Modules
Ancient Sources Material Evidence: Building Communities in Archaic Greece (CLA1358)
Staff | Professor Lynette Mitchell - Convenor |
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Credit Value | 15 |
ECTS Value | 7.5 |
NQF Level | 4 |
Pre-requisites | None |
Co-requisites | None |
Duration of Module | Term 2: 11 weeks; |
Module aims
- You will learn how to analyse, evaluate and use material culture, but also literary texts and inscriptions as sources for understanding the ways in which the peoples of the Aegean rebuilt their communities.
- You will also explore the ways in which these communities faced the challenges and the internal and external threats that confronted them.
ILO: Module-specific skills
- 1. Describe and evaluate the principle structures, institutions and cultural developments of the archaic Greek world
- 2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the variety and range of responses to common issues and crises of archaic Greece
- 3. Demonstrate a basic understanding of how and why the communities of the Aegean formed in the way that they did in the archaic period
ILO: Discipline-specific skills
- 4. Use, analyse and evaluate material culture, literary texts and inscriptions as historical sources
- 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the limitations of different types of evidence for our understanding of particular aspects of the ancient world
- 6. Demonstrate basic academic and library skills specific to Classics and Ancient History
ILO: Personal and key skills
- 7. Demonstrate independent study skills in guided research and the presentation of findings
- 8. Select and organise relevant material and present this in a coherent argument
- 9. Manage your own time and meet deadlines
Syllabus plan
Whilst the content may vary from year to year, it is envisioned that it will cover some or all of the following topics:
- the polis
- Orientalism
- tyranny and kingship
- religion and temples
- warfare
- the social and political crisis of the archaic period
- the Greeks and Persians
Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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27 | 123 | 0 |
Details of learning activities and teaching methods
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 5 | 5 x 1 hour seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 123 | Independent study |
Formative assessment
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Contribution to discussion | Weekly | 1-9 | Oral and/or written |
Summative assessment (% of credit)
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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60 | 40 | 0 |
Details of summative assessment
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay assignment | 60 | 2000 words | 1-9 | Mark and written comments |
Source analysis test | 40 | 1 hour | 1-9 | Mark and written comments |
Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay assignment | Essay assignment | 1-9 | Referral/Deferral period |
Source analysis test | Source analysis test | 1-9 | Referral/Deferral period |
Re-assessment notes
Deferral – if you miss an assessment for certificated reasons judged acceptable by the Mitigation Committee, you will normally be either deferred in the assessment or an extension may be granted. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.
Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 40%) you will be required to submit a further assessment as necessary. If you are successful on referral, your overall module mark will be capped at 40%.
Indicative learning resources - Basic reading
Basic reading:
Core set texts:
- Herodotus, The Histories (transl. R. Waterfield), Oxford University Press (World's Classics), Oxford, 1998.
- Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, transl. M.L. West. Oxford University Pres (World's Classics), Oxford, 2008.
- The Athenian Constitution (transl. P. J. Rhodes), Penguin, London, 1984.
- Greek Lyric Poets (transl. M. West), Oxford University Press (World's Classics), Oxford, 1999.
- Course materials on ELE
Other recommended reading:
- R. Osborne, Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC, 2nd edition, Routledge, London, 2009.
- L.G. Mitchell and P.J. Rhodes (eds.), The development of the polis in archaic Greece, Routledge, London, 1997.
- A. Snodgrass, The dark age of Greece: an archaeological survey of the eleventh to the eighth centuries BC, 2nd edition, Edinburgh 2000.
- A. Snodgrass, Archaeology and the emergence of Greece, Ithaca (N.Y.) 2006.
- H.A. Shapiro, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.
Module has an active ELE page?
Yes
Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources
Available as distance learning?
No
Origin date
2009
Last revision date
12/07/2020
Key words search
the polis, migration, community, law, religion