ARTS AN CI E N T H I S TO RY Ancient History is about discovering the ancient civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome. Topics are as diverse and politics, mythology, religion, and law, understood through the study images, inscriptions, written history and evidence. To major in Ancient History, you’ll have needed to complete 12 junior units in Ancient History or History, or to have combined one junior unit in Ancient History with a junior unit from Philosophy, Archaeology, Latin or Ancient Greek. In second and third years, students will choose to specialise in a field, discipline, or a chronological period. Worth noting is that the Ancient History department only offers up to four senior units each year, which are repeated on a two or three year cycle. Like a box of chocolates. Ancient History is a subject that students generally feel pretty good about, but the survey suggested that there are bright and dark spots. The lecturers are mostly endorsed by the survey, with special mentions going particularly to Dr. Julia Kindt, who coordinates ANHS2622 ‘Herodotus and His World’, to Kathryn Welch for ANHS2610 ‘The Senate and the People of Rome’ and Fran Keeling for ANHS1601 ‘Greek and Roman Myth’. ANHS2618 ‘The Later Roman Empire’ did not score so highly based on our surveys, and one respondent in particular was very frustrated with the courses ANHS1601 ‘Foundations of Ancient Rome’ and ANHS1602: Greek and Roman Myth, as they felt that too much time was neither Greek or Roman mythology.
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