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Pompeii: History And Society

Key information

  • Module code:

    5AACHI45

  • Level:

    5

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

The surviving buildings, monuments, inscriptions and documents from Pompeii and Herculaneum provide unique information about a wide range of issues, including local administration, social structures and relations, economy and production, public and private art and architecture, the family, gender and sexuality, literacy, and health and nutrition.

The aim of the course is to use the evidence from the Vesuvian towns to draw a comprehensive and detailed picture of public and private life in a Roman town. In doing so it will also examine the methodological issues involved in studying social history on the basis of primary, non-literary sources, which comprise both textual and non-textual material. The course will therefore also examine the destruction of the sites as well as their excavation history.

Assessment details

1 x 2,500 word essay (100%)

Teaching pattern

10 x 2-hour lectures (weekly)

Department

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