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
- FINLEY. M. I., 1970 [1990] – Grécia Primitiva: Idade do Bronze e Idade Arcaica. São Paulo: Martins Fontes
- GRIMAL, P. (1971) - La Civilisation Romaine. Paris: Armand Colin.
- JAEGER, W. (1957[1993]) – Paideia: los ideales de la cultura griega. Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- ROCHA PEREIRA, M. H. (1988) – Estudos de História da cultura clássica. I (Cultura grega). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
- ROCHA PEREIRA, M. H. (1988) – Estudos de História da cultura clássica. II (Cultura romana). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
- ROLDÁN HERVÁS, J. M., ed. (1993 [2002]) - História de Roma. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad.
- WARD-PERKINS, B. (2005) – A queda de Roma e o fim da civilização. Aletheia.
- WOOLF, G. (2015) - Roma: A História de um Império. Lisboa: Casa das Letras.
Teaching method
This curricular unit is eminently theoretical, but has a practical component for contact with historical sources. The historical component is taught in an explanatory way, with the support of powerpoints that include the main ideas under discussion and supporting images of a geographical nature. Selected images of historical sources or material culture are also used.
In addition to this theoretical component, classes may include guided reading and free discussion of selected texts from Greek and Roman sources.
Finally, study visits are organised: the Pharmacy Museum (to discuss Greek vases and their iconography) and the Roman villa of Odrinhas (to discuss a Roman housing model).
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Written test (presencial)(50%), Written test (presencial)(50%)
Subject matter
1. Greece
- The Bronze Age
- The Archaic Period
- Homer and Hesiod
- Formation and evolution of the Polis. Colonial expansion
- Formation and evolution of the polis. The religious universe
- The Classical Period
- The 5th century BC. Athens
- The 5th century BC. The Peloponnesian War
- The 4th century BC. Political and economic changes
- Hellenistic Age
2. Rome
- The Etruscan period and the Roman monarchy
- Republican period
- Imperial period. Principate
- The 1st and 2nd centuries AD: from Augustus to the Severi
- Political, social, economic and provincial structure
- Empire in crisis? The military anarchy of the 3rd century
- Imperial period. Dominate
- The political and economic revival in the 4th century AD. Late society
- The consolidation of Christianity
- External pressure and the end of the Western Roman Empire. The continuation to the East
- The Byzantine Empire