Weapons and Societies: Pre-Classic World

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching of this course is based on theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, supported by iconographic materials, analysis of contemporary texts, group work, readings and individual work, with the presentation and discussion of issues arising from those works.

Learning Outcomes

The student is expected to understand and contextualize the evolution of military processes practiced in the Ancient Middle and Near East from the analysis of models for each specific theme to be developed, taking into account the specificities of the available sources.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Warfare in the Assyrian-Babylonian world

2. War in the mountains: Scythes, Cymerians and Urarteus

3. The wars of the Persians: Achaemenids, Sassanids and Parthians

4. War and mixed solutions - Babylon

5. The siege warfare in Phoenicia

6. The war in the Egyptian coast: the Sea Peoples

7. War in Pharaonic Egypt

8. Egipt and the conflicts with Nubia

9. The war in Israel and Samaria

10. The Ptolemies and Hellenistic warfare

 

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. WISE, Terence, Ancient Armies of the Middle East, London, Osprey, 1995.

2. SANTOS, A. J. Ramos dos, «Aspectos sócio-económicos da guerra na Mesopotâmia», A Guerra na Antiguidade, Lisboa, Caleidoscópio/CHUL, 2006, pp. 33-53.

3. GARELLI, Paul, Le Proche Orient Asiatique. Des Origines aux invasions dês Peuples de la Mer, Paris, P.U.F.,1969.

4. GARELLI, P.; NIKIPROWETZKY, V., Le Proche Orient Asiatique. Les Empires Mésopotamiens. Israel, Paris,P.U.F., 1974.

5. ARAÚJO, Luís, «A Batalha de Kadesh», in A Guerra na Antiguidade, Lisboa,Caleidoscópio/CHUL, 2006, pp. 55-102