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DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT HISTORY Faculty of Arts Ancient History Continuing Education SESSION 2, 2018
Department of Ancient History Continuing Education Program, Session 2, 2018
Units for Session 2
Monday 30 July to Friday 30 November 2018
Cost $140 per unit
Cost has been reduced to $140 per unit, due to major changes in Library and Online access within the University.
Library access will in future be via community memberships, which cost $110 pa, details can be found here:
https://www.mq.edu.au/about/campus-services-and-facilities/library/borrowing/what-can-i-borrow.
Cut-off date for Session 2 enrolments: Monday 23 July 2018
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Museum of Ancient Cultures, Level 3, 29 Wally’s Walk, Macquarie University NSW 2109
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W: arts.mq.edu.au/anchist_contedAHIS100: Ancient Greece Tyranny and Democracy 800-399BC
This unit covers the broad sweep of ancient Greek history from the eighth century when Greeks Dr Gil Davis
began to settle ('colonize') outside Balkan Greece, through the extraordinary developments of
the Late Archaic and High Classical periods, to the end of the fifth century when Athens lost her
long war with Sparta. During these years Greeks were ruled by kings, aristocrats, oligarchs,
tyrants, and (some of them) by themselves, in the world's first democratic systems. The unit
focuses on political and economic development, the conflict with Persia, and the Peloponnesian
War. It examines how literary, archaeological, and epigraphic sources are used to reconstruct
the past.
AHIS120: Antiquity’s Heirs: Barbarian Europe, Byzantium, and Islam
How do the ancient world and the modern world fit together? Where did the Roman Empire, and Associate Professor
its older neighbour Persia, go? Late Antiquity (c. 250–750 CE) was a period of profound Andrew Gillett
transition that crucially shaped the world we know today. This introductory survey examines how
both Christianity and Islam arose from the classical world, while charting the origins of European
states, Rome's 1000 year continuation in Byzantium, and the creation of the Islamic caliphate.
Pivotal changes in society and culture are studied through texts concerning such figures as
Attila, Anglo-Saxon monks, and the earliest Islamic poets.
AHIS140: Myth in the Ancient World
Gain an understanding of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near-Eastern society and culture Dr Ian Plant
through the study of myth. You will begin from the earliest creation myths and examine the
development of myth in literature and art. The unit is largely based upon Greek and Latin texts
in translation as well as the representation of myth in art; Near-Eastern, and biblical texts will
also be studied. The unit focuses on the relevance of key themes in myth to the cultures in
which the myths arose, investigating their roles in the religious, political and social life of the
classical world.
PLEASE NOTE: This unit is offered ONLY as an online lecture – there are no on-campus
classes. For more details please email: ahisconted@mq.edu.au
AHIS191: World Archaeology
This unit explores the human past from prehistoric times up to the present. Students will Dr Danijel Dzino
examine a range of archaeological material from Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and
Western Europe, Central and South America, as well as Southeastern Asia and the Australasian
area. By exploring a variety of ancient cultures, students will observe the interdisciplinary
approach that contemporary archaeology utilises when facing broader questions such as the
origin of the human species, its evolution and it interaction with the natural environment until the
emergence of complex societies and then the blooming and diversity of historical societies. The
unit will provide a broad knowledge and understanding of past societies, introducing
methodology and theoretical issues when necessary.
AHIS209: Ancient Greek B
This unit is designed to follow AHIS108. A selection of graded Greek texts from a number of Dr Ian Plant
authors is studied to build skills in reading Greek. By the end of semester students read some
unadapted Greek, eg by Euripides.
