"25701 - Ancient History I: From Archaic Greek Cities to the Hellenistic Kingdoms" is one of the basic subjects of the 2nd year of the Degree in History. It belongs to the General History Module and it is linked to the subjects "25724 - Sociedades y culturas en el Mundo Antiguo / Antzinaroko gizarteak eta kulturak (1st year of the Degree)" and "25702 - Historia Antigua II: Roma, de la República al Imperio / Antzinaroaren Historia II: Erroma, errepubikatik inperiora" (3rd yeard of the Degree).



The overall objective of the subject is to provide the second-grade student in history with a concise knowledge of the historical events and processes that happened during the three most relevant periods of Greek history: Archaic Greece (between VIII-VI centuries BC), Classical Greece (betweeen V-IV centuries BC) and Hellenistic Greece (323-31 BC).





The subject goes back briefly to the second millennium B.C. in order to explain previous civilizations, such as the Minoian or the Phoenician, that preceded the hellenistic in the commercial control of the Mediterranean Basin. Likewise, the Achemenid Empire is attended as the great Eastern enemy that largely determined the historical evolution of the ancient Greeks. The study of these other civilizations, and the period known as the "Homeric World", frames the core of the matter: the different modes of political organization, warfare, thought, artistic expression, relationship between men and women etc. A culture recognized as particularly creative, whose notorious legacy to our Western civilization will be valued over the semester.



In order to go through this subject, the student needs the knowledge that is assumed to a second grade student in Arts. In particular, a willingness for learning and the curiosity about Greek culture is required.



Knowledge of Greek history is important as cultural baggage, recognized as such in any important profession. Such knowledge is essential for gaining access to the Master and PhD studies in any of the university degrees in Arts, as well as for teaching Human or Social Sciences, both in the field of secondary and university education.

COMPETENCIES OF THE COURSE OR THE MODULE 2 (MO2, General History)



CROSS-CUTTING COMPETENCIES:



M02CM04 - To be able to present orally and/or in writing, with formal correction and appropriate terminology, at least one topic of universal history, in such a way as to demonstrate the students ability for the proper use of the primary and secondary historical sources.



SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES



M02CM01: To demonstrate sufficient knowledge and adequate understanding of the main processes and events of universal, national and regional history, in a diachronistic perspective, focussing in its different aspects (society, politics, religion, economics..) and its relationship with current societies.



M02CM02: To identify the different approaches and historiographic perspectives and their relationship with the culture of each historical period.



M02CM03: To know the basic methods and techniques of historical research and to show the ability to obtain, organize and analyze the different materials and sources of information.



LEARNING RESULTS



LR1. They know the geographical areas, a wide chronology of the history of Greece, its main toponymy and a essential glossary for the knowledge of that period.

LR2. They know how to locate and manage critically the main primary and secondary historical sources of Greek civilization.

LR3. They recognize the social, political and economic factors that are involved in the historical processes of ancient Greece, as well as the consequences that result from them.

LR4. They focus on the main approaches from which modernity has studied Greek culture and, in particular, political thought and institutional practices that gave rise to the first form of democratic rule in the "Golden Age of Athens ".

LR5. They are able to think about the most outstanding links between ancient Greek civilization and contemporary Western civilization.

1.- The Aegean at the beginning of the 1st Millennium BC. The Dark Ages and the Homeric World.

2.- Birth and development of the State in Greece: ethnos and polis.

3.- The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece I: The Stasis and the Greek Colonization. Tyrants and Lawgivers.

4.- The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece II: Sparta and Athens.

5.- The Polis in the Classical Period. The Greco-Persian Wars. Democracy and Imperialism in Classical Athens. The Peloponnesian War.

6.- The decline of the classical polis in the 4th century BC. The Struggle for Hegemony. The rise of Macedonia and the League of Corinth..

7.- Hellenistic Greece. Alexander the Great. Hellenistic Kingdoms. Leagues and cities.



*Note: This is the basic list of theoretical content, which can be modified throughout the course.

1. FACE TEACHING: In the classes, master teaching will alternate with comments of historical texts, iconography, inscriptions and maps, all of them related to the teacher's presentation. In these comments the student is required to intervene actively individuallt or in groups and always guided by the teacher. This activity implies that absenteeism is very negatively reflected in the final mark.



In the face-to-face classes, the capacity for autonomous concentration and teamwork will be enhanced.

The students will thus materialize the following learning results: LR3; LR5; LR6 y LR7.



2. AUTONOMOUS ACADEMIC WORKS:

The students will also make written works and presentations based on primary and secondary sources relating to specific sections of the course contents.

In these works the correction of spelling, syntax and written expression, as well as the property of bibliographic citations will be taken into account. In submissions, the transmission effort will be assessed.

For those works the use of the Koldo Mitxelena Library is mandatory.

Plagiarism is considered one the worst lack of university ethics, its detection will be judged accordingly.



Thanks to these works, the students will thus materialize the following learning results: LR1; LR2; LR4.



