Lecture in Ancient History I 2900-HAMC-K1-ANHIS
Topics (part by dr hab. prof. ucz. Marek Węcowski):
1. Introductory Lecture:
(a) Methods and organising ideas; the chronological scope: Early Iron Age through Alexander the Great; competing or complementary approaches: uniformity vs. particularisms;
(b) Time and space in a human experience; The geographical setting and the geographical mobility of the Greeks;
2. Greece coming of age: Mycenaean collapse, Early Iron Age till the Geometric times – the origins of the Polis and the foundations of the social mobility of the Greeks;
3. The Euboeans: trade and prospection of the East and West; the Phoenician connection; the alphabet, the aristocratic banquet in a comparative perspective;
4. The Great Colonization and the New World(s) – towards a “small Greek World”: A Greece of networks, local histories and a global approach;
5. The cultural breakthrough: Homer, the Pan-Hellenic Olympus; the polis religion, the Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries; Greek athletics, the aristocratic culture and its implications; The Orientalising Period;
6. The archaic Greek city or archaic Greek cities: citizenship, aristocracy, social order and the tyranny – general trends, regional patterns, local variations;
7. The Spartan Revolution and the Uniqueness of Sparta;
8. Eunomia, isonomia, democracy, and democracies – Before the Persian Wars;
9. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fifth Century;
10. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fourth Century;
11. The Greeks under Arms: Greeks vs. Greeks and Greeks vs. Persians; The period of innovations; Heritage of the Persian Wars;
12. The New Art of War, Diplomacy, and the Pan-Hellenism;
13. Macedon, Philip II, and the Greeks;
14. Towards a new world: the new political order in the Aegean; the New Cultural Paradigm.
Topics (part by prof. dr hab. Adam Ziółkowski)
1. Introduction: geographical setting and chronology, sources and methods.
2. Italy and the Western Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age (10th–8th c. B.C.). Latium and the Latins, the rise of urban communities in Latium.
3. Rome of the kings (8th–6th c. B.C.): an ideal school of historical method or an ideological battlefield? The myth of the origins, the seven kings, the great Rome of the Tarquins, between geomorphology/archaeology and written sources.
4. Early Republic (509–396/390 B.C.): becoming historical. Roman society in the 5th c.; political institutions and the public religion; patricians, plebeians and the conflict of the orders; Rome and its neighbours: the Roman–Latin–Hernician alliance till the conquest of Veii and the Gallic catastrophe.
5. Middle Republic I (390–287 B.C.): the making of the machine of imperial expansion and the conquest of Italy. The socio-economic revolution; the political revolution; the Republican social contract and the birth of imperial mentality.
6. Middle Republic II (287–133 B.C.): Rome the super-power. The conquest of hegemony in the Mediterranean: prelude – the war with Pyrrhos; the Punic Wars and their consequences; the easiest of conquests – Rome and the Hellenistic world; forms of control and exploitation of the Republican empire.
7. Middle Republic: society and state. (a) The profits of the empire and their distribution; new economic opportunities; the symptoms of the incoming crisis – abandonment of land and draft-dodging. (b) The Middle Republic – monarchy, aristocracy or democracy?
8. The Roman revolution and the fall of the Republic (133–42/30 B.C.). (a) The Gracchi brothers and the break of the Republican social contract; the spiral of violence from mass lynching to the first civil war. (b) The Sullan régime: a decaying oligarchy vs. warlords, street-fighters and agrarian unrest; Pompeius vs. Caesar and the second civil war; Caesar the dictator and his murder; the third civil war: Caesarians vs. Caesaricides and the end of the Republic; from triumvirate to monarchy.
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Regular attendance and a brief Q&A test.
No more than three absences are allowed during the semester, of which two need to be made up by additional assignments.
A person who is more than 10 minutes late will be considered as absent.
Literatura
Further Reading:
1. Introductory Lecture: I. MALKIN, ‘Migration and colonization. Turbulence, Continuity, and the Practice of Mediterranean Space (11th-5th centuries BCE), [in:] M. Dabag et al. (eds), New Horizons. Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century (Paderborn 2016), 285-307; R. OSBORNE, Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC (London–New York 2009); C. G. THOMAS, ‘The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 22-40.