3AHIS211: Ciceronian Rome This unit examines the social and political history of the age of Gaius Julius Caesar: the so- Dr Lea Beness called last generation of the Roman Republic. It looks at Rome as a society in transition and closes with an examination of Rome's political transformation with the dictatorship of Caesar and the rise of his son and heir Octavian (Augustus). Along the way the unit investigates such topics as: the nature of political competition and the growth of violence, Pompey's great commands, rhetoric, religion, the role of women, slavery, and the changing architectural landscape of Rome itself and probes such abiding issues as the ethics of murder. AHIS219: Latin B This unit aims to help students of ancient history develop their knowledge of the Latin language. Associate Professor It continues the systematic introduction to the grammar and vocabulary begun in unit AHIS118. Trevor Evans The unit also aims to help students build skills in reading original Latin literary and documentary texts, and analyse the significance of Latin for the study of relevant ancient cultures. AHIS230: Archaeology and Society: Archaeological Evidence This unit is an introduction to archaeological study of ancient Mediterranean societies, with Dr Susan Lupack particular reference to Greek and Roman culture. It investigates the results of archaeological fieldwork and examines the material remains of these societies. Included in the unit are studies of architecture, artefacts and ancient technology. This unit also incorporates practical analytical exercises of artefacts in the University's Museum of Ancient Cultures. AHIS250: From Ur to Babylon: A History of Israel from Abraham to the Babylonian Exile This unit is a study of the traditions and history of the Israelite peoples from the foundation of the Dr Louise Pryke nation through the period of the monarchy to the catastrophic events of the early sixth century BCE. The Hebrew Bible and archaeological evidence are used as sources to reconstruct the history of the period, and to understand the theological responses to unfolding events. Critical scholarship is employed to interpret our historical sources. AHIS255: The Historical Geography of Biblical Lands Biblical texts often have an implicit understanding of the geography that influenced the unfolding Dr Kyle Keimer of historical events in the southern Levant--the region of modern-day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. This geography was a limiting factor for the ambitions of various peoples, such as the Israelites, Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans; it was also something they aspired to overcome. The constant interplay between humankind and geography and between one group’s understanding and use of geography against another group's lies behind the biblical texts and the history of Israel/Palestine to the present day. Further, the region's landscape has been the inspiration for some of the most poetic biblical passages, the Psalms. This unit will focus on a region-by-region study of the land of the Bible and will detail how select biblical episodes are enriched when understood in the context of Near Eastern history and Palestinian geography. AHIS259: Ancient Hebrew B This unit extends students' grasp of Biblical Hebrew by working through the second half of the Dr Louise Pryke grammar book. Students also read a prose text from the Hebrew Bible.
AHIS269: Coptic B
This unit builds upon AHIS268. It offers students the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge Associate Professor
of the Coptic language through a study of a range of Sahidic texts. Malcolm Choat
AHIS279: Egyptian Hieroglyphs B
This unit builds upon AHIS178 providing further study of Middle Egyptian grammar as well as Associate Professor
the study and interpretation of Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. Boyo Ockinga
AHIS281: Ancient Egyptian Art
This unit traces the major developments in 2- and 3-Dimensional visual culture in ancient Egypt
from its predynastic beginnings through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms until the conquest Dr Alexandra Woods
of Augustus (3100-30 B.C.E.). The unit examines the function of ancient Egyptian art in the
context of history, religion, politics and cultural patterns and critiques the main methods of
analysing and interpreting ancient Egyptian visual culture.
AHIS290: Landscape Archaeology
This unit introduces students to the theoretical issues, techniques and approaches that Dr Adela Sobotkova
comprise landscape archaeology. The concepts of environment, ecosystem, and cultural
landscape will be discussed. Students will reflect on how human societies have interacted with
natural environments in the past and explore the limits of archaeological evidence on this topic.
Social aspects of landscape will be discussed in a series of case studies on inequality, power
relations, and social complexity. Students will learn to articulate research questions pertaining to
archaeological change in space and time, investigate and analyse spatial patterns and assess
human impact on the landscape. The methods of spatial analysis introduced in the unit include
remote sensing analysis, paleo-environmental studies, geoarchaeology, GIS, predictive
modelling, multi-scalar analysis, subsistence and settlement patterns analysis. The course will
incorporate a critical review of the methods frequently used in landscape archaeology such as
surface survey.
