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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2020 |
Registration ID | GSEMB654001 |
Course Title | War & Peace: Ancient World |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | History of Art |
Instructor | Baertschi,Annette M. Lindenlauf,Astrid |
Times and Days | F 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | BYC239 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1327 For centuries history has been perceived, written and taught as a series of wars and periods of peace. Yet, the question remains: what does it mean when a city, a state or a nation is at war, and how do different cultures and societies conceptualize peace? This interdisciplinary seminar explores theories and practices of war and peace in the ancient world, examining the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. The archaeology of warfare will include battlefields, fortifications, arms and weapons, siege machines, war memorials, funerary monuments as well as the iconography of victors and victims. The literary sources that we will be reading, among them the Homeric epics, select passages from Greek and Roman historiography, philosophical and rhetorical works and ancient handbooks and manuals of warfare, will shed light on the recording of conflicts, the conduct of war, notions of power and peace, the depiction of leaders, the representation of violence, and strategies of commemoration. Investigating bodies of evidence, which are normally studied separately and within specific disciplinary formations, we aim to challenge the entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, and history and to engage in a discourse about the complex and changing conceptualizations of war and peace in the ancient world. We plan to have several guest lecturers. Students participating in this seminar will be expected to give oral presentations and to develop their special areas of interests in their research projects applying a variety of methods. No previous classics or archaeology training is required. Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Permission of Instructor; Senior; |
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