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Instructors: Laura Kopp
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
07.068.14_110
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: SoSe 19 Sem AG
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
The general aim of the seminar is to introduce into the sources and academic working methods of Ancient History, so that the propaedeutic part occupies a wide space. The requirements include the regular active participation in the seminar as well as the obligatory tutorial, the completion of tasks, the holding of a presentation, which was previously developed in a group, and the preparation of a scientific paper.
Contents:
The topic of the seminar is the formation and evolution of Athenian democracy.
In the 6th and 5th centuries BC, there were profound changes in the political and social structures of the Polis Athens. Step by step, from the rule of a few aristocrats, a rule of the people, the demos, developed. These changes were also refelcted in the self-image of Athenian citizens.
The seminar examines developments and forms of the political institutions. The extent to which this change influenced classical culture is examined using contemporary sources. In the end, an attempt is made to compare ancient and modern democracy.
Recommended reading list:
- Finley, Moses: Democracy ancient and modern, London 1973;
- Ober, Josiah: Demopolis. Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice, Cambridge 2017.
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