640009 PS Ancient History: Greek and Roman Historiography - an overview

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640009
PS Ancient History: Greek and Roman Historiography - an overview
PS 2
5
weekly
each semester
German

The acquisition of basic skills in dealing with ancient sources and in composing a paper.

Thinking about history does not start with Hegel or Droysen. In fact, Greek and Roman writers also thought of their cultures' past. But in contrast to modern historical methods, they had different approaches to writing history. They didn't hesitate to mix historical facts with pure fiction, they added sex and crime stories to the historical events and overemphasized their own role as authors.

The course will give an overview of ancient historical thinking by looking at some specific issues such as the problem of objectivity/subjectivity or the (ab-)use of sources by ancient authors.

Combination of lecture, reading tasks and guided reading, exercises, short presentations and group work.

Written paper, exercises, participation during the course.

Relevant literature will be announced during the course.

461: positive assessment of compulsory module 1

Online-Registration. Maximum up to 25 participants.

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Date Time Location
Mon 2021-03-01
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-03-08
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-03-15
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-03-22
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-04-12
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-04-19
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-04-26
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-05-03
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-05-10
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-05-17
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-05-31
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-06-07
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-06-14
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)
Mon 2021-06-21
09.00 - 10.30 online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik) online (Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik)