FF FBDSpH Ancient History
Name in Czech: Dějiny starověku
Bachelor's full-time major, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FF B-DST_ Ancient History
Bachelor's full-time major, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FF B-DST_ Ancient History
Study-related information
- Parts of the final state examination and its contentThe bachelor's state exam is oral. Topics, knowledge of which is required, are posted on a website of the Department of Classical Studies (in Czech):
http://classics.phil.muni.cz/studium/pro-studenty.
At the bachelor's exam, knowledge of rather encyclopedic character is required. Students draw four questions from the announced sets of questions that include the introduction into Ancient History studies, the history of the ancient Near East and Egypt, the history of ancient Greece and Rome and Late Antiquity.
The bachelor's thesis defense is also a part of the exam. Students present main ideas of their thesis and answer questions included in the opponents' reviews and in following discussion. - Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended thesesSuggestions of topics:
The legislative activity of the emperors Maiorianus and Anthemius
Mythical nations in the works of ancient geographers and historians on China
Defended theses (selected examples):
The revolt of Hermenegild in the light of contemporary sources
(https://is.muni.cz/th/110131/ff_b_b1)
Renovatio imperii - the beginning of the restoration of Byzantine hegemony over the lost provinces of the Western Roman Empire - Vandalic war
(https://is.muni.cz/th/382786/ff_b)
The research navigation of Pytheas from Massalia in the younger ancient sources
(https://is.muni.cz/th/427968/ff_b)
Spectaculum Magnum: Private and professional life of gladiators in ancient Rome
(https://is.muni.cz/th/413423/ff_b)
Selected aspects of the description of Thracians in the works of Greek writers
(https://is.muni.cz/th/428617/ff_b)
The crime of insulting the state in the Roman Republic
(https://is.muni.cz/th/437850/ff_b_a2)
Women and sport in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(https://is.muni.cz/th/f890y/J._Kouril_BP_Zeny_a_sport_v_recko-rimske_antice.pdf?info=1)
Importance of the Roman army auxiliary units during the period of the early and high principate
(https://is.muni.cz/th/l5sjy/)
Reconstruction of paleoenvironmental conditions of ancient Eastern Mediterranean and influence of geography on Greek colonisation
(https://is.muni.cz/th/gnf2b/)
Military use of elephants till AD
(https://is.muni.cz/th/xa475/)
Recommended progress through the study plan
Společný univerzitní základ (15 kr.)
Compulsory courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:DSBcA01 | Introduction to the Study of Ancient History | zk | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:DSBcA02 | Proseminar in Ancient History | z | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:DSBcA03 | History of the Ancient Near East I | zk | 3+3 | 1 | P |
FF:DSBcA22 | History of the Ancient Near East II | zk | 3+3 | 2 | P |
FF:DSBcA05 | History of Ancient Greece I | zk | 3+3 | 2 | P |
FF:DSBcA07 | History of Ancient Greece II | zk | 3+3 | 3 | P |
FF:DSBcA09 | History of Ancient Rome I | zk | 3+3 | 4 | P |
FF:DSBcA11 | History of Ancient Rome II | zk | 3+3 | 5 | P |
FF:DSBcA13 | Intermediate Period between Antiquity and the Middle Ages | zk | 4+3 | 6 | P |
FF:DSBcA15 | Interpretative Seminar I | z | 4 | 5 | Z |
FF:DSBcA16 | Interpretative Seminar II | z | 4 | 6 | Z |
FF:DSBcA24 | Topography of Ancient Greece | zk | 4 | 1 | - |
FF:DSBcA25 | Topography of Ancient Rome and Italy | zk | 4 | 4 | - |
FF:DSBcA26 | History of Ancient Law I | z | 2 | 3 | - |
FF:DSBcA27 | History of Ancient Law II | zk | 4 | 4 | - |
FF:DSBcA28 | History of Ancient Historiography | zk | 3+1 | 1 | Z |
75 credits |
Selective courses
Pramenný jazyk
Studenti studující podle dvouoborového plánu s Dějinami starověku jako hlavním oborem (maior) mají povinnost absolvovat 4 semestry jednoho pramenného jazyka. Jazyk volí podle svého zaměření z dvojice latina - klasická řečtina.
