Unit Code:	ANG1AMC
Unit Short Title:	ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE - THE GREEK ACHIEVEMENT
Credit Points:	15
Unit Description:	In this subject students are introduced to the diversity of the ancient Greek achievement, which has exercised a fundamental and continuing influence upon later European literature and culture. Several of the following aspects are treated, usually focusing on material from the 5th century BC. Literature of various genres (epic, tragedy, comedy, etc), philosophy, art, history, architecture, religion, mythology. A variety of sources are treated to enable students to build up a picture of Greek society as a whole. Texts are read in translation and students are encouraged to consider certain questions of method, (for example, historical versus literary evidence) in dealing with the study of a culture removed in time and nature from our own.
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this subject students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 1,000-word essay	20
one 1,500-word essay	40
one 1.5-hour examination	40

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	The Wasps; the Poet and the Women; the Frogs,	Aristophanes	trans. D. Barrett, Penguin 1964
Prescribed	The Iliad,	Homer	trans. R. Fagels, Penguin
Prescribed	The Persians,	Aeschylus	trans. Vellacott, Penguin
Prescribed	The Peloponnesian war,	Thucydides	trans. W. Blanco, Norton Critical Edition 1998
Prescribed	The Bacchae and other plays,	Euripides	Penguin
Prescribed	The Republic,	Plato	Penguin

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Despina	Michael	BUNDOORA	Y