3. TUTORIALS: Individual tutoring could be also be done through the digital platform eGela.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 50
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 50

1. THE CONTINUED EVALUATION SYSTEM consists of two parts:



1.1. Classroom practices.



Evaluation criteria: attentive attendance in classes, expository clarity in team comments, written work and presentations. Precise use of the historical concepts learned.



Final grade percentage: 50%.



1.2. Final written test

The subject will cover the theoretical aspects and the mandatory readings specified in the student guide.



Evaluation criteria: Level of understanding of the contents and ability to synthesize; expository clarity and organization of concepts; ability to order and establish relationships between various historical concepts.



Final grade percentage: 50%.



To pass the subject, it would be necessary to pass both the practical part and the final written test independently.





2. FINAL EVALUATION SYSTEM



Student Evaluation Regulations. EHAA 201 7-03-1 3

Article 8:

3-. In any case, students will have the right to be evaluated through the final evaluation system, regardless of whether or not they have participated in the continuous evaluation system. To do this, students must submit in writing to the teaching staff responsible for the subject the waiver of continuous evaluation, for which they will have a period of 9 weeks for quarterly subjects and 18 weeks for annual subjects, counting from the beginning of the year. semester or course respectively, in accordance with the center's academic calendar. The teaching guide for the subject may establish a longer deadline.



The student who has opted for the final evaluation system, or who throughout the course has waived continuous evaluation, in accordance with the provisions of the EHU/UPV regulations, will be evaluated by 100% of the grade based on the following criteria:



Written test, for 100% of the grade:

The subject will cover the theoretical aspects and the mandatory readings specified in the student guide.

Evaluation criteria: Level of understanding of the contents and ability to synthesize; expository clarity and organization of concepts; ability to order and establish relationships between various historical concepts.



Following the protocol on academic ethics and prevention of dishonest or fraudulent practices of the UPV/EHU, if fraud, copying, plagiarism or similar activity is detected in any of the aforementioned exercises, the exercise will be: Qualified as failed (0, 0) and, where appropriate, the request to open a disciplinary file.



REGULATIONS IN CASE OF RESIGNATION:

In accordance with the Regulations governing the Evaluation of students in official UPV/EHU Degree Degrees: Article 12, 2.- «In the case of continued evaluation, if the weight of the final test is greater than 40% of the grade of the subject, it will be enough to not appear in said final test so that the final grade of the subject is not presented or not presented.

Following the Regulations for the Evaluation of the History Degree (article 9), students who do not pass the subject in the ordinary call, regardless of the evaluation system that has been chosen, will have the right to take the exams and evaluation activities that make up the final evaluation test of the extraordinary call.



The evaluation of the subjects in the extraordinary calls will be carried out exclusively through the final evaluation system.



The final evaluation test of the extraordinary call will consist of as many exams and evaluation activities as are necessary to be able to evaluate and measure the defined learning results, in a manner comparable to how they were evaluated in the ordinary call. The positive results obtained by the students during the course may be preserved. In the case of having obtained negative results through the continuous evaluation carried out during the course, these results cannot be maintained for the extraordinary call, in which the students will be able to obtain 100% of the grade.



Thus, students must carry out the following exercises:



Written test, for 50% of the grade:

The subject will cover the theoretical aspects and the mandatory readings specified in the student guide.

Evaluation criteria: Level of understanding of the contents and ability to synthesize; expository clarity and organization of concepts; ability to order and establish relationships between various historical concepts.



Practical exercises, for 50% of the grade.

Evaluation criteria: expository clarity and oratorical ability; correct use of historical concepts.



The same criteria are maintained as in the ordinary call in the event that students opt for the final evaluation, that is, the written test would cover 100% of the grade.



To waive the extraordinary call, it will be enough to not appear for it.

To give up the special call will be enough not to be present on the examination day.

1. The texts, maps, organization charts and schedules commented on in the classroom will be available via e-Gela.

2. The following Internet addresses are mandatory for consultation:
-Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper (para textos en versión original con su traducción al inglés)
-Ancient History Maps: https://www.ancient.eu/map (para mapas)
-Classical Art Research Centre: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm (para iconografía)
- Itinera electronica: http://agoraclass.fltr.ucl.ac.be/concordances/intro.htm
- Hodoi elektronikai: http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Hodoi/concordances/intro.htm

3. The following manual is recommended:
IRIARTE, Ana, 2011, Historiografía y mundo griego, Bilbao.

Basic bibliography

-AUSTIN, M. & VIDAL-NAQUET,P., 1972, Economía y sociedad en la antigua Grecia, Barcelona (1986).

-BARCELÓ, P. & HERNÁNDEZ DE LA FUENTE, D., 2015, Breve historia política de la Grecia clásica, Salamanca.

-DEGER-JALKOTZKY, S. et al., 2006, Ancient Greece: from the Mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer, Edinburgh.

-DÍAZ FERNÁNDEZ, A., 2023, Después de Mantinea: el mundo griego y Oriente ante el ascenso de Macedonia, Barcelona.

