| Course ID: | CLAS 4170/6170. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Environmental History of Greece and Rome |
Course
Description: | The environmental history of Greece and Rome, with emphasis on
historiography, key concepts, methods, sources, and problems. |
| Oasis Title: | Env History of Greece and Rome |
| Prerequisite: | CLAS 1000 or CLAS 1000E or CLAS 1000H or CLAS 1010 or CLAS 1010E or CLAS 1010H or CLAS 1020 or CLAS 1020E or CLAS 1020H or CLAS 3000 or CLAS 3010 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015E or CLAS 3030 or CLAS 3040 or CLAS3050 or permission of department |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Students will learn fundamental themes and approaches in
environmental history from study of the Greek and Roman worlds
2. Students will engage with, discuss, and review seminal
scholarship concerned with the environmental history of ancient
Greece and Rome
3. Students will understand how new scientific approaches to
Greek and Roman history complement traditional literary and
archaeological approaches
4. Students will learn how to write book reviews
5. Students will understand how the environment has both
constrained and enabled historical developments in the
Mediterranean
6. Students will understand how Greek and Roman cultures
transformed the Mediterranean environment, and the consequences
of those efforts
7. Students will learn how historians and archaeologists answer
questions about the past through evidence-based research
8. Students will produce writing and research appropriate to the
subject matter of the course and to the disciplines of classics
and archaeology |
| Topical Outline: | I. What is the Mediterranean? Geography, history, and ecology
II. Mediterranean fragmentation, diversity, and connectivity
III. The ecology of urban settlements
IV. The ecology and history of Mediterranean agriculture
V. Technology and the Mediterranean environment
VI. Mediterranean catastrophes
VII. Mobility of goods and people
VIII. Mediterranean religion and the physical environment |