ROMAN REPUBLIC|POLITICAL IDEAS|INTELLECTUAL HISTORY|ANCIENT HISTORY|IDEOLOGY

This course aims to enable students to analyse the role played by political ideas in the Roman Republic and early Principate and to understand Rome&#039;s place...

Propaganda and Ideology in Rome (HIST0633)

This course aims to enable students to analyse the role played by political ideas in the Roman Republic and early Principate and to understand Rome's place within the study of intellectual history. By the end of the course students should have acquired a good knowledge and understanding of 1) The role played by political ideas in the Roman Republic and early Principate within the context of Roman contacts with the Greek world in the south of Italy and the Greek mainland. 2) The place of Rome within the study of intellectual history 3) The iconography and literary evidence for political ideas in Roman society.

In the long-running debate about the nature of the ancient economy, classical Athens occupies a special place as a relatively complex society with an economy...

The Economy of Classical Athens (HIST0429)

In the long-running debate about the nature of the ancient economy, classical Athens occupies a special place as a relatively complex society with an economy that may have been more ‘modern’ than anything found in other Greek city-states. After an introduction to the theoretical problems and scholarship, the course investigates a series of key aspects of the Athenian economy in the period 450-300 BC, with particular reference to the most important bodies of source material, which each receive a class to themselves. On the basis of a close analysis of these sources and further study of specialist scholarship, the basic patterns of consumption, production, exchange and public finance will be assessed in terms of their scale, complexity and ‘modernity’, before we ultimately turn to the question of how exceptional the classical Athenian economy really was in its time.

The Economy of Classical Athens (HIST0410)