AHIS305: Athenian Law and Society
Why did the Athenians consider adultery a worse crime than rape? What was the Greek attitude Professor Ian
to women and the family in society, and why? In what circumstances could a citizen kill another Worthington
and get away with it? Why did the Greeks embrace child prostitution but made male
homosexuality a crime? Why were slaves tortured before their testimony was admissible in
court? These are some of the questions addressed in this course, which mines the rich
information found in contemporary court speeches to shed light not only on the admirable
aspects of Greek society, but also the often overlooked contemptible side to that society. The
course surveys the Athenian law code and the workings of the judicial system in the fifth and
fourth centuries BC to see why Athenian society is referred to as ‘the rule of the law’. Then we
move to reading in class (and discussing) actual forensic speeches (in translation) from a variety
of lawsuits and procedures (e.g., homicide, adultery, personal injury). We will talk about as
society changed, the Athenians changed their ideas and developed new laws – modern society
is no different, or is it?
AHIS309: Ancient Greek D
5This unit aims to help history students consolidate advanced skills in ancient Greek. The unit Associate Professor completes the systematic analysis of grammar (especially the structure of sentences) begun in Trevor Evans unit AHIS308 and further investigates the concepts of dialectal variation and historical development in the classical and post-classical periods. The unit also aims to help students consolidate their skills in reading original Greek literary and documentary texts, and analysing the significance of Greek for the study of relevant ancient cultures. AHIS310: Early Rome This unit is a study of the history of Rome in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, from the Associate Professor establishment of the Roman republic to the time of the first Punic War. The work draws on Livy, Paul McKechnie other literary sources including Plutarch, and to some degree the findings of archaeological research. AHIS319: Latin D This unit aims to help history students consolidate advanced skills in ancient and medieval Associate Professor Latin. It completes the systematic analysis of grammar begun in units AHIS118, AHIS219 and Trevor Evans AHIS318 and further investigates the concepts of historical development and linguistic diversity. The unit also aims to help students consolidate their skills in reading original Latin literary and documentary texts, and analysing the significance of Latin for the study of relevant ancient cultures. AHIS323: Byzantium in the Age of the Emperors, 306-1453AD This unit comprises the study of Byzantine history from the foundation of Constantinople in the Dr Meaghan McEvoy fourth century AD onwards. It focuses on the role of the emperors as continuators of the Roman imperial tradition, and on the continuity/discontinuity of the classical tradition, as well as on contacts between the Byzantines and the Arabs (East), Medieval Europe (West), and the South Slavs (Balkans). Major themes include: interactions between emperors and their subjects; the Eastern Orthodox religious tradition; historiography; legislative developments; art and architecture; philosophy; humanism; monasticism; iconoclasm; and the role of women in society. AHIS340: Women and Gender in the Ancient World This unit is a study of sexuality and gender in the Egyptian, Near Eastern and Ancient Dr Lea Beness Mediterranean worlds, but with special emphasis on classical Greek and Roman society. It also looks at the convergence of classical traditions and Judaeo-Christian thought in late antique Rome. The unit draws upon the contributions of women's history and feminist scholarship to the study of antiquity, paying particular attention to the role of historiography in understanding past worlds. AHIS341: The Hellenistic Age Alexander the Great's extraordinary conquests (towards the end of the fourth century BCE) Dr Christopher opened up vast areas of the ancient Near East to Greek influences. This unit deals with the Forbes political and cultural history of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, beginning with the death of Alexander. It follows the fortunes of his successors in the third and second centuries BCE, the developments brought on for both Greeks and those they conquered, the "Hellenisation" of native peoples, and reactions to cultural change, down to the end of the first century BCE, under the Roman Empire.
AHIS343: Early China: History and Archaeology
This unit is a study of selected topics in early Chinese history and archaeology, including: Shang Dr Gunner
oracle bones and bronzes; the unification of China and the tomb complex of the First Emperor; Mikkelsen
the rise of the Han empire; the influence of nomadic peoples of the steppes; the Historical
Records of the Grand Historian Sima Qian; the Silk Road; the cosmopolitan civilisation of the
Tang; Confucianism; Daoism; Buddhism and other foreign religions in China.
AHIS344: Religions along the Silk Road
Most of the world's major religions spread and flourished along the Silk Road. This unit studies Dr Gunner
the history, teachings, literature, art and archaeology of Buddhism, Manichaeism, Christianity Mikkelsen
and Zoroastrianism in Central Asia and North China in the first millennium of the CE. It explores
themes related to cross-cultural transmission, translation, assimilation and reception.
