Masculinity and Citizenship in Greece and Rome
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CLAR3047 | Classics and Archaeology | 3 | 40 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- CLAR3047
- School
- Classics and Archaeology
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 40
- Semesters
- Full Year UK
Summary
This module uses literary, artistic and historical material to explore the idea of what it is to be a man and an accepted citizen in ancient Greece and Rome. It explores how good citizens should behave and what should they look like. How do they represent this citizenship to the rest of the world and how does this change over time? These questions bring literature, art and ancient history together with gender studies to examine the importance of gender in both bolstering and denigrating public personae. Topics to be covered include, homoeroticism and Athenian identity, dress and cultural identity, sexual invective, citizenship and empire, Roman representation in the provinces and women, politics and patronage.
Target Students
Part II students taking Single or Joint Honours courses in the Department of Classics
Classes
- One 2-hour seminar each week for 20 weeks
- One 1-hour seminar each week for 20 weeks
2-hour session to be held before the 1-hour session each week.
Assessment
- 25% Coursework 1: 2000 word reverse gobbet exercise.
- 25% Coursework 2: Poster project with 1500 word analytical statement
- 50% Coursework 3: 10 minute podcast exercise with script and bibliography.
Assessed in both autumn & spring semest
Educational Aims
(a) to gain knowledge and understanding of an appropriate and diverse range of primary sources (visual and literary) for the study of masculinity and its representation in Greece and Rome (b) to learn critical and theoretical approaches to the study of these sources (c) to test these approaches by examining issues of citizenship and self and collective representation in antiquity through the lens of masculinity and gender studies.Learning Outcomes
(1) Knowledge and Understanding: (a) overall knowledge of how citizen identity is celebrated and subverted in Greece and Rome (b) detailed knowledge of an appropriate and diverse range of material (literary and visual) (c) understanding of different modern approaches to the study of citizenship as representation in Greece and Rome
(2) Intellectual Skills: enhancement of capacity for critical judgement, and of ability to gather, memorize, organize and deploy information, to extract key elements from data and identify and solve associated problems, to engage in analytical and evaluative thinking, and to marshal argument.
(3) Professional/Practical Skills: enhancement of ability to select, sift and synthesize information from a range of primary and secondary sources; to identify and compare central arguments in relation to these materials; to use library resources effectively; and to word-process as well as present material with attention to detail and accuracy, including appropriate referencing skills.
(4) Transferable Skills: enhancement of ability to communicate orally and in writing, and to work under pressure and meet deadlines.