The syllabus for 2020/21 is given below. We expect the syllabus for 2022/2023 will be very similar. An outline of the assessments for this module is provided at the bottom of the page.

Week 1: No Class (teaching begins on Tuesday Oct 4)

Week 2: Introduction & Why History? (CT & CR)

Week 3: Bronze Age Greece: Minoans & Mycenaeans

Week 4: The "Dark Ages", the Polis & the Alphabet

Week 5: Sanctuaries & Colonies

Week 6: READING WEEK

Week 7: Tyrants & Sparta

Week 8: Archaic Athens & The Persian Wars

Week 9: The Athenian Empire & Athenian Literary Culture

Week 10: The Peloponnesian War & the 4^th century.

Term 1 Seminars

Week 4: Trip - Warwick Modern Records Centre

Week 8: Historiography Exercise

Week 01: What should the history of the Roman Republic look like?

Week 02: Material vs Myth: Writing the history of early Rome

Week 03: Who’s who in the Roman world? An introduction to prosopography (this lecture focuses on preparation for the assessment, including gobbet writing)

Week 04: The Republic: Society and government

Week 05: Rome and the Hellenistic World: Roman expansion and its causes

Week 6: Roman Republican coinage + Roman history from objects

Week 7: The effects of war: the Gracchi and changing Roman culture

Week 08: Marius, Sulla and the Social War

Week 09: When does the Republic fall and the Empire begin? Pompey and Caesar.

Week 10: Topic set by student vote in Week 3 of Term 2

Week 01: Essay writing workshop!

Week 02: How things make history: Classical Greek coinage

Week 03: How things make history: Roman concrete

Assessment:

For students doing the module as a 30 CAT option: Book/Article Review (20%) in term 1, Prosopographical Exercise (20%) in term 2, Essay (50%) in term 3, Attendance (10%).

For students doing CX 116-15 (Introduction to Greek History): Book/Article Review (40%), Essay (50%), Attendance (10%)

For students doing CX 117-15 (Introduction to Roman History): Prosopographical Exercise (40%), Essay (50%), Attendance (10%).