How did the Greeks and Romans construct a map of the world they lived in? How did people in antiquity imagine the world, or their own neighbourhood? When they travelled, what sort of mental map did they use? This course will range from the practicalities and purposes of travel in the ancient world to the intellectual frameworks of geographers. How did travellers communicate their knowledge of the world to each other and to the audience of armchair travellers? And how did the knowledge gained by travellers inform the work of geographers? Students will read a range of ancient sources in translation, including Herodotos, Strabo, Pausanias and Ptolemy, as well as less well-known writers, and be invited to plan their own travels in the ancient world.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- demonstrate familiarity with an important body of written and material evidence for the history of classical Greece and Rome;
- evaluate the development of geographical ideas and knowledge in antiquity, and gain insights into the practicalities and social attitudes governing travel and mobility in the ancient world;
- demonstrate competency in handling difficult, tendentious, and fragmentary evidence, and skills in close reading and analysis;
- demonstrate capacities for working in groups and presenting material, ideas and arguments orally; and
- demonstrate capacities in analytical, argumentative and descriptive writing.
Indicative Assessment
- Tutorial participation (10) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- In-class exercises (10) [LO 1,2,4]
- 20-minute Group presentation and written notes, 1000 words (10) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Essay, 3,000 words (30) [LO 1,2,3,5]
- Examination, 3 hours, during the examination period (40) [LO 1,2,3,5]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 12 hours of lectures and 24 hours of tutorials and tutorial-like activities
b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
None
Preliminary Reading
S.B. Pomeroy, S.M. Burstein, W. Donlan and J.T. Roberts, Ancient Greece: a political, social, and cultural history (3rd ed.: New York, Oxford University Press, 2011)
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 14
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $3960 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $5820 |
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