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Syllabus

Term 1 – Autumn 2022

Week 1

  • No class in week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

  • Seminar: Why did the Romans lose Syria?

  • Political structures: Governors and provinces

Week 6

  • No classes: Reading week

Week 7

Week 8

  • Political structures: the civic hierarchy and the progress of urbanism

  • Power Point: Cities

Week 9

Week 10

Term 2 – Spring 2023

Week 11

  • The economy: water and irrigation, agricultural production

  • Power Point: Water, agriculture

Week 12

Week 13

  • The economy: taxes and state burdens, pottery, coinage

  • Power Point: Coinage

Week 14

  • Civic politics, the monumental city

Week 15

  • Hellenism and identity

  • Seminar: Palmyrene portrait sculpture

Week 16

  • No classes: Reading week

Week 17

  • Material manifestations of identity

Week 18

  • Religious life 1

Week 19

  • Religious life 2

Week 20

  • The military presence

  • Seminar: Handling session with coins

Term 3 – Summer Term 2023

Week 21

  • Revision: gobbets

  • Revision: essays

Week 22

  • Revision: general

Week 23

  • Revision: general

Hermel

Serjilla

Tyre