Internationalizing a Course on the Cultural and Intellectual History of the Ancient World

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Richard S. Rawls
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Outcome Goals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Learn Outcome

This chapter investigates the process of internationalizing a course on ancient history. It suggests ways that a course can be created, examines important issues, and provides examples of assignments to help meet course, discipline, and institutional outcomes. Informed by the work of Fink, it commences by arguing for the significance of course outcome goals, disciplinary outcome goals, and additional institutional goals related to internationalizing the curriculum. Without these various outcome goals as building blocks for the course, it will be both difficult to assess the educational effectiveness of the class and challenging to organize the content. The chapter next discusses pedagogical issues before moving into internationalizing the course. It then investigates the work of two ancient authors, Herodotus and Tacitus, who commented upon foreign cultures. Their histories support exercises designed to help learn outcome goals. Contrary to what some may think, internationalizing a course on ancient history is easier than one might initially anticipate.

Fates of Romes

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Alain Bresson
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

Kyle Harper's book The Fate of Rome marks the thunderous entry of Nature into the world of ancient history of the twenty-first century. This is not the first book devoted to questions of climate and diseases in the ancient world, but its publication nonetheless represents a turning point. From now on, whether they work on political, social, economic, or even religious history, ancient historians will no longer be able to ignore these factors in their own writings. That is not to say that all the theses of the book, especially its natural determinism, should be accepted uncritically.

North Africa to 600

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Fromherz
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of

The history of North Africa in Antiquity is one of the most exciting, if still comparatively unexplored, fields of ancient history and archaeology. From the continuing, highly charged controversy over the origin of the Berbers, the original inhabitants of North Africa, to the prominence of Carthage—Rome’s one significant rival for the control of the ancient Mediterranean—to the astoundingly preserved and understudied ancient ruins that meet or surpass much of what can be seen on other Mediterranean shores, North Africa in Antiquity remains a subject of great importance to scholars of the ancient world. This bibliography will include sources up to the Arab conquests of the 7th century ce.

scholarly journals A Few Observations on Pope John Paul II’s Relationship to the Ancient World

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Leszek Zinkow
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of

The article points out a few selected threads of interest related to Karol Wojtyła’s – Pope John Paul II’s – relationship with the ancient world, with the focus on the Biblical lands. Some of his statements on this subject are dis­cussed. Above all, the focus is on John Paul II’s pilgrimages in 2000 and 2001. These two endeavors were connected with the Jubilee Year, in which the Pope visited, among other countries, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Greece, referring to the ancient history of these locations.

scholarly journals APPIAN’S ILLYRIKE: THE FINAL STAGE OF THE ROMAN CONSTRUCTION OF ILLYRICUM

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
DANIJEL DŽINO
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Histories

Appian’s Illyrian book (Illyrike) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this short work Appian puts together different local and regional histories in order to create a unified historical narrative and determines the historical and mythological coordinates of Illyricum inside the ancient world. This paper will discuss Illyrike in the context of the Roman construction of Illyricum as a provincial space, similar to some other regions in continental Europe such as, for example, Gaul or Britain. They were all firstly created through the needs of Roman political geography and later written into literary knowledge through the works of ancient history and ethnography. This paper will argue that Appian’s Illyrike represented the final stage of the Roman construction of Illyricum from an imaginary to a provincial space, which was the point of its full coming of age as an integral part of the ancient world and the Roman Empire.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Randall
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Political World ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constitutional Thought

The changed conception of conversation that emerged by c.1700 was about to expand its scope enormously – to the broad culture of Enlightenment Europe, to the fine arts, to philosophy and into the broad political world, both via the conception of public opinion and via the constitutional thought of James Madison (1751–1836). In the Enlightenment, the early modern conception of conversation would expand into a whole wing of Enlightenment thought. The intellectual history of the heirs of Cicero and Petrarch would become the practice of millions and the constitutional architecture of a great republic....

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