2. Greece coming of age: J. N. COLDSTREAM, Geometric Greece (London 2003 [1979]); O. DICKINSON, The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC (London–New York 2006); I. LEMOS, The Protogeometric Aegean: The Archaeology of the Late Eleventh and Tenth Centuries BC (Oxford 2002); A. MAZARAKIS AINIAN, From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples in Early Iron Age Greece (1100–700 B.C.), (Jonsered 1997); I. MORRIS, Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (Cambridge 1987); A. M. SNODGRASS, The Dark Age of Greece (Edinburgh 1971); A. M. SNODGRASS, Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece (Ithaca, NY 2006).
3. The Euboeans: R. JANKO, ‘From Gabii to Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 58.1 (2015), 1–32; R. LANE FOX, Travelling Heroes. In the Epic Age of Homer (New York 2010 [2008]); O. MURRAY, Early Greece (London 1993 [1978]); M. WECOWSKI, The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford 2014).
4. The Great Colonization and the New World(s): M. AUBET, The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade (Cambridge1993); J. BOARDMAN, The Greeks Overseas. Their early colonies and trade (London 1999 [1964]); A. J. DOMÍNGUEZ, ‘The origins of Greek colonization and the Greek polis: some observations’, AWE 10 (2011), 195-207; I. MALKIN, A Small Greek World. Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford 2011); R. OSBORNE, ‘Early Greek colonization? The nature of Greek settlement in the West’, [in:] N. Fisher & H. Van Wees (eds), Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (London–Swansea–Oakville, CT 1998), 251–269; D. Ridgway, The first Western Greeks (Cambridge 1992).
5. The cultural breakthrough: W. BURKERT, Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA 1985); W. BURKERT, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Cambridge, MA–London 1992); C. MORGAN, Athletes and Oracles. The transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century BC (Cambridge 1990); S. MORRIS, Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, NJ 1992); N. PURCELL, ‘Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions’, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 10 (2006), 21-30; M. L. WEST, The east face of Helicon: West Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth (Oxford–New York 1997).
6. The archaic Greek City or archaic Greek cities: J. HALL, A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE (Padstow 2007); R. OSBORNE, Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC (London–New York 2009); K. RAAFLAUB, & H. VAN WEES (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009); H. SHAPIRO, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge 2007); A. SNODGRASS, Archaic Greece. The Age of Experiment (Berkeley–Los Angeles 1980).
7. The Spartan Revolution and the uniqueness of Sparta: S. HODKINSON, ‘The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period’, [in:] L. G. Mitchell & P. J. Rhodes (eds), The development of the polis in archaic Greece. (London–New York 1997), 83-102; M. NAFISSI, ‘Sparta’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 117-137.
8. Eunomia, isonomia, democracy, and democracies: E. ROBINSON, The First Democracies. Early Popular Government outside Athens, (Stuttgart 1997); J. OBER, ‘“I Besieged That Man”: Democracy’s Revolutionary Start’, [in:] K. Raaflaub et al. (eds), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (Berkeley–Los Angeles–London 2007), 83-104.
9. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fifth Century: K. J. DAVIES, Democracy and Classical Greece (Cambridge, MA 1993 [1978]); J. MA, N. PAPAZARKADAS, R. PARKER (eds), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (London 2009); K. RAAFLAUB & D. BOEDEKER (eds), Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in fifth-century Athens (Cambridge, MA 1998); Rhodes, P.J. (ed.), Athenian Democracy (Oxford 2004).
10. Athens: Democracy, Empire, and the Arts – the Fourth Century: B. EDER (ed.), Die athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Vollendung oder Verfall einer Verfassungsform? (Stuttgart 1995); M.H. HANSEN, The Athenian Democracy in the age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology (Oxford–Cambridge, MA 1991); J. OBER, Mass and Elite in democratic Athens. Rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people (Princeton, 1989).
11. The Greeks under Arms and the legacy of the Persian Empire: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VI: Persia, Grece, and the Western Mediterranean, c. 525–479 B.C. (Cambridge2 1990); N. SEKUNDA & A. Hook, Greek Hoplite, 480–323 BC. Weapons, Armour, Tactics (Osprey Military, 2000); H. SINGOR, ‘War and International Relations”, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 585-603.
