2024
Societies and Cultures Classic
Name: Societies and Cultures Classic
Code: HIS12102L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Archeology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
. To learn and to evaluate the historical processoccurred within the studied geographical frame;
. To integrate the contribution of Greco-Roman civilization on European culture and identity;
. To learn the diachronic evolution of Greek and Roman cultural structure.
. To integrate the contribution of Greco-Roman civilization on European culture and identity;
. To learn the diachronic evolution of Greek and Roman cultural structure.
Contents
Key concepts: Classicism, Myth, Identity. Sources and geographical framework
I-Greece
-Minoan Greece -The Mycenaean Greece.
-The Dark Ages: The world of Homer and the founding myths
-The Archaic Period.
-The Classical Age: from the oikos to the polis. The emergence of city-states and the renewal of
identities.The formation of political programs. The Hellenic Wars and the crisis of the polis.
-The end of classicism. The Hellenism.
II. Rome
-Italy before Rome.
-The city of Rome: from the villages to the Urbs.
-The Roman Republic.The patrician and plebeian Res Publica:origins of a new political system. Political
institutions: the evolution of the written law. The Roman Republic until the Punic Wars.The foreign
policy during the Punic Wars: Carthage and Iberia.The conquest of the East.
-The Imperium.between Augustusand the Severi. The crisis of the third
century and the military anarchy. Causes of decay of Rome. Christianity and the changes in the world of
Late Antiquity.
I-Greece
-Minoan Greece -The Mycenaean Greece.
-The Dark Ages: The world of Homer and the founding myths
-The Archaic Period.
-The Classical Age: from the oikos to the polis. The emergence of city-states and the renewal of
identities.The formation of political programs. The Hellenic Wars and the crisis of the polis.
-The end of classicism. The Hellenism.
II. Rome
-Italy before Rome.
-The city of Rome: from the villages to the Urbs.
-The Roman Republic.The patrician and plebeian Res Publica:origins of a new political system. Political
institutions: the evolution of the written law. The Roman Republic until the Punic Wars.The foreign
policy during the Punic Wars: Carthage and Iberia.The conquest of the East.
-The Imperium.between Augustusand the Severi. The crisis of the third
century and the military anarchy. Causes of decay of Rome. Christianity and the changes in the world of
Late Antiquity.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical exposition. Reading, analysis, discussion and synthesis.A final written frequency (50%) and a
written work with presentation in (40% ), as well as attendance and participation (10%)
written work with presentation in (40% ), as well as attendance and participation (10%)
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
