Classical Matrices of European Culture

Year
0
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
01013222
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical

-theoretical lectures

-reading/viewing of documents for analysis, together with their interpretation by students in class

-oral presentations by students on topics previously presented and to be supplmented with homework.

-reading and review of academic theoretical texts.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand the aspects of Greek and Roman civilization present in the identities of the Western world

- Understand the issues of assimilation and transformation of the classical matricial legacy by Jewish and Christian culture during Late Antiquity and Middle Ages

- Learn the first historical expressions of existing government systems in Europe (Democracy and Republic)

- Interpret visual documents and writings depicting the periods and themes studied (maps, coins, iconography, epigraphy, ancient buildings, sculpture, painting

- Produce an interpretive discourse on aspects of continuity between the old world and contemporary Western cultures

- Identify the aspects of crisis between the old world and contemporary Western cultures

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

From Archaic Greece to the origin of nations in Europe: historical conspectus.

Dynamic time and space: historical milestones in the building of Europe.  The metamorphosis of Europe: physical geography and political history of Europe as fluid realities.

Questioning the concept of classical

The awakening of Archaic Greece.  Signs of recovery

The Polis: characterization of a political system

The Homeric Poems

The Athenian Democracy

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic oikoumene

Roman myths of the foundation and construction of an identity.

The Roman res publica as a political system.

The expansion of Rome. The Lazio. The Italian Peninsula. The Mediterranean basin.

Octavius Caesar Augustus

 Language and literacy in the Roman world.

Roman law and the notion of citizenship.

From Rom to the nations. Reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West.

The genesis of European nations in the new states of the barbarian invasions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paula Cristina Barata Dias

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

S. Settis, Futuro del Classico, Giulio Einaudi Editore.

M.H. da Rocha Pereira, Hélade, Antologia da Cultura Grega, Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 2009.

__________________, Romana, Antologia da Cultura Latina Porto, Edições Asa, 2005.

(Antiguidade Tardia e Idade Média) Colecção de textos organizada pela docente.

Dias, Paula B. 2013. “O legado de Constantino na Identidade da Europa Cristã: dois casos de estudo”.  In Vir Bonus Peritissimus aeque - estudos de homenagem a A. Espírito Santo, 455-463

“Europa”, Cansik H. e Schneider eds., Brill’s New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, t. 3, 206-212.

Bordet, m. Síntese da História Romana, Asa, Porto, 1995

MOSSÉ Cl. Et al, Síntese da História Grega, Porto, Asa, 1994 (1991)

PEREIRA, M. H. da Rocha, Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica, 2 vols, t. 1 Cultura Grega, 10ª ed., 2006, revista e actualizada; t. II Cultura Romana, 3ª ed., 2003, FCG, Lisboa.

ELLUL, J. Histoire des Institutions, t.1-2, L’Antiquité, PUF, Paris, 1979, 5ª ed. (1961).