Mastering Ancient Greece

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Professor Catharine Edwards
• Tutor: Professor Christy Constantakopoulou
• Assessment: a 1000-word book review (20%) and 4000-4500-word essay (80%)

In this module we explore a range of approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history, looking at literary texts as well as material culture, and considering Greek  interaction with other cultures. 

Indicative syllabus

• Introduction  
• Greek historiography: Herodotus  
• Greek religion  
• Greek democracy, ancient and modern  
• Greek tragedy  
• Philosophy, love and Athenian society: Plato's Symposium  
• Performing Athens: Aristophanes’ Birds  
• The Hellenistic world and Hellenistic ethics  
• Greek inscriptions and religion  
• Inscriptions and political life

In addition to the detailed study of relevant ancient sources, you will explore questions of cultural and historical context, and the major critical discussions of these issues through reading modern scholarship.