ANHS6903 - A Tale of Three Cities

Semester 2, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Richard Miles
Phone: +61 2 9351 2074
Email: richard.miles@sydney.edu.au

Description

'Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.' (Ruskin) Empires spawn capital cities whose deeds, words and art reflect the ideograph of their imperialism. Compare three imperial cities: democratic Athens as a ruler of a Hellenic empire in the time of Pericles; the republican city state of Rome turning into an autocratic world state in the time of Caesar Augustus; the evolution of fourth century Constantinople as the centre of a Christian bureaucratic and Hellenistic empire.

Assessments

2x2000 word seminar papers (65%), 1x2000 word take-home exam (35%)

Classes

1x2 hour seminar per week

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