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Bachelor 2024/2025

Research Seminar Problem of Greek Historiography

Type: Elective course (Classical Studies)
Area of studies: Philology
Delivered by: Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Where: Faculty of Humanities
When: 3 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies: distance learning
Online hours: 20
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors: Andrey Mozhaysky
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 70

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

Problems of Greek Historiography. The course is aimed at highlighting the most controversial and prominent problems in modern classical studies. The research seminar covers issues of Greek historiography. A special feature of the program is that it mainly addresses those issues that have survived a change in the research paradigm and examines the modern achievements of historical science in relation to a particular problem.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Problem of Greek Historiography
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • To be able to use the key ideas of Greek thinkers from Thales to Aristotle, including: the debate around virtue, justice, truth and the possibility of rational explanation of the universe.
  • We will take a close look at the most authoritative story on the origin of the cosmos from Greek antiquity: Hesiod’s Theogony.
  • Characterises the key ideas of Greek thinkers from Thales to Aristotle, including: the debate around virtue, justice, truth and the possibility of rational explanation of the universe
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Problem of Greek Historiography
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Activity
  • non-blocking Oral interview
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.5 * Activity + 0.5 * Oral interview
  • 2024/2025 4th module
    0.5 * Activity + 0.5 * Oral interview
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Shanks, M. (1996). The Classical Archaeology of Greece : Experiences of the Discipline. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=93872

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Bispham, E., Harrison, T. J., & Sparkes, B. A. (2006). The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=279994

Authors

  • KHOMCHENKOVA VARVARA VALENTINOVNA
  • Mozhayskiy Andrey Yurevich