CLASS 4645

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  • Schedule of Classes - October 31, 2025 7:07PM EDT

CLASS 4645
Ancient Empires: From Persia to Rome, 550 BCE to 14 CE

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This seminar explores how ancient empires developed and were administered as well as how the experience of empire in the modern world and the writing of its history in the ancient world are intertwined. Which ancient empires receive scholarly attention? How are those empires’ histories told—and do those histories change when we reflect on lessons from modern colonialism? In this course, we look at the Achaemenids and the Seleucids in Western and Central Asia as well as Carthage in Northern Africa and Western Europe to situate Classical Athens and the Roman empire within the history of ancient empires in the latter half of the first millennium BCE. Major themes will include ethnicity and identity among imperial elites, citizenship as power, and economic institutions as means of territorial control.


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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4345, NES 4345

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17843 CLASS 4645   SEM 101

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    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Prussin, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17844 CLASS 4645   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies