Questions of ancient history [LCLAB301]

Learning outcomes

- Develop critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills; - To acquire a broad general and interdisciplinary culture by opening up to other disciplines and understanding the links between them and history; - To develop specialist knowledge in areas of the historical discipline and to understand the issues of the discipline.

Objectives

- To show, from a concrete case, the specificities of the treatment of a question in the history of Antiquity in all its stages; - To deepen knowledge and refine techniques specific to Ancient History; - To enrich the students' ancient culture by providing knowledge and methods that can be transposed to their own fields of study; - Enriching the overall treatment with questions that are also asked in other periods.

Content

The course is dedicated to the treatment of an in-depth question concerning the economic, social, religious or cultural history of Greco-Roman antiquity. The topic chosen - which is generally the subject of ongoing research - demonstrates how, in Ancient History, the researcher is led to construct an enquiry, to ask appropriate questions of the available sources and to elaborate adequate answers. The emphasis is placed above all on the methodological aspect, so that historians, whatever their preferred period, can draw from the borderline cases offered by Ancient History elements of reflection for their own research.