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| Semester | fall semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Francesco Quondam (francesco.quondam@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The 1st millennium BC may well be defined as the Age of the Cities. Though single, ephemeral leaps forward towards stages of development comparable to the urban phenomenon of the 1st millennium had already occurred in Europe even thousands of years earlier, it is only from the time around 1000 BC that the transition from the old world of villages to that of urban communities takes the form of a veritable and unstoppable wave of change, extending from the Aegean to the Central and Western Mediterranean and up to temperate Europe. The phaenomenon of urbanisation can well be regarded as an epitome of the dramatically renewed social and economic dimension of the early 1st millennium: demographic growth, social complexification, centralization, hierarchization and interconnectivity constitute not only the common background to the proto-urban and urban revolution, but also embody the real forces of change, driving the Mediterranean societies to a completely new stage of development. |
| Learning objectives | Over the course of this class we will adopt a comparative perspective to investigate the social, political and economic background that led to the emergence of urbanisation in Mediterranean and Temperate Europe. |
| Bibliography | BINTLIFF 2019 J. BINTLIFF, City-archaeology in Boeotia: continuity and discontinuity, localism and globalisation, in T. LUCAS, C. MÜLLER, A.-C. ODDON-PANISSIÉ (eds.), La Béotie de l’archaïsme à l’époque romaine. Frontières, territoires, paysages, Paris 2019, 121-133. FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ 2018 M. FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, Urbanization in Iron Age Europe: Trajectories, Patterns and Social Dynamics, in Journal of Archaeological Research 26, 2018, 117-162. HODOS 2020 T. HODOS, The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age. A Globalising World c. 1100-600 BCE, Cambridge 2020. MAZARAKIS-AINIAN 2007 A. MAZARAKIS-AINIAN (ed.), Oropos and Euboea in the Early Iron Age, Volos 2007. MORRIS, KNODELL 2015 I. MORRIS, A. R. KNODELL, Greek cities in the first millennium BCE, in N. YOFFEE (ed.), The Cambridge World History, Cambridge 2015, 343-363. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Friday | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 24.09.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 01.10.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 08.10.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 15.10.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 22.10.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 29.10.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Friday 05.11.2021 | 14.15-15.45 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
| Monday 08.11.2021 | 09.15-16.45 | Rosshof, Tagungsraum 306 |
| Monday 22.11.2021 | 09.15-16.45 | Rosshof, Tagungsraum 306 |
| Modules |
Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor's degree program: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften MA (Master's degree subject: Ancient History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Klassische Archäologie |