P. BRIANT, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Winona Lake 2002 [1996]); R. ROLLINGER, ‘Near Eastern Perspectives on the Greeks’, [in:], G. Boys-Stones et al. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford 2009), 32-47; J. WIESHÖFER, ‘Greek and Persians’, [in:] K. Raaflaub & H. Van Wees (eds), A Companion to Archaic Greece (Chichester 2009), 162-185.
12. The New Art of War, Diplomacy, and the Pan-Hellenism: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. IV: The Fourth Century B.C. (Cambridge2 1994); Ph. SABIN, H. van WEES, M. WHITBY (eds), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, vol. I (Cambridge 2007).
13. Macedon, Philip II, and the Greeks: The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. IV: The Fourth Century B.C. (Cambridge2 1994); J. R. ELLIS, Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism (London 1976); N.G.L. HAMMOND, The Macedonian State: Origins, institutions, and history (Oxford 1989).
14. Towards a new world: F.W. WALBANK, The Hellenistic World (London 1981).
General works:
BARRINGER, J.M., The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2014).
CARTLEDGE, P., The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others (Oxford–New York 1993).
DOVER, K. J., Greek Popular Morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle (Indianapolis–Cambridge 1994 [1974]).
DOVER, K. J., Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA 1989 [1978]).
EHRENBERG, V., From Solon to Socrates. Greek History and Civilization during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (London 1968).
GARLAND, R., The Greek Way of Death (Ithaca, NY 2001 [1985]).
HALL, J. M., Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 1997).
HANSEN, M. H. & NIELSEN, T. H., (eds) An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004).
HANSEN, M. H., Polis. An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State (Oxford 2006).
HURWIT, J. M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100–480 B.C. (Ithaca–London 1985).
MA, J., Polis. A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity (Princeton–Oxford 2024).
MORRIS, I. & POWELL, B.B., The Greeks. History, Culture, and Society (Upper Saddle River, NY 2010).
MURRAY, O. & PRICE, S. (eds), The Greek City. From Homer to Alexander (Oxford 1990).
PARKER, R., Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford 2005).
POLLITT, J. J., Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Cambridge 1999 [1974]).
WHITLEY, J., The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2001).
General works by prof. dr hab. Adam Ziółkowski:
Compiling a student-oriented English modern bibliography on Roman history is not easy. Anglo-Saxon historiography – in spite of a number of first-rate monographies – long dragged behind (some would say: still drags behind) its Continental counterparts, and there are no good English textbooks. The present list is a very personal choice of works of different categories broadly covering Rome’s political, social and economic history from the Early Iron Age beginnings (10th century B.C.) to the sudden near collapse of the greatest empire the Western oikumene has ever seen in the 3rd century A.C.
Cambridge Ancient History2, Cambridge. 7.2: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C. (1990), 8: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C. (1989), 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146 – 43 B.C. (1994), 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C. – A.D. 69 (1996), 11: The High Empire, A.D. 70 – 192 (2000); 12: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193 – 337 (2005). (classic, all-embracing, very uneven)
M. Beard, J. North, S. Price, Religions of Rome, Cambridge 1998. (indispensable for English-speakers though overpraised: too little substance, too much modern talk)
P. A. Brunt, The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays, Oxford 1988. (epoch-making)
T. J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome. Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC), London–New York 1995. (the best you can find in English)
M. Crawford, The Roman Republic, Glasgow 1978. (very good, a bit too concise)
P. Garnsey, R. Saller, The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture, Berkeley–Los Angeles 1987. (very good but slightly dated)
M. Gelzer, Caesar, Politician and Statesman, Oxford 1968. (originally published in 1921 but still the best)
W. V. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome: 327 – 70 B.C., Oxford 1985. (revolutionary, at least in the so-called Western historiography)
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz, Continuity and Change in Roman Religion, Oxford 1979. (a bird’s eye view of problem signalled in the title)
J. Linderski, The Roman Questions. Selected Papers, Stuttgart 1995. (includes some of the most important texts ever written on Republican Rome)
A. K. Michels, The Calendar of the Roman Republic, Princeton 1967. (the best introduction to the vilest calendar humanity ever devised)
F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World, Ithaca NY 1977. (grand and irreplaceable)
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