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Course: 2025/2026

Classics Culture
(13795)
Bachelor in Humanities (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 156 - Estudio: 213)


Coordinating teacher: BERMEJO TIRADO, JESUS

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:

Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities



Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Skills in the knowledge of Spanish lenguage
Objectives
Overview of the Classical Graeco-Roman culture through the literary texts. Learning and practice of a Classical language. Introduction to the classical world and the disciplines related to its study, with particular emphasis on archaeological disciplines.
Learning Outcomes
LEARNING OUTCOMES 1.Have acquired advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and demonstrated an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects and working methodologies of the Humanities, so as to achieve a high level of knowledge generation. 2.Be able, by means of arguments or procedures developed and supported by themselves, to apply their knowledge, understanding and problem-solving skills in complex areas concerning the Humanities, including specialised professional activities requiring the use of creative and innovative ideas. 3.Have the ability to collect and interpret data and information on which to base their conclusions, including, where necessary and relevant, reflection on social, scientific or ethical issues in the field of the Humanities. 6.To be able to identify their own training needs in order to develop activities related to the humanities in work or professional environments, as well as to organise their own learning with a high degree of autonomy in all kinds of contexts, whether structured or not. BASIC COMPETENCES 1.Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually at a level that, while relying on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study 3.Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements which include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. 4.Students should be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. 5.Students will have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy. GENERAL COMPETENCES 1.Acquire the essential knowledge of the various subjects of the humanities disciplines: History, Art, Philosophy, Literature, Spanish Language, Languages, Geography and Classical Culture; of their epistemological evolution and of the relationship of each one with related scientific disciplines, starting from the knowledge acquired in secondary education and up to a level that guarantees knowledge of the state-of-the-art in the study of the Humanities. 2.To develop the linguistic and cultural competences of their community language 3.Acquire the different methods of analysis, synthesis, research and thought corresponding to the humanities disciplines studied. 4.Learning to produce ¿knowledge¿ related to the various humanities subjects. 5.Knowing how to approach humanistic problems and content from a rigorous and effective interdisciplinary perspective. 6.Acquiring the ability to introduce and apply critical thinking when analysing information, data, ideas, opinions and concepts related to the world of the Humanities. 7.Acquiring the ability to tackle problems and provide solutions concerning issues related to humanities disciplines. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES 1.Knowing and being able to define and relate the concepts, limits and sources of the subjects concerning humanistic disciplines, as well as knowing the main lines of work and analysis of history, geography, culture, thought and language. 2.Knowing and being able to interpret texts, materials and creations linked to the world of thought, history, geography, theoretical reflection, culture and art, through their correct spatio-temporal contextualisation. 3.Being able to identify and analyse common processes, throughout history, in the relations between society and its intellectual, artistic and cultural productions. 4.Being able to produce analytical texts, essays and reports with rigour and applying a scientific method in accordance with good research and professional practices. 6.To be able to relate the theoretical knowledge acquired with other forms of artistic and intellectual expression, through the application of the interpretative skills acquired in the degree studies. 7.Learning and being able to apply the interdisciplinary approach of the degree in related disciplines, both in the world of culture and in the world of thought, communication, historical and geographical studies and creation and representation.
Description of contents: programme
Knowledge of historical and cultural context of Ancient Greek and Roman worlds through the analysis of literary texts and archaeology. Greek literature and Latin literatures through their texts and archaeology. Block 1. The world of the Homeric poems. The Bronze Age in the Aegean. Knossos and the Minoan palaces. Schliemann and the discovery of Troy and Mycenae. The Dark Ages. The Geometric. The Orientalizing Orientalizing. Block 2. Classical Greece. The Archaic period. The 5th century: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. Literature of the classical period. Socrates. The 4th century: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. Plato and Aristotle. Block 3. The Hellenistic world. Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic kingdoms: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. The new comedy Block 4. The awakening of Rome The archaic monarchy and the origin of Roman urbanism. The Republican period: architecture, ceramics and plastic arts. The origins of Latin literature: Plautus, Terence and Cicero. The Republican Forum. Block 5. The High-Imperial Period Culture in the Augustan period: architecture and sculpture. Latin literature of the Augustan period. The Julio-Claudian dynasty: literature, architecture and urbanism. The plastic arts: painting and mosaic. Latin epigraphy. The art of the Flavian and Antonine periods. The Latin historiography of the first and second centuries AD. The Imperial Forums. Block 6. The Late Roman period The art of the Severan dynasty. The second sophistic. Diocletian: architecture and plastic arts. arts. Constantine and the Christian empire.
Learning activities and methodology
Analysis of texts and archaeological documents. Theory and practice (2 ECTS). Lectures on Classical Culture (2 ECTS). Practices (2 ECTS).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 55
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 45

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • . Homer, Odyssey. University of Michigan Press. 2002
  • . Aristotle, Politics. Hackett Publishing. 1998
  • . Euripides, Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis. Routledge. 1999
  • . Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia. Loeb Classical Library. 2006
  • . Plato, The Symposium. Cambridge University Press. 2008
  • . Sophocles, The Theban Plays of Sophocles. The Yale New Classics Series. 2007
  • Susan E. Alcock (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor). Classical Archaeology . Blackwell. 2012
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Additional Bibliography
  • . Foley, J. M.: A Companion to Ancient Epic.. Blackwell Companions to Ancient World, Blackwell, Oxford 2005.
  • . Gregory, J.: A Companion to Greek Tragedy.. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, Blackwell, Oxford 2005.
  • . Harrison, St.: A Companion to Latin Literature.. Blackwell Companions to Ancient World. Blackwell, Oxford 2004.
  • Robb, K: . Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece. New York-Oxford. 1994
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