Townscape of ancient Mediterranean. From from the Greek polis to the cosmopolitan Roman city 1201-OG-EN-TAM

In this course, students will be introduced to the process of ancient city formation. Issues including the terminology of the process of establishing Greek cities will be presented. The formation of urban centres in Italy and the Roman provinces will be presented. Environmental (convenience of land for cultivation, natural resources) or geographical (ease of communication by sea or land) factors influencing the dynamic development of Greek cities will be analysed. The interrelationship between communication conditions (navigational conditions) and the convenience of the area for the construction of a settlement or city on a given stretch of the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts will be presented. The system of relationships between a city and its economic hinterland will be presented in detail. The different ways in which the natural resources of the environment (grain, grapes, olives as well as fishing and cattle breeding) were used to build the economic potential of the major centres of antiquity will be presented. The course will present methods for assessing the economic potential of an area and the importance of this potential for the political development of a centre. The exploitation and use of natural resources such as copper, tin, iron, silver and marble will also be examined. In this context, the process of the development of Greek settlements in areas of particular importance due to their natural resources will be analysed.

Całkowity nakład pracy studenta

(po angielsku) Contact hours with teacher: – participation in discussion seminar – 15 hrs. – consultation – 10 hrs. Self-study hours: – preparation for discussion seminar – 15 hrs; – reading the literature, library and on-line sources – 20 hrs; – independent study (preparing the final paper) – 30 hrs. Altogether: 90 hrs (3 ECTS)

Efekty uczenia się - wiedza

(po angielsku) Student: – W1: one has a structured knowledge of the methodology and theories applied to Mediterranean-Mediterranean archaeology, concerning the so-called Great Greek colonisation and the territorial development of the Roman state (K_W01); – W2:knows and understands the processes of the formation of ancient cities (K_W02); – W3: one has a structured knowledge of ancient geography and the knowledge to analyse and interpret archaeological sources useful for understanding the issues related to the causes of the territorial development of the Greek and Roman culture together with their economic and political role (K_W07); – W4: the student knows and understands the methods of analysis of various sources that constitute the research workshop of the classical archaeologist, and knows the achievements of Greek and Roman culture in the case of townspace (K_W12).

Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności

(po angielsku) Student: – U1: possesses research skills, including the formulation and analysis of research problems, the selection of research methods and tools, the elaboration and presentation of the results, allowing the solution of problems in the fields of science and scientific disciplines relevant to the study of Greek and Roman towns (K_U01).

Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne

(po angielsku) Student: – K1: possesses research skills, including the formulation and analysis of research problems, the selection of research methods and tools, the elaboration and presentation of the results, allowing the solution of problems in the fields of science and scientific disciplines relevant to the study of Greek and Roman towns (K_K02).

Metody dydaktyczne

(po angielsku) Expository teaching methods: – discussion seminar assisted with multimedia presentations; introduction to each topic by a short lecture.

Wymagania wstępne

(po angielsku) None

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Inga Głuszek
Jakub Mosiejczyk

Kryteria oceniania

Assessment methods:
– activity;
– test.

Assessment criteria:
written test: fail – less than 50%; satisfactory (3) – 15 pts (50%); satisfactory plus (3,5) – 18 pts (60%); good (4) – 21 pts (70%); good plus (4,5) – 24 pts (80%); very good (5) – 27 pts (90%).

Praktyki zawodowe

Not applicable

Literatura

Cooley A., Cooley M.G.L., Pompeii and Herculaneum: a sourcebook, London 2014.
Forsythe G., A critical history of early Rome: from prehistory to the first Punic War, Barkeley 2005.
Gates Ch., Ancient cities: the archaeology of urban life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, Abingdon–Oxon 2003.
Grant M., History of Rome, London 1997.
Hansen H., Polis: an introduction to the ancient Greek city-state, Oxford 2006.
Ma J., Polis: a new history of the ancient Greek city-state from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity, Princeton 2004.
Matthews K.D., Cities in the Sand: Leptis Magna and Sabratha in Roman Africa, Chicago 1957.
Nielsen T.H., Yet more studies in the ancient Greek polis, Copenhagen 1997.
Osborne R., The World of Athens. An introduction to classical Athenian culture, Cambridge 2008.
Robinson O.F., Ancient Rome city planning and administration, London 2003.
Shanks M., Art and the Greek city state, Cambridge 1999.
Sympotica, a symposium on the Symposion, ed. O. Murray, Oxford 1990.
Warwick B., Rome in the East: transformation of an Empire, London–New York 2016.
Whitley J., The archaeology of ancient Greece, Cambridge 2001.
Zuiderhoek A., The ancient city, Cambridge 2017.
Nielsen T.H., Yet more studies in the ancient Greek polis, Copenhagen 1997.

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