Ancient History
Code: 106846 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Archaeology | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Isaias Arrayas Morales
- Email:
- isaias.arrayas@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
Any Ancient History textbook published in the last 10 years can be a good starting point for the subject.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This course will analyze the main political, social and economic processes of ancient civilizations. It will explain how the main political and social models that emerged throughout Antiquity were generated and developed. To achieve our goal we will study the political, social and economic models of the Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds.
Learning Outcomes
- CM02 (Competence) Assess the potential of certain findings for preservation and adaptation to a wider audience.
- CM03 (Competence) Preserve historical archaeological materials to provide a fair, ethical vision of societies in the past.
- KM05 (Knowledge) Match materials with their corresponding period to recognise their chronology and their function within an archaeological context.
- SM04 (Skill) Apply historical knowledge to explain the archaeological remains at a certain historical site.
- SM05 (Skill) Analyse materials from different periods to associate them with specific activities of a historical moment.
- SM06 (Skill) Describe in written or oral form the result of the interpretation of certain materials in a specific archaeological structure.
Content
1.- The Ancient History. Discipline and chronological limits.
2.- The origins of the ancient states: Mesopotamia and Egypt in the third and second millennium.
3.- Geopolitical changes in the Ancient Near East in the first millennium.
4.- The birth of the Greek world. The pólis: Sparta and Athens.
5.- From the Greco-Persian Wars to the Peloponnesian War.
6.- The Hellenism: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kingdoms.
7.- The origins of Rome. The monarchy.
8.- The Roman Republic and the conquest of the Mediterranean.
9.- The crisis of the Roman Republic.
10.- The Principate. From Augustus to the Severan dynasty.
11.- The Dominate. From the crisis of the third century AD at the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 41 | 1.64 | |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Classroom practices | 13 | 0.52 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Study of the course documents, and commentary of sources and maps | 79 | 3.16 |
- Attendance to the lectures led by the teacher.
- Attendance to classroom practice sessions led by the teacher.
- Visits to museums/sites.
- Comprehensive reading of texts and interpretation of cartographies, graphics, tables, and archaeological documents.
- Carrying out reviews, works, and analytical comments.
- Personal study.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Assessement Work. | 30% | 7 | 0.28 | CM02, CM03, KM05, SM04, SM05, SM06 |
| Partial Exam (Ancient Near East). | 35% | 5 | 0.2 | CM02, KM05, SM04, SM05, SM06 |
| Partial Exam (Classical World). | 35% | 5 | 0.2 | CM02, KM05, SM04, SM05, SM06 |
The evaluation will be done from three notes:
- Continuous Assessment Work (30%): A Continuous Assessment activity will be proposed, to be carried out during the course, where students will have to study some specific aspect of the Ancient World.
- Partial Exam 1 (Ancient Near East) (35%): A partial exam (dedicated to Near Eastern civilizations and Pharaonic Egypt) will be carried out during class time, which will consist of developing two topic-questions, to choose from four options. It could also incorporate a test question section.
- Partial Exam 2 (Classical World) (35%): A second partial exam (dedicated to the ancient Greece and Rome) will be carried out at the end of the course, during class time, with the same running as the first one.
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that the evaluation activities cannot be done in person, their format will be adapted (maintaining their weighting) to the possibilities offered by the UAB’s virtual tools. Homework, activities and class participation will be done through forums, wikis and / or exercise discussions through Teams, ensuring that all students can access them.
The possibility of taking a "Single Assessment" is offered. This option assumes a single evaluation date, but not a single evaluation activity. Therefore, the "Single Assessment" will be done from the same activities as the Continuous Assessment:
- Final written work (30%): A practical activity equivalent to that contemplated in the Continuous Assessment will be proposed, on the established assessment date.
- Ancient Near East Exam (35%): A Exam of two questions-topics to be developed, to be chosen from four, on the Ancient Near East will be carried out on the established assessment date, which could include a section of test questions.
- Classical World Exam (35%): A Exam of two questions-topics to be developed, to be chosen from four, on the ancient Greece and Rome will be held on the established assessment date, which could include a section of test questions.
Single Assessment exercises may coincide with dates reserved for Continuous Assessment. The same assessment method as Continuous Assessment will be used.
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
This subject entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.
Bibliography
ALVAR, J. et alii (1994), Manual de Història Universal. 2 Història Antigua, Historia 16. Madrid.
BRADLEY, K. (1998), Esclavitud y sociedad en Roma, Península, Barcelona.
BRAVO, G. (1994), Història del mundo antiguo. Una introducción crítica, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
BRODRICK, M., MORTON, A.A. (2001), Diccionario básico de la Arqueología Egipcia, Ediciones Obelisco, Barcelona.
CHRISTOL, M., NONY, D. (1992), De los orígenes de Roma a las invasiones bárbaras, Akal, Madrid.
CORNELL, T.J. (1999), Los orígenes de Roma. C, 1000-264 a.C., Crítica, Barcelona.
CRAWFORD, M. (1981), La República romana, Taurus, Madrid.
DE LA VILLA, J. (ed.) (2004), Mujeres de la Antigüedad, Alianza, Madrid.
DOMINGUEZ MONEDERO, A. et alii (1999), Historia del mundo clásico a través de sus textos. 1- Grecia, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
FORNIS, C. (2016), Esparta. La historia, el cosmos y la leyenda de los antiguos espartanos, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla.
GARCIA MORENO, L. et alii (1999), Historia del mundo clásico a través de sus textos. 2- Roma, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
GARNSEY, P., SALLER, R. (1991), El Imperio romano. Economía, sociedad y cultura, Crítica, Barcelona.
GIARDINA, A. (ed.) (1991), El hombre romano, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
KINDER, H.; HILGEMANN, W. (2007), Atlas Histórico Mundial: de los orígenes hasta nuestros días, Akal, Madrid.
LIVERANI, Mario, (1995), El Antiguo Oriente: historia, sociedad y economía, Crítica, Barcelona.
LÓPEZ BARJA, P., F.J. LOMAS, (2004), Historia de Roma, Akal, Madrid.
MOSSÉ, C.(1987), Historia de una democracia: Atenas, Akal, Madrid.
PÉREZ LARGACHA, A. (2006), Historia antigua de Egipto y del Próximo Oriente, Akal, Madrid.
PINA POLO, F. (1999), La crisis de la República (133-44 aC), Síntesis, Madrid.
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SANMARTÍN, J., SERRANO, J.M. (1998), Historia antigua del Próximo Oriente: Mesopotamia y Egipto, Akal, Madrid.
SHIPLEY, G. (2001), El Mundo griego después de Alejandro : 323-30 a.C., Crítica, Barcelona.
VEYNE, P. (2009), El imperio grecorromano, Akal, Madrid.
(*) To cite bibliography, see: "Com citar i elaborar la bibliografia: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudia-iinvestiga/com-citar-i-elaborar-la-bibliografia-1345708785665.html".
Software
Virtual campus (Moodle).
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |