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72741-01 - Übung: City and Countryside in the Greco-Roman World (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Sara Baldin (sara.baldin@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Lucas Weisser-Gericke (lucas.gericke@unibas.ch) |
| Inhalt | "Once upon a time, a country mouse welcomed a city mouse into its burrow...." The relationship between city and country in the Greco-Roman world can be considered from a wide variety of perspectives, such as political, economic, or cultural. From a political point of view, city and country may appear as a unit – the terms polis and civitas refer to a political entity comprising both the urban core and the rural hinterland – or else as ruler (city) and ruled (country) in a hierarchical interrelation. The economic perspective on the relation between city and country in Antiquity has largely been shaped by the ‘consumer city’ model, one of the most influential ‘grand theories’ of the ancient economy in general, which sees the ancient city as living on the agricultural surplus produced in its rural hinterland. Finally, the cultural historian may explore how the ancients conceptualized and imagined city and country and their interrelationship, what values and mentalities they associated with city or village life, what differences and similarities they perceived or constructed, etc. The range of sources that may be used to investigate the city-country relationship in Antiquity is just as wide as the perspectives one may take at this topic and includes literary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and papyrological materials. With this course we aim at overcoming the traditional dichotomy between city and countryside, urban and rural, by analyzing the vast fan of intricacies underlying their tight interaction through the eyes of the ancients. |
| Lernziele | - Unravel the wide range of possible approaches to the topic of city-country relations in Greco-Roman Antiquity - Become acquainted with different types of evidence (literary, archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological, etc.) and their respective informative value - Learn to frame sources and materials in their historical and geographical contexts - Examine specific case studies that illustrate the complexity and great variety of the city-country relations |
| Literatur | - A. Zuiderhoek (2017), The Ancient City, Cambridge (Chapter 3: “City and Country”, p. 37–55). - R. Rosen, I. Sluiter (2006), City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity, Boston-Leiden. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10.15-11.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungszimmer S 183 |
Einzeltermine
| Module |
Modul: Griechische Geschichte BA (Bachelor Studienfach: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Griechische Geschichte BA (Bachelor Studiengang: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Reflexion, Methodik, Praxis (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Römische Geschichte BA (Bachelor Studienfach: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Römische Geschichte BA (Bachelor Studiengang: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Theorie und Methoden der Alten Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Theorie und Methoden der Alten Geschichte (Bachelor Studiengang: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Vertiefung in Alter Geschichte (Master Studienfach: Alte Geschichte) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor Studienfach: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor Studiengang: Altertumswissenschaften) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften MA (Master Studienfach: Alte Geschichte) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Alte Geschichte |