History of Classical Antiquity

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teachers will make the oral and visual (in the case of the non-written sources) presentation of the themes. The students’ participation in the debate is stimulated by the reading, in Portuguese translation, of the ancient Greek and Latin written sources. Part of this work will be done at home, after the historical contextualization previously made by the teachers, in class.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the main historical milestones of ancient Greece and Rome, according to the themes selected in each edition:

- Describe the problem of the emergence of the Greeks and their expansion, the polis system, as well as the social, political and cultural characteristics of the Hellenistic world.

- Describe the period of the Republic in Rome: conflicts, institutions, territorial expansion;

 - Be able to analyse the conflicts that led to the end of the Republic and the institution of the Principality and its evolution.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The emergence of the Greeks and their expansion

2. The polis system: the ideal of autarcia

3. The Hellenistic Kingdoms...

4. From the monarchy to the consolidation of the republic

5. The Roman expansion

6. Political and social conflicts in the Late Republic

7. From Republic to Empire

8. Evolution and/or decline. 

Head Lecturer(s)

José Luís Lopes Brandão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

BRADLEY, P., Ancient Rome: using evidence. Victoria 1993.

BRANDÃO, J.L. / OLIVEIRA, F., História da Roma Antiga I. Das orgiens à morte de César. Coimbra 2015.

BRANDÃO, J.L. / OLIVEIRA, F., História da Roma Antiga II.Império e romanidade hispânica. Coimbra 2020.

CORNELL, T.J., The beginnings of Rome. Londres 1995.

FERREIRA, J.R., A Grécia Antiga. Sociedade e Política. Lisboa 2004.

FERREIRA, J.R. / LEÃO, D., Dez Grandes Estadistas Atenieneses. Lisboa 2010.

LEÃO, D., A globalização no mundo antigo: do polites ao kosmopolites, Coimbra 2012.

LINTOTT, A., The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford 1999.

MONTEIRO, J.G., Grandes conflitos da História da Europa. Coimbra 2009.

ROLDÁN HERVÁS, J., M. Historia de Roma. Salamanca 1995.

SCULLARD, H., History of the Roman world. 753 to 146 BC. London 1969

SCULLARD, H., From the Gracchi to Nero. London, Routledge, 1982