Level of study Second Year Credit value 20 Semester Scheduled
2013-14, Usually 1 Pre-requisite modules none Other pre-
requisites none How did Athenian citizens think about their
world? This is the key question this module seeks to answer. It
focuses on Athenian citizens because they are the one group of
people in ancient Greece who left behind a significant body of
evidence. You will look at the evidence for ancient Athens,
evidence which includes a vast range of different genres: myths,
comic and tragic plays, history books, court room speeches,
philosophy and even medical texts. One of the things Athenians
spent a good deal of time thinking and writing about was how
they were different from non-citizens, defining themselves
against them. We will look, therefore, at how Athenians thought
about groups including: foreigners such as the Persians, We will
see that Athenian citizens used comparisons with these groups to
think about how they should behave socially, economically, even
sexually. Having established t