Latina
Klasická řečtina
Písemnictví, náboženství a filozofie starověku
Studenti si vybírají předměty z bloků Písemnictví, náboženství a filozofie starověku a/nebo Širší kulturně-historicko-archeologický kontext dle vlastního zaměření v celkové hodnotě minimálně 4 kredity.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:KR021 | The Beginnings of Greek Philosohy: Presocratics and Sophists | z | 4 | 3 | - |
FF:KR022 | Classical Greek Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJ401 | Classical Mythology: Gods | k | 3 | 1 | - |
FF:LJ402 | Classical Mythology: Heroic myths | k | 3 | 2 | - |
FF:MED05 | Overview of Classical Greek Literature | k | 4 | 3 | - |
FF:MED06 | Overview of Classical Roman Literature | zk | 4 | - | - |
FF:RLBcB023 | Ancient Near Eastern Religions | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:RLBcB206 | Roman Religion | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:RLBcB238 | Greek Religion | k | 4 | 2 | - |
34 credits |
Širší kulturně-historicko-archeologický kontext
Studenti si vybírají předměty z bloků Písemnictví, náboženství a filozofie starověku a/nebo Širší kulturně-historicko-archeologický kontext dle vlastního zaměření v celkové hodnotě minimálně 4 kredity.
Nabídka předmětů vyučovaných externími odborníky (domácími nebo zahraničními) se pravidelně obměňuje.
Studijní soustředění
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:DSBcB22 | Intensive Study Course | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB35 | Autumn School of Roman Law | z | 4 | - | - |
8 credits |
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:DSBcB03 | Auxiliary Sciences of History in the Context of Ancient History | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB15 | Ancient Roman Family | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB19 | Trade in Antiquity | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB20 | The History of "Sport" in Antiquity I - Greece | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB21 | The History of "Sport" in Antiquity - Rome | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB24 | The Formation and Development of Cities in Antiquity | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB25 | Roman Art | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB26 | Health, Lifestyle and Medicine in Antiquity | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB27 | The Unrelenting World: Labour, Violence, and Death in Ancient Roman Society | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB31 | Oriental and Mystery Cults in the Ancient Mediterranean | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB32 | Late Ancient and Early Christian Culture | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB33 | History of the Jewish People in Antiquity | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB34 | The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB39 | An Expedition in the Footsteps of Alexander the Great's Campaign | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB40 | Ancient Sparta | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB42 | From Cyrus to Alexander: through the History of Achaemenid Persia | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB44 | - | - | - | - | |
FF:DSBcB46 | - | - | - | - | |
FF:DSBcB47 | Empires along the Silk Road | z | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSBcB48 | - | - | - | - | |
FF:DSMB01 | History of Ancient Warfare - Greece | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSMB24 | History of Ancient Warfare - Eastern Peoples | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:DSMB18 | Pseudo-History versus Science | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:KLA_004 | Greek Art I | zk | 3 | - | - |
FF:KLA_005 | Greek Art II | zk | 3 | - | - |
FF:KR007 | Reading Xenophon | k | 4 | 5 | - |
FF:KR010 | Reading Ancient Greek Texts | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:KR017 | Languages and Writing Systems of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece | k | 3 | 5 | - |
FF:KR018 | Women and Private Life in Ancient Greece | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:KR027 | Historical and Critical Introduction to the New Testament | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:KR030 | Magic in the Graeco-Roman World | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJ202 | Reading Seminar (Caesar) | k | 4+1 | - | - |
FF:LJ208 | Individual Reading of Sallust | k | 2 | - | - |
FF:LJ404 | Languages and Writing Systems of the Ancient Mediterranean (Italy) | k | 3 | - | - |
FF:LJ407 | The Arabian World in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages I | z | 3 | - | - |
FF:LJ408 | The Arabian World in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages II | k | 3 | - | - |
FF:LJ409 | Etique of the civilizations of Antiquity I | z | 3 | - | - |
FF:LJ410 | Etique of the civilizations of Antiquity II | k | 3 | - | - |
FF:LJ451 | Lectures by Czech and Foreign Experts | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:LJ453 | Expert lectures: Romanisation and Latinisation of the Roman Empire | k | 4 | - | - |
FF:MED55 | Geography of the Mediterranean | k | 3 | - | - |
FF:RLBcB041 | Biblical Archaeology | k | 4 | - | - |
146 credits |
Bakalářská práce (min. 10 kr.)
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:DSBcDI | Major (Diploma) B. A. Thesis Seminar I | z | 3 | 5 | P |
FF:DSBcDII | Major (Diploma) B. A. Thesis Seminar II | z | 7 | 6 | P |
FF:DSBcDipl | Bachelor’s Thesis | z | - | 6 | - |
10 credits |