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Ancient Civilisations 1A: Gender and Politics in
Classical Literature
Enrolment code: HTC101
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
First-year Ancient Civilisation units examine the civilisation of ancient Greece and Rome,
especially 5th-century Athens and Augustan Rome. The unit presents a wide variety of
texts (epic and didactic poetry, tragedy, philosophy) and concentrates on the
representation of women in Greek literature and responses to the Augustan revolution in
Roman Literature.
Staff: Assoc Prof PJ Davis (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
M.excl: HTC100
Assess: 2,000-word tutorial paper (50%), 3-hr exam (50%)
Required: [p/b] Homer, The Odyssey, tr Fagles, ISBN 0140268863
[p/b] Euripides I, Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, tr Grene and Lattimore, ISBN
0226307808
[p/b] Virgil, The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation, tr David West, ISBN 0140444572
[p/b] Ovid, The Erotic Poems, tr Green, ISBN 0140443603
[p/b] Aristophanes, Birds and Other Plays, tr Halliwell, ISBN 0192824082
Majors: Ancient Civilisations
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Ancient Civilisations 1B: Introduction to Greek and
Roman History
Enrolment code: HTC102
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
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Examines the economic, political and social history of the Greek and Roman societies with
particular attention to the development of empire and imperial ideology. The approach is
primarily through literary sources in translation, although other types of evidence are
introduced when relevant.
Staff: Dr PA Gallivan (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
M.excl: HTC100
Assess: 2,000-word tutorial paper (50%), 3-hr exam (50%)
Required: [p/b] Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, tr Warner, ISBN 0140440399
[p/b] Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, tr Scott-Kilvert, ISBN
0140441026
[p/b] Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, tr Scott-Kilvert, ISBN
0140444483
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, tr Graves, ISBN 0140440720
Majors: Ancient Civilisations
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Pursuit of Empire: Philip, Alexander and Rome
Enrolment code: HTC200/300
Offered: Hbt: sem 2, Ltn: sem 2 [by video-link]
Special note: may be taken as a History unit
Unit description:
Concentrates on the rise of Macedon and its expansion under King Philip II and his son
Alexander the Great. The unit examines the means employed to acquire and maintain
empire and gives special attention to the life and conquests of Alexander. It also treats the
rise of Rome as an imperial power tracing its ambitions down to c. 146 BC. The approach
is primarily through the major literary sources for the period but additional evidence from
numismatic and epigraphic material is introduced where relevant.
Staff: Dr P Burton
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
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Required: Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander, ISBN 0140442537
Plutarch, Age of Alexander, ISBN 0140442863
Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander, ISBN 0140444122
Livy, War with Hannibal, ISBN 014044145X
Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean, ISBN 0140443185
Plutarch, Makers of Rome, ISBN 0140441518
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Roman Republic 133–31 BC
Enrolment code: HTC201/301
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as a History unit
Unit description:
Covers the Roman Republic from the period of Roman expansion in the Mediterranean to
the end of the civil wars. The unit will concentrate on the political and social structures
underlying this process, with particular emphasis on the Roman aristocracy, the
individuals and forces which led to the fall of the Republic.
Staff: Dr PA Gallivan
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: Appian, The civil War, ISBN 0140445099
Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman Republic, ISBN 0140440844
Sallust, Jurgurthine War, and consiparacy of Catiline, ISBN 0140441328
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Roman Empire: Tiberius to Hadrian
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Enrolment code: HTC202/302
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as a History unit
Unit description:
Examines the institutions, organisation and society of the Roman Empire during the first
century AD to the beginning of the second century. The approach to the period will be
primarily through literary sources in translation, including especially Tacitus and
Suetonius.
Staff: Dr PA Gallivan
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam in June (50%)
Required: Pliny, Letters of Pliny the Younger, tr Radice, ISBN 0140441271
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, tr Graves, ISBN 0140440720
Tacitus, Complete Works of Tacitus, tr Church and Brodribb, ISBN 0075536390
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Roman Imperial Society
Enrolment code: HTC203/303
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as a History unit
Unit description:
Deals with the social, economic and administrative structure of the Roman imperial
system during its full period of development from the end of the first century to the
mid-third century AD. The unit concentrates on topics such as social structure, slavery, the
role of cities, agriculture, the Roman imperial army, and elite careers. The approach is
thematic and does not include a continuous narrative of historical events. The sources
used will be predominantly documentary, including inscriptions, coins and, where
appropriate, archaeological material, but will also include a wide range of literary sources.
