ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY Ι: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS - POLITICAL THEORY AND IDEOLOGY
| Title | ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Ι: ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΙ ΘΕΣΜΟΙ – ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΙΔΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ / ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY Ι: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS - POLITICAL THEORY AND IDEOLOGY |
| Code | ΙΑΕ501 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | History and Archaeology |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600019273 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Istorías kai Archaiologías 2020-2021
Registered students: 15
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISTORIAS | Specialization Core Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 7 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600250840
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Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
- Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600250840
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Students are expected to
• become familiar with the thematic unit in its entirety
• be able to evaluate different scholarly approaches to the thematic unit
• acquire in-depth knowledge of a special subject within the thematic unit
• develop further their critical and synthetic abilities to produce written work with the use of sources and bibliography
• improve their ability to assess and evaluate historical questions through the construction of appropriate arguments
• become familiar with interdisciplinary approaches tothe thematic unit
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Based on the study of relevant, mainly epigraphic, sources the course aims at examining the formation and function of the institutions, regulating the organization and the external relations of the Ancient Greek states, i.e. city-states (poleis), Leagues, monarchies, as well as defining their political structure, ideology and historical profile.
Keywords
Council, assembly, archons, tyrannis, isonomy, democracy, oligarchy, monarchical, ideology, ruler cult, Leagues, isopolity, sympolity, asylia, proxeny, arbitration, symmachy
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Power-Point and the AUTH e-leaning platform will be used. Communication through emails.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminars | 65 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 95 | ✓ | |||
| Written assigments | 45 | ✓ | |||
| Exams | 5 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 210 |
Student Assessment
Description
Evaluation is based on (a) written exams (50% of the overall grade), followed by (b) oral exams (30%) on a given list of books dealing with the thematic unit, and (c) the submission of a written essay of up to 5,000 words (20%), based on secondary and/or published sources to be delivered by the end of classes. The criteria for assessment include the bibliographical research, the critical approach to the sources used, the quality of writing, and the proper and consistent use of a reference system. A manual for academic essay-writing is available on the Department’s webpage.
Written exams, mostly involving questions that require critical thinking.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
- Written Assignment (Summative)
- Oral Exams (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Fritz Gschnitzer, Ιστορία της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Κοινωνίας, ΜΙΕΤ
Claude Mossé, Πολιτική και Κοινωνία στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα
Additional bibliography for study
V.Ehrenberg, The Greek State, London 1969, 2nd ed.
CPC Acts: Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre (ed. M.H.Hansen).
F.Gschnitzer, Griechische Sozialgeschichte von der mykenischen bis zum Ausgang der klassischen Zeit, 2013 (2.Auflage durch neue Bibliographie erweitert)
F.Gschnitzer (ed.), Zur Griechischen Staatskunde, WBG Darmstadt 1969.
E.Stein-Hölkeskamp, Adelskultur und Poligesellschaft - Studien zum griechischen Adel in Archaischer und Klassischer Zeit, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1989.
P.J.Rhodes, The Athenian Boule, Oxford Universitz Press 1972.
P.J.Rhodes with D.M.Lewis, The Decrees of the Greek States, Oxford 1997.
Chr.Meier, Die Entstehung des Politischen bei den Griechen, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
M.M.Austin-P.Vidal-Naquet, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece-An Introduction, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1973.
Oswyn Murray& Simon Price, The Greek City from Homer to Alexander, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990.
J.A.O., Greek Federal States. Their Insitutions and History, Oxford 1968.
H.Beck, Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4.Jahrhundert v.Chr., Historia Einzelschriften 114, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997.
H.Beck, P.Funke (eds.), Federalism in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge 2015.
J.Ma, Kings, in A.Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Blackwell Companions to Ancient History), Oxford 2004.
P.Bilde, et alii (eds.), Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship, Aarhus 1996.
C.Habicht, Gottmenschentum und griechische Städte, München 1970.
A.Chaniotis, The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers, in A.Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic Wolrd, (Blackwell Companions to Ancient History), Oxford 2004.
W.Burkert, Greek Religion, Oxford 1985
Last Update
08-05-2020