AHIS349: Ancient Languages Special Topic B
This unit aims to help history students consolidate advanced skills in ancient languages,
especially through the reading of original texts. Options are potentially available in Ancient Associate Professor
Greek (at E or F level), Latin (at E or F level), Hieroglyphic Egyptian (at D or E level), Ancient Trevor Evans
Hebrew (at D level), or Coptic Egyptian (at D level). The convener should be contacted to
determine which options are available each year.
AHIS355: A History of Magic: From the Magi to Merlin
This unit will survey magic in the ancient world, from the Ancient Near Eastern civilisations,
through the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman worlds, to Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and early Associate Professor
Medieval Europe. It will provide thorough coverage of the way magic has been defined, Malcolm Choat
understood, and used in these civilisations, and the way it has been conceived and studied in
the history of modern scholarship over the past two centuries. Students will focus closely on the
material sources for ancient magic, especially handbooks of spells and amulets on papyrus.
There will also be close consideration of the construction of magic as an antithesis to religion in
the ancient and modern worlds. As a coda, the unit will look beyond the ancient world to the
role, use, and understanding of magic in wider historical, literary, and scientific contexts. This
will include not only consideration of magic (and things which might be considered 'magic') in the
Renaissance and modern worlds, but aspects of cognitive psychology such as perceptual
illusions and delusional beliefs.
AHIS357: Material Culture and Museum Studies
An advanced level study of some of the most common categories of material in the Near East, Associate Professor
including copper-bronze, iron, limestone, pottery and ivory, and various genres of materials, Javier Alvarez-Mon
such as seals, ceramics, sculpture weaponry and equestrian equipment, with particular
emphasis on technology, manufacture, function, style, iconography, chronology and spatial
distribution. Material will normally be drawn from the collections of the Museum of Ancient
Cultures and may vary from year to year. The unit engages the student with issues in the
articulation of the historical record from material evidence from the Near East including the role
of private and public collections, forgeries and the plundering of material evidence.
7AHIS368: Coptic Egyptian C This unit is an in-depth study of a selection of Coptic texts in Sahidic (Shenoute and other Associate Professor monastic literature, homiletic or hagiographical texts), and an introduction to the other major Malcolm Choat Coptic dialects (Bohairic, Fayumic, Mesokemic, Lycoplitan, Achmimic). AHIS380: Ancient Egyptian Religion This unit is a study of religious thought and its development in Ancient Egypt. It covers topics Associate Professor such as the concept of god, creation accounts, cosmology, divine kingship, polytheism, Boyo Ockinga monotheism, pantheism, myths, temple cult, oracles &and personal religion. AHIS391: Laboratory Methods of Archaeology This unit covers the range of laboratory principles and methods used in archaeology for the Dr Ronika Power description, analysis and critical appraisal of artefacts, features and sites. Through theoretical instruction and practical demonstrations in on-campus laboratories students learn how the different experts involved in an archaeological project carry out laboratory analyses artefacts study, archaeological sediments, plant and animal remains using scientific approaches (for example, X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Electron microscopy, Gas chromatography, etc). AHIS392: Cultural Heritage This unit will introduce students to the study and management of cultural heritage, both through Dr Linda Evans instruction and practical experience. Topics to be covered include: the history of cultural heritage; cultural heritage management in Australia; the assessment of cultural significance; preparation of conservation plans; collections and site management; the interpretation of heritage; and current issues in heritage studies. As a PACE unit, students will also be required to undertake an internship in the cultural heritage sector (e.g., museums, galleries, archives, or heritage consultancies, etc), in order to learn directly from professional practitioners and to practice their skills in a real-world environment.
FIND OUT MORE Convenors Professor Alanna Nobbs E: alanna.nobbs@mq.edu.au Associate Professor Tom Hillard E: thomas.hillard@mq.edu.au Museum of Ancient Cultures Education Officer Ms Philippa Medcalf P: (02) 9850 9262 Department of Ancient History Outreach Co-ordinator E: ahistconted@mq.edu.au CRICOS Provider No 00002J Photo credit: Pyramids, Egypt
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