Staff: Dr PA Gallivan
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Teaching pattern: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%) 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: Lewis N & Meyer R, Roman Civilization: Selected Readings, ISBN 0231071337
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, tr. Green P, ISBN 0140447040
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Uncovering the Past
Enrolment code: HTC204/304
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as a History or Tourism unit
Unit description:
Examines the process of Greek and Roman archaeology as well as the various meanings
invested in the material remains through the ages. Greco-Roman styles have had a
significant impact on the art of Europe and beyond, often denoting cultural, imperial and
intellectual dominance. The influence of antiquity has involved both the transferral of
artefacts from their place of origin, as well as the conscious adoption of classical aesthetics.
This unit investigates the successive waves of archaeologists, tourists, plunderers and
architects who have sorted through the rubble, and asks: why did they do it? what were
they looking for?
Staff: Dr R Evans
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
M.excl: HTC208/308
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam
(40%)
Required: Course reader available from School of History and Classics
Majors: Tourism
Courses: [R3A] [R3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Love and Politics in Augustan Literature
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Enrolment code: HTC205/305
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as an English or Women’s Studies unit
Unit description:
Examines the responses of major writers (Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid) to
Augustus’ transformation of the Roman state, concentrating on their reaction to the
emperor’s moral and social program and increasingly autocratic government. A wide
variety of texts will be studied, including love elegy, didactic, lyric and narrative poetry.
Staff: Assoc Prof P Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or English
M.excl: HTC222/322
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Required: [p/b] Virgil, Eclogues and Georgics, tr Day Lewis, ISBN 0192816438
[p/b] Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes, tr West, ISBN 0192832468
[p/b] Propertius, The Poems, tr Lee, ISBN 0192831984
[p/b] Ovid, Fasti, tr Boyle, ISBN 0140446907
Majors: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Later Roman Empire
Enrolment code: HTC206/306
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Special note: may be taken as a History unit
Unit description:
Deals with selected aspects of the history of the Roman Empire during the 3rd and 4th
centuries AD. Particular attention is given to the following topics: the ‘crisis’ of the
3rd-century; Diocletian; Constantine; the rise of Christianity; religion and society; theories
of decline and fall. The source material used is based on both literary and documentary
evidence. Materials not readily available will be supplied as required.
Staff: Dr PA Gallivan
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Monuments of Rome: Image and Ideology
Enrolment code: HTC207/307
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as a History unit; recommended as an elective for BTourism students
Unit description:
Introduces students to the major buildings and monumental structures of ancient Rome
from the origins of the city to the Late Empire, relating them to historical and cultural
context. The unit aims to give students an introduction to the major artistic movements of
ancient Rome, to analyse the relation of monuments to social and historical events and to
read material culture as an index of self-perception and representation.
Staff: Dr J Dietrich
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations
Assess: 3,000 words written work (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: Pollitt JJ, The Art of Rome c. 753 BC–AD337, Sources and Documents, ISBN
052127365X
Recommend: Ramage NH & A, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine, ISBN 1856692124
Majors: Tourism
Courses: [R3A] [R3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Classical Epic and Novel
Enrolment code: HTC210/310
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
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Special note: may be taken as a English unit
Unit description:
In the classical world there were two major kinds of fiction, epic poetry, the most
prestigious of all literary genres, and the prose novel, the least esteemed and the most
popular of forms. The unit examines two epics and two novels: Homer’s Iliad, the first
work of the western canon, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a narratological tour de force which
encompasses the entire world of Graeco-Roman mythology, Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, a
Roman novel of the second century CE which tells of its narrator’s transformation into an
ass and Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon, a Greek novel of the same period which
tells of the adventures of a pair of young lovers and their eventual marriage.
Staff: Assoc Prof PJ Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: [p/b]Homer, Iliad, tr Fagles, ISBN 0140445927
[p/b] Ovid, Metamorphoses, tr R Humphries, ISBN 0253200016
[p/b] Apuleius, The Golden Ass, tr Kenney, ISBN 0140435905
[p/b] Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cliophon, tr Whitmarsh, ISBN 0192804278
Majors: English
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Greek Tragedy
Enrolment code: HTC211/311
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as a English unit
Unit description:
Consists of a study of major tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Particular
attention is paid to the development of the tragic form and the change in the nature and
characteristic concerns of tragedy in 5th-century Athens.
