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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major social, economic, political, and religious trends. It also includes discussions on Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history;
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- history
- history
- ancient
- greece
- bronze age
- death
- alexander
- social
- economic
- political
- religious
- trends
- homer
- heroism
- greek
- identity
- hoplite revolution
- city-state
- herodotus
- persia
- empire
- thucydidean rationalism
- peloponnesian war
- platonic constructs
- aristotle
- macedonia
- hellenism
- primary sources
- translation.
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This course elaborates the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the fifth century A.D. The first half of the course covers Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars and provinces; classes, courts, and the Roman revolution; Augustus and the formation of empire. The second half of the co
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- history
- history
- rome
- ancient
- world
- origins
- fifth century a.d.
- kingship
- republican form
- conquest
- italy
- roman expansion
- pyrrhus
- punic wars
- classes
- courts
- roman revolution
- augustus
- empire
- virgil
- vandals
- social
- economic
- political
- religious
- trends
- provinces
- primary sources
- translation
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Focusing on the emperors Augustus and Nero, this course investigates the ways in which Roman emperors used art, architecture, coinage and other media to create and project an image of themselves, the ways in which the surviving literary sources from the Roman period reinforced or subverted that image, and the ways in which both phenomena ha
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- history
- roman
- emperors
- augustus
- nero
- art
- architecture
- coinage
- media
- literary sources
- post-classical
- perceptions
- suetonius
- tacitus
- i
- claudius
- quo vadis
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This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban architecture and the political, social, and economic role of cities in the Greek and Roman world, by analyzing a range of archaeological and literary evidence relevant to the use of space in Greek and Roman cities (e.g. Athens,
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- history
- archaeology
- greece
- rome
- greek
- roman
- city
- urban
- architecture
- political
- social
- economic
- literary
- evidence
- space
- athens
- paestum
- pompeii
- theoretical frameworks
- ancient urbanism
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