-ECHEVARRÍA, F. et al, 2022, Jerjes contra Grecia : la Segunda Guerra Médica, 2500 años después, Barcelona.

-GÓMEZ ESPELOSIN, F.J., 2011, Historia de Grecia en la Antigüedad, Madrid.

-IRIARTE, Ana, 2020, Feminidades y convivencia política en la antigua Grecia, Madrid.

-KAGAN, D. & VIGGIANO, G.F., 2013, Men of bronze: hoplite warfare in Ancient Greece, Princeton.

-LAZAR, L., 2023,Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC. Oxford.

-OSBORNE, R., 1996, Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC. Oxford.

-RAAFLAUB, K.A. et al., 2007, Origins of democracy in ancient Greece, University of California Press.

-RHODES, P. J., 2006, A History of the Classical Greek World, 478–323 BC, Oxford

-RUIPÉREZ, M.S. & MELENA, J.L., 1990, Los griegos micénicos, Madrid.

-THONEMANN, P., 2015, The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources, Cambridge.

-THONEMANN, P., 2016, The Hellenistic Age, Oxford

-VERNANT, J.-P. (ed.), 1991, El hombre griego, Madrid (1993).

-WALBANK, F.W. et al., 1992, El mundo Helenístico, Madrid (2012).

In-depth bibliography

-AAVV, Cerámica e imágenes de la Grecia clásica, 1994, Publicaciones del MAN.
-BOARDMAN, J. et al., 1982-, The Cambridge ancient history VII-1: The Hellenistic World, Cambridge.
-BRIANT, P. - LÉVÊQUE, P., 1995, Le monde grec aux temps classiques, t. 1, Paris, P. U. E.
-BRUIT-ZAIDMAN, Louise & SCHMITT-PANTEL, Pauline, 1989, Religion in the ancient Greek city, Cambridge.
-CABANES, P., 1995, Le monde hellénistique de la mort d'Alexandre à la paix d'Apamée, Paris, Coll. Nouvelle histoire de l’Antiquité, vol. 4, Éd. du Seuil.
-CANFORA, L., 2011, El mundo de Atenas, Barcelona (2014).
-CARLIER, P., 1999, Le IVe siècle grec jusqu'à la mort d'Alexandre, Paris, Points-Seuil, Nouvelle histoire de l'Antiquité 3.
-CARTLEDGE, P. (et al.), 1999, Sparta: new perspectives, Duckwoth.
-CARTLEDGE, P., 2007, Alejandro Magno. La búsqueda de un pasado desconocido, Barcelona, Ariel.
-DOMÍNGUEZ MONEDERO, A., 1991, La polis y la expansión colonial griega. Siglos VIII-VI, Madrid.
-FINLEY, M.I., 1959, The world of Odysseus, Meridian Books.
-FORNIS, C., 2003, Esparta. Historia, sociedad y cultura de un mito historiográfico,
Barcelona, Crítica.
-GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ, M. 2024,La lágrima de Jantipa : Los filósofos y las mujeres en la Grecia antigua, Madrid.
-GSCHNITZER, F., 1987, Historia social de Grecia, Madrid, Akal.
-HALL, E., 2020, Los griegos antiguos, Barcelona, Anagrama.
-HUMBERT, M., 1984, Institutions politiques et sociales de l'Antiquité, Paris, Précis Dalloz.
-IRIARTE, Ana, 2006, Teatro y democracia: la era de Pericles, Madrid.
-IRIARTE, Ana, 2011, Historiografía y mundo griego, Bilbao, UPV/EHU.
-LÉVY, Ed., 1995, La Grèce au Ve siècle de Clisthène à Socrate, Paris, Seuil, coll. «Points Histoire/ Nouvelle histoire de l'Antiquité».
-LORAUX, N., 1993, The children of Athena: athenian ideas about citizenship and the division between sexes, Princeton.
-MITCHELE, G. - L.-RHODES, P. J. (ed.), 1997, The development of the polis in archaic Greece, Londres, Routledge.

Journals

ARyS. Antigüedad, Religión y Sociedad (UC3M)
Complutum (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Cuadernos de Filología clásica (UCM)
Cuadernos de la Fundación Pastor
Emerita. Revista de Lingüística y Filología clásica (CSIC)
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II. Historia Antigua (UNED)
Gerión: revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI (UCM)
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
Habis (US)
Journal of Hellenistic Studies
Polis. Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad clásica (UAH)
Revista de Estudios Clásicos (Sociedad española de Estudios clásicos)
Studia Historica. Historia Antigua: revistas.usal.es/index.php/0213-2052/index
Tempus. Revista de actualización científica sobre el Mundo clásico.
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Veleia. Revista de Prehistoria, Hª Antigua, Arqueología y Filología Clásicas (UPV/EHU)

Web addresses

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/Antigua/
http://clasicas.usal.es/recursos/index.html
https://www.ehu.eus/ehg/klasikoak/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient
http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/chs_home Center for Hellenistic Studies.
http://www.culturaclasica.com
http://www.155.210.60.15/Hant/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html