Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Paul McKechnie
Naguib Kanawati
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp including (6cp in AHIS units at 200 level)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit allows for advanced study on special ancient history topics, including advanced Greek history or archaeological training. Session 1: The topic will focus on Greek Tyrants - seventh to third centuries BC. Sole rulers of Greek states from Cypselus of Corinth to Philopoemen of Megalopolis, ‘the last of the ancient Greeks’, are the focus of this unit, which follows the phenomenon of tyranny from the archaic age down to the days of the Hellenistic kings.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Follow the Ancient History essay style guide.
Hand in essays via turnitin.
If you want to do the exam anywhere else other than at Macquarie University on the day set, you must make your own arrangements for this with the agreement of the exams section, well in advance, and at your own cost.
Assessment tasks are compulsory and must be submitted on time. Extensions may be requested from the unit convener before the assignment is due (and not after). Up to a week will be allowed; if a longer time is needed, a professional authority form should accompany the request, saying how many days the student has been unable to work. Late submissions may be penalised by 2% for each day (including weekends) the assignment task is late. Coursework handed in early will not be returned before the due date.
For Disruption to Studies Policy see under Policies and Procedures.
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Minor essay | 20% | Week 2 |
Major essay | 40% | Week 10 |
End of semester exam | 40% | Set by examinations section |
Due: Week 2
Weighting: 20%
Minor essay, maximum 1000 words including footnotes but not including bibliography.
Option 1
How did the tyranny of Cypselus and (later) Periander differ from the way Corinth was governed in the days of the Corinthian monarchy and of the Bacchiad presidency?
Option 2
Consider Orthagoras and the Sicyonian tyranny, and also Theagenes and the Megarian tyranny. Are they evidence of a political movement originating in Corinth,
Due: Week 10
Weighting: 40%
Major essay, maximum 2000 words including footnotes but not including bibliography.
Option 1
‘Pisistratus … occupied a clear cultural niche at Rome by exemplifying the “good” tyrant’ (Christopher B. Polt). Trace the origins of this idea; does it have something to commend it?
Option 2
When Dion took over from Dionysius II, had the Syracusans ‘merely exchanged a stupid and drunken tyrant for a watchful and sober master’ (cf. Plutarch Dion 34.2)? Or was Dion actually the nearest thing the Greek world ever had to a philosopher-king?
Option 3
Compare and contrast one of these Greek tyrants with one of these twentieth-century tyrants. Are the parallels and differences informative?
Greek tyrants: Periander, Polycrates, Dionysius I
Twentieth-century tyrants: Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Enver Hoxha
Due: Set by examinations section
Weighting: 40%
Two-hour invigilated exam.
In Section A, segments will be set from each of ten source documents. Student will be asked to comment on points of historical interest in one or two of these segments. Half the marks for the exam (20% of the marks for the unit as a whole) will be available for work done in this Section.
In Section B, four questions will be set for essay-style answers without footnoting. Students will be asked to attempt one or two of these questions. Half the marks for the exam (20% of the marks for the unit as a whole) will be available for work done in this Section.
Late in the course of lectures, the unit convener will give some broad guidance as to what to prepare for this exam.
Please use the iLearn page, Echo360, and the unit readings to full advantage.
Lecture attendance is recommended.
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Lectures
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Texts |
Week 1
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1 |
Heroes, founders, kings |
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Cypselus |
Document 1: Herodotus on Cypselus (Hdt. 5.92) |
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Week 2
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3 |
Periander |
Document 2: Herodotus on Periander (Hdt. 5.92) |
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The Peloponnesian tyrants |
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Week 3
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5 |
The Peloponnesian tyrants (2) |
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6 |
The Peloponnesian tyrants (3) |
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Week 4
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7 |
Polycrates: the luckiest man in the world (1) |
Document 3: Herodotus on Polycrates (Hdt. 3.39-43, 60, 122-6) |
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Polycrates: the luckiest man in the world (2) |
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Week 5
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9 |
Pisistratus (1) |
Document 4: Aristotle on Pisistratus (Aristotle Constitution of the Athenians 13-17) |
10 |
Pisistratus (2) |
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Week 6
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11 |
The Pisistratids |
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Hippias’ last stand |
Document 5: Herodotus on Hippias and the Pisistratids. |
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Week 7
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13 |
Fifth-century Athens and tyrants |
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14 |
Introduction to Greek Sicily |
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Week 8
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15 |
Dionysius I (1) |
Document 6: Diodorus Siculus on Dionysius I of Sicily |
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Dionysius I (2) |
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Week 9
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17 |
Dionysius II and Dion |
Document 7 [Plato] on Dionysius II of Syracuse |
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Dionysius II and Plato |
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Week 10
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19 |
Timoleon and the revival of Greek Sicily |
Document 8 Plutarch on Timoleon |
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Agathocles |
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Week 11
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21 |
Sicyon and Achaea (1) |
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Sicyon and Achaea (2) |
Document 9: Plutarch on Cleomenes |
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Week 12
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23 |
Sicyon and Achaea (3) |
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24 |
Sparta in the third century (1) |
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Week 13 |
25 |
Sparta in the third century (2) |
Document 10: Polybius on the Achaean League and Cleomenes |
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Sparta in the third century (3) |
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Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
New Assessment Policy in effect from Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. For more information visit http://students.mq.edu.au/events/2016/07/19/new_assessment_policy_in_place_from_session_2/
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