Postgraduate Course: Hellenistic Court and Society (PGHC11182)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course offers an introduction to the key themes and approaches in the study of the Hellenistic world. The emphasis is on the evidence and the problems of interpretation. |
| Course description |
Alexander III of Macedon's conquest of the Persian empire initiated major changes in the eastern Mediterranean, bring the whole area under the control of Macedonian rulers. But it was not simply a change of ruler. Greeks arrived in their thousands to inhabit these newly-acquired territories, living in the new Greek cities founded by Alexander and his successors, centres of Greek culture in an alien land. These seminars explore key themes (such as monarchy, the polis, democracy, the court, ethnic identity, intellectual culture) through different types of evidence (epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, historiography, literature).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning the Hellenistic world
- an ability to analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship concerning the development and character of the Greek East after Alexander and relevant primary source materials (inscriptions, papyri, literature, archaeology)
- the ability to develop and sustain original scholarly arguments in oral and written form by independently formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence considered in the course
- originality and independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers; and a considerable degree of autonomy
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Reading List
Austin, M. 2006. The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest. 2nd ed. Cambridge
Bugh, G. (ed.) 2006. Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Cambridge
Erskine, A. 2003 (ed.) A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford
Erskine, A. and Llewellyn-Jones. L. (eds) 2011. Creating a Hellenistic World, Swansea
Bulloch, A. W. etc. (ed.) 1993. Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, 265-86
Ma, J. 2013. Statues and Cities. Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World. Oxford
Martzavou, P. and Papazarkadas, N. 2013. The Epigraphy of the Post-Classical Polis. Oxford
McLean, B. H. 2002. Introduction to Greek epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman periods from Alexander the Great down to the reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337), Ann Arbor
Mørkholm, O. 1991. Early Hellenistic Coinage from the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamaea (336-188 BC), Cambridge
Ogden, D. 2002. The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives. Swansea
Shipley, G. 2000. The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC. London
Walbank, F. and Astin, A. (eds), 1984. Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., vol. 7.1: The Hellenistic World. Cambridge |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | HellenisticCourt&Society |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Erskine
Tel: (0131 6)50 3591
Email: Andrew.Erskine@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel: (0131 6)50 3782
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk |
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