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090037 KU Ancient History and Classical Studies: The everyday life in the Imperial Rome (2015W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 07.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 14.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 21.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 28.10. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 04.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 11.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 18.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 25.11. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 02.12. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 09.12. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 16.12. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 13.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 20.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2
  • Wednesday 27.01. 08:00 - 09:30 Übungsraum Alte Geschichte Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 2

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

How did the city of Rome look like during the Empire? How was it organised? Where did the Romans live? What were the most common occupations and how did they spend their free time? What difficulties did they encounter in urban life? What religious practices did they have?
Latin authors like Juvenal, Martial, Cicero and Pliny sometimes report intentionally and other times not many details about the everyday life.
Equally relevant, especially in understanding the way of life of the lower classes, are both the texts and the iconography of funerary, votive and honorific inscriptions.
Through a contextualisation of these documents, the main aspects of daily life in Rome, with a particular attention to themes like the administration of public places, living standards, demography, religious practices, education, working and free time activities, will be reconstructed.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance, active participation and preparation of the lessons by reading selected texts and literature; 3 written commentaries on literary extracts or inscriptions on one topic of student's own choice.
The commentaries can be written either in English or in German and have to contain from 3000 to 5000 characters each. Further details will be provided during the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Acquisition of methods for the analysis and contextualisation of ancient sources and ability to use them as elements for the reconstruction of the social history of Imperial Rome. Good orientation in the basic bibliography. Development of personal opinions and suggestions on concrete questions with appropriate argumentations. Composition of short, clearly articulated commentaries on ancient literary and epigraphical sources.

Examination topics

Guided reading and commentary of the chosen literary passages and epigraphical texts, either in original language or in translation. Discussion in class.

Reading list

J. Carcopino, Das Alltagsleben im alten Rom zur Blütezeit des Kaisertums, Innsbruck-Wien 1950

F. Kolb, Rom. Die Geschichte der Stadt in der Antike, München 2002

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