Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations

Catalog description

The ancient Mediterranean world was far more than Greco-Roman civilization. The ancient Mediterranean was home to one of history’s first literate urbanized societies (pharaonic Egypt), ancient mariners reaching as far as Scandinavia and southern Africa (Carthage), a kingdom and people at the origins of ancient monotheism (Judea), the ancient society whose religious and architectural traditions shaped those of ancient Rome (Etruria), and many other rich and interesting cultures from the British Isles to the Horn of Africa. This course surveys the history of a selection of one or more of these societies to give students a sense of the complexity of the non-Greco-Roman ancient Mediterranean.