Staff: Assoc Prof PJ Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
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Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: [p/b] Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus
Bound, eds Grene and Lattimore, ISBN 0226307948
[p/b] Aeschylus, Oresteia, tr R Lattimore, ISBN 0226307786
[p/b] Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, eds Grene and Lattimore,
ISBN 0226307921
[p/b] Sophocles, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, eds Grene and Lattimore, ISBN
0226307867
[p/b] Euripides, Cyclops, Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen, eds Grene and Lattimore, ISBN
0226307816
[p/b] Euripides, Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, eds Grene and Lattimore, ISBN
0226307840
Majors: English
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Classical Tragedy: Euripides and Beyond
Enrolment code: HTC213/313
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be studied as an English unit
Unit description:
Examines the handling of Greek myth in Euripides, Seneca and Racine. The unit starts
with a number of fifth century Greek tragedies which have proved particularly influential
in European culture and then examines how they have been rewritten by tragedians in the
classical tradition.
Staff: Assoc Prof PJ Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Grene D & Lattimore R (eds),
ISBN 0226307808
Euripides, Hecuba, Adromache, Trojan Women, Ion, Grene D & Lattimore R (eds), ISBN
0226307824
Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia, tr Watling, ISBN 0140441743
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Racine, Andromache, Britannicus, Berenice, tr Cairncross, ISBN 0140441956
Racine, Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah, tr Cairncross, ISBN 0140441220
Majors: English
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Latin 1
Enrolment code: HTC215/315
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Special note: may be taken as a English unit
Unit description:
As a level 200/300 unit, has the same objectives as HTL100.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 4x1-hr lectures weekly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
M.excl: HTL100 and HTC315
Assess: weekly language and unseen exercises (40%), 2x3-hr exams in Nov (60%)
Required: Jones P & Sidwell K, Reading Latin, 2 vols, ISBN 0521286239 & 0521286220
Majors: English
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Enrolment code: HTC221/321
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as a History or Gender Studies unit
Unit description:
Approaches the history of women in the ancient Mediterranean world through diverse
sources including literary, historical, medical and legal texts, letters, inscriptions and
material culture. The unit looks at the evidence on women from archaic Greece to the
Roman Empire, concentrating on issues of legal rights, class status, gender roles, and
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religious participation, and examining expectations and representations of women in a
variety of ancient cultures. The unit also raises such questions as: What is women’s
history? Why is it important to study it? How do we deal with the overwhelming extent of
male-authored texts as opposed to the small number of female voices? What difference can
class and ethnicity make?
Staff: Dr R Evans
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations
M.excl: HAF221/321
Assess: 3,000 words written work (50%) 2-hr exam (50%)
Required: Lefkowitz MR & Fant MB Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in
Translation, Duckworth, 1988
A class reader to be obtained from the School.
Majors: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Greek and Roman Mythology
Enrolment code: HTC223/323
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: may be taken as an English unit
Unit description:
Is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and
ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives
and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the depiction of the gods and
heroes as a mirror of social and political change, and addresses the functions of classical
myth in modern society.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%); 2-hr end-of-sem exam (40%), tutorial participation (10%)
Required: Hesiod, Theogony andWorks and Days, tr West ML, ISBN 0192839411
The Homeric Hymns, tr Athanassakis A, ISBN 0801817927
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Aeschylus, Oresteia, tr Lattimore R, ISBN 0226307840
Euripides, Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchae, tr Grene D & Lattimore R, ISBN
0226307840
Ovid, Metamorphoses, tr Humphries R, ISBN 0253200016
Livy, The Early History of Rome, tr De Selincourt A, ISBN 0140441042
Majors: English
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Classics 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HTC400/401
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Special note: full-time students enrol in HTC400 (100%), part-time students in HTC401 (50%)
Unit description:
Consists of two semester-length units of coursework on topics to be determined plus a
special reading course and a thesis.
Staff: Assoc Prof PJ Davis (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (26 wks) and 2x1-hr reading classes weekly (13 wks)
in one semester.
Prereq: major in Ancient Civilisations (including Latin 1 – HTL or equivalent) OR a Major
in Latin and satisfaction of the Faculty GPA
Assess: essays as prescribed in each unit of coursework, 3-hr exam in June, 3-hr exam in
Nov, 3-hr exam in either June or Nov, a thesis (maximum 15,000 words)
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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