Postgraduate Course: The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest (online) (PGHC11500)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the history and archaeology of the city of Carthage from its Phoenician foundation in the 9th century BCE through to the end of Roman Carthage in the late 7th century CE. The course will explore some of the current areas of research related to Punic and Roman Carthage including the rise of the Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean, comparative colonization between Greeks and Phoenicians, Punic identity, the rise of a Carthaginian Empire, and the conflict and contact between Carthage and Rome. |
| Course description |
This course explores the history and archaeology of the city of Carthage from its Phoenician foundation in the 9th century BCE through to the end of Roman Carthage in the late 7th century CE. The course will explore some of the current areas of research related to Punic and Roman Carthage including the rise of the Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean, comparative colonization between Greeks and Phoenicians, Punic identity, the rise of a Carthaginian Empire, and the conflict and contact between Carthage and Rome. The Punic wars, the fall of Carthage, and the rise of the Roman city will also be covered. We will also look at evidence for the Punic diaspora and for the survival of Punic culture into the Roman period, specifically in the areas of language and religion. The course will explore the sources for the study of Carthage, both Greek and Roman, and where possible Punic, including literary evidence, inscriptions, burials, statuary and temples. Focus will be given to an understanding of the city in its many incarnations and the transformations that have shaped its history. As well, students will become aware of the historiography of the study of Carthage over the last 200 years and the development of Punic studies as an academic discipline.
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate in forum posts and coursework an understanding of the varied complexity of the large body of evidence for Carthage and Carthaginian history in both a literary and a material context;
- demonstrate in forum posts and coursework an understanding of how the study of Carthage and Punic culture has advanced in recent scholarship;
- demonstrate in forum posts and coursework an understanding of the history of Carthage and its importance for the political, social and cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, as well as the theoretical implications for the study of ancient concepts of identity and ethnicities;
- demonstrate in forum posts and coursework an ability to use critically a variety of different methodologies and approaches to this body of material gained from a thorough interaction with scholarship and primary materials.
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Reading List
Ameling, W. (2013) 'Carthage', in P. Bang and W. Scheidel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford: 361-382.
Docter, R. et al (2015) Carthage: Fact and Myth. Leiden.
Docter, R. et.al. (2007) 'Punic Carthage: two decades of archaeological investigations', in José Luis López Castro (ed.), Las ciudades fenicio-púnicas en el Mediterráneo occidental. Almería: 85-104.
Erskine, A. (2013) 'Encountering Carthage: mid Republican Rome and Mediterranean culture', in A. Gardner, E. Herring and K Lomas (eds.), Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World. London: 113-129.
Gruen, E. (2011) Rethinking the Other in Antiquity. Princeton.
Hoyos, D. (ed.) (2011) A Companion to the Punic Wars. Oxford.
Lancel, S. (1995) Carthage, London.
MacDonald, E. (2015) Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life. London.
Miles, R. (2010) Carthage Must Be Destroyed: the Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilization. London.
Rakob, F (2000) 'The making of Augustan Carthage'; in Elizabeth Fentress (ed.), Romanization and the City. JRA Suppl. 38, Portsmouth, R.I.: 73-82.
Xella, P. et al (2013) 'Phoenician bones of contention', Antiquity 87: 1199-120.
Xella, P. (2012-2013) 'Introduction: Tophet as a historical problem', Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 29-30: iii-x. |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sandra Bingham
Tel: (0131 